28 flavors, one talk

Historian Anthony Sammarco will present a program on Howard Johnson’s restaurants Feb. 29 at 2 p.m. at the Deacon Willard Lewis House. Howard Johnson opened his first restaurant in Quincy in the 1920s and turned it into a national chain with iconic orange roofs and 28 flavors of ice cream. There were two HoJo’s in Walpole, according to the Walpole Historical Society, sponsor of the talk. The Deacon Willard Lewis House is at 33 West St. - Johanna Seltz