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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
Holy Cow! A River of Milk
The face of area dairy farming is represented by the Newmont Farm of Fairlee and the other two neighboring farms pictured below. Establishe...
Christmas Memories 1659-1959
Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" was first published in 1823 and is now more commonly known as "The Ni...
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...
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...
School Bells: Academies and Seminaries 1790's-1890's
From the earliest years of the Upper Valley, leaders of the towns felt that it was important to establish institutions for educating studen...
Wrong Side of the Law (Part One)
Counterfeiter William Warburton, nicknamed "Bristol Bill" operated out of a house in Groton. In 1849 he and his gang were arres...
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