East Dedham is East Dedham and shouldn't be renamed Mother Brook

   I keep hearing this whole why are people calling East Dedham Mother Brook now and all this other foolishness. Truth be told I live in East Dedham and although Mother Brook is at the Charles River and the old Avery is the Mother Brook Art Studio the last I checked I never received any memo that said East Dedham was no longer East Dedham.
   I can understand why a small circle of the newer citizens who think they know what's best for us would want to clean up East Dedham's image, but reality is it is one of the poorer sections of Dedham, we have a few troublemakers, we're a little run down and we don't fit the image the town wants. Well on behalf of all the East Dedham residents I apologize that we aren't Wellesley like the rest of the town wants us to be. The last I checked I lived in Dedham. More specifically East Dedham. 
   Personally we'd all be better off if we concentrated on being the best Dedham we could be instead of being something we aren't. I am a direct descendant of the Fairbanks family, so Dedham means more to me than it does to most, it's part of my history and my families history and personally I'm sick and tired of some of the nonsensical things we do and if someone does decide to try to change East Dedham to Mother Brook be prepared for a backlash because we are proud folks and we know who were are. We didn't grow up with much and that made us grounded. We don't live in fantasy land we live in reality. 
   Reality in East Dedham is simple, we don't have a doctor or a Lawyer or a CPA on every street corner. We are a mix of professionals and blue collar people who work very hard for what we have in life. As far as I'm concerned we are East Dedham and will remain that way. That's who we are whether some people like it or not.