From the event log · 2020

Food In a Box

Fresh produce boxes handed out in the first months of the pandemic.

Date
May 2, 2020
Time
12:00–2:00 PM
Place
679 White Street, Springfield
Format
No-contact pickup
Partners
Inter Produce · Dunn & Phillips

What happened

Six weeks into the Massachusetts shutdown, on Saturday, May 2, from 12 to 2 PM. Inter Produce supplied the food and Dunn & Phillips helped run it.

This is the earliest pandemic-era distribution we can date from a flyer.

We are still writing this one up

What we can source is above. The story is not. If you were there and can tell us how it went, or you have photographs, we would like to hear from you.

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Sources

Everything on this page traces back to one of these. Where a source is not public, we say so rather than leave the claim bare.

  1. Archived event flyerThe flyer for this event appears in the April 23, 2026 Wayback Machine capture of our previous website. The capture loads as one long page; the flyers are in the gallery near the bottom.