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In Times Past
This blog highlights the history of the Upper Valley towns of Vermont and New Hampshire.
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Wed and Gone To Housekeeping
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...
Going to Summer Camp
Early in the 20th century train-loads of campers arrived in the Upper Valley for summer residential youth camps established by pioneers in...
October 1759 Rogers Rangers
Robert Rogers, known among the Abenakis as the White Devil was a skilled frontier fighter who led his Rangers against the native village o...
Let There Be Light: September 1897
Originally printed on September 19, 2007 Journal Opinion It was one of those fall evenings when the light faded early, predicting darker day...
Barn Dance Nights
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...
"No Rum for Me!"
This 19th century poster utilized the mother and child motif to drive home the benefits of making alcohol consumption illegal. A call f...
Local Libraries: Small Town Perfect
The quaint yet elegant George Peabody Library is named after the famous philantropist who gave it to the village of Post Mills. When it op...
Lost Golf Courses
Created in the early 1960s, Fairlee's 9-hole Bonnie Oakes Country Club operated for about 20 years (photo: Marge Smith). Dressed fo...
The French in Vermont: 400 years of history
In July 1609 Samuel de Champlain came to the area that would become Vermont. He visited the lake the natives called Bitawbagok , "th...
Wrong Side of the Law Part Three
The Orange County Courthouse in Chelsea was built in 1847 in the Greek Revival style by master builder Horace Carpenter. He also built th...
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