...y, for although it was the days of Medford's prosperity through her ship-building, it was also the time of thrift and economy over against the present-day extravagance and easy spending of money. Henry Richardson , called the Poet of the 1818 Club, read at one of the meetings a poem called Old Memories, in which he describes the changes he had seen in a long life. He touches upon one subject in these words:...