Wishing you a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

A message from the Author:

Gardner has always been a special place of cooperation leading to great accomplishments. It began from tracts of land from four communities – Ashburnham, Westminster, Templeton, and Winchendon.

Gardner has had its tough times just like many other places. However, right now with a great public will of love and future-looking outlook, Gardner’s trajectory towards excellence is all but assured.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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Gardner Christmas Wish

Original Poem by Werner Poegel

The City was once a town to be sure

And its substance became an allure.

First settled sixty four years after 1700,

Land gifted by nearby towns kindred.

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Becoming as busy as a beehive

Incorporated thusly in 1785.

Twenty years more it only took

To become a great furniture nook.

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20 Chair Factories, 4 million chairs

Each with legs 4, like grizzly bears.

Successfully brought 5 Heywoods together

Fashioning furniture like birds of a feather.

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Tracking the time worked became an invention

Simplex Time Recorder industry convention.

Gardner home to those critically thinking,

Traditionally forward ideas in the making.

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As if nature itself knew City’s future

23 square miles measured for sure.

Named after a brave Colonel named Thomas,

A Gardner city in 1923 came to pass.

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It’s highest point is Reservoir Hill

New heights reaching ever still

Now 2 years from city centennial

So many projects on the window sill.

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Now sending its love to folks near and afar

Gardner, Chair City, holds all of you dear.

A family of peoples assembled in love

Wishes Merry Christmas to you from above.