In Times Past

    By the time this column is printed, Spring will be on the calendar if not outside the door. This is the first of a two-part series on ho...

“We have come to respect the work of the men who created these old buildings of such excellent proportions and who placed their restraine...

In July 1609 Samuel de Champlain came to the area that would become Vermont. He visited the lake the natives called Bitawbagok , "th...

Robert Rogers, known among the Abenakis as the White Devil was a skilled frontier fighter who led his Rangers against the native village o...

Journal Opinion, July 1, 2020 WED AND SET TO GO: This mid 19th century couple are ready to go to housekeeping.  Local weddings at th...

Built in 1906, Densmore's Casino on Fairlee's Lake Morey featured dancing to named orchestras and a view of the late. It was desc...

Created in the early 1960s, Fairlee's 9-hole Bonnie Oakes Country Club operated for about 20 years (photo: Marge Smith). Dressed fo...

Early in the 20th century train-loads of campers arrived in the Upper Valley for summer residential youth camps established by pioneers in...

Steam locomotive pulls a single passenger car south out of the Bradford village station. It was not uncommon to have three trains each way...

Bradford Poor Farm residence during the early 1950s when it was the home of Harold and Alice Ames.  From 1852 to 1923, its 12 bedrooms house...