Below are the titles of the columns I have written since 2007 for the Journal Opinion. They are all posted on this blog. If there is one you want to read, go to the search bloc on the right side of page one and put in key word(s). The article should appear on the top of the second page. I have just finished throwing away 5 lg boxes of hand written notes and kept just the newspaper copy and one hard copy. Notice that 13 of the articles were reprinted in the Valley News, most of which had great illustrations by Shawn Braley.
1. Changing the Face of the Community (Architects) 10/20
2. Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes
(Local Artists) 6/2012
3. Send Out the Alarm (Attacks) 1/2011
4. Under the Auctioneer’s Hammer 9/2017
5. The Horseless Carriage Arrives
11/2017
6. Strike Up the Band 7/2007
7. Banking On That (Banks) 7/2014
8. Dance Night 8/2008
9. The Rise of Baseball 6/2022
10.There Is Nothing Like Baseball 8/2022
11.The Bayley-Hazen Road 7/2013
12.Pedaling Alone: Bicycle Ups and Downs
5/2017
13. Boundaries: May, 1933 5/2008
14. Building With Bricks 11/2016
15.Going to Summer Camp 7/2010
16.The Vulnerable Child 1/2022
17.Christmas Pageants, Prayer, Parties
and More 12/2022
18.Memories of Christmas 1659-1959 12/2008
19.Cooking Up a Holiday Storm 12/2017
20.The Best Christmas Gift Ever 12/2019
21.Christmas: How Sweet It Is 12/2021
22.Church, Town Disestablishmentarianism
6/2013
23.Charles Clark, the Oregon and Company
G 7/2017
24.Battle of Bull Run April 1861 4/2007
25. Antietam: A Most Bloody Day 9/2012 (Also Valley News)
26.Gettysburg: Furious Feld of Fire 6/2013
27.Wilderness of Woe (Battle of the
Wilderness) 4/2014
28.Cedar Creek: A Valley Victory 10/2014 (Also Valley News)
29.An Unending War (CW Veterans) 5/2015
30.Watching the Time: Clocks 12/2016
31.Common Land 6/2019 (Also Valley News)
32.Cool It (keeping Cool in the Past)
7/2022
33. Economic Workshop Paper on Communist
movement 7/1972
34.The Search of Something Different
(based on paper) 9/2020
35.BOOK 2: Roots of the Dairy Industry 6/2009
36.Damming the Falling Water 9/2010
37.Dancing in the Kitchen 4/2012 (Also
Valley News)
38.Decades of Change 1960-1964 11/2012
39.Decades of Change 1965-1969
2/2013
40.Decades of Change 1970-1974 5/2013
41.Decades of Change 1975-1979
9/2013
42.Decades of Change 1980-1984
11/2013
43.Decades of Change 1985-1989
1/2014
44.Decades of Change
1990-1994 6/2013
45.Decades of Change 1995-2000 8/2014
46.Dental Fads, Fancies and Facts 1/2016
47.What Ails You? (Doctors)
7/2012
48.Bad Dog, Good Dog 6/2018
49.Being 80: Still In the Game 9/2022
50.Caring for Yesterday’s Elders 12/2018
51.Election Patters: Made and
Broken 10/2012
52. September 1897 Introduction to Electricity 9/2007
53.Epidemics (Spanish Flu etc.) 11/2008
54.The River Crossings (Ferries)
10/2016 (Also Valley News)
55.Fires (Bradford: February 1883)
2/2007 (First article)
56.Fires (Part II) 2/2008
57.November, 1927 Flood 10/2007
58.The 1936 Flood 3/2016
59. Celebrating with Loud Huzzah (4th
of July) 7/2008 (Also Valley News)
60.French in Vermont (July 1609) 7/2009
61.Funerals: Deadly Sorrowful and Grave 10/2018
62.Furniture Makers: Plain and
Elegant 9/2015
63.Games of Our Childhood 5/2012
64.Survival By Gardening 8/2015
65.Fruits and Berries: Fruits of the
Harvest 10/2012
66.Fore No More (Abandoned Golf
Courses) 6/2008
67.Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow 3/2022
68. Halloween: Mysterious Tales 10/2011
69.A short History of Hill’s Five &
Ten (no article)
70.Hurricane: September 21, 1938 9/2008
(Also Valley News)
71.BOOK 3: Yankee Inventors 1/2010
72.Labor’s Gains & Summer’s Farewell
(Labor Day) 8/2013 (Also Valley News)
73.Local Libraries: Small Town
Perfect 4/2010
74.Log Drives: Driving the Middle Way
5/2010 (Also Valley News)
75.It’s In the Mail (Part I) 12/2020
76.It’s Still In the Mail (PartII)
1/2021
77.Fall In the Muster (Militia) 8/2009
78.Mining Mania (Grafton West) 5/2011
79.Mining Mania (Orange Co.) 8/2011
80.Carved In Stone (Gravestones) 10/2013
81.Monuments (October 12, 1926) Public
Monuments 10/2007
82.Let’s Go To The Movies 11/2010
83.Murder Most Vile (Part I) 4/2020
84.Murder Most Vile (Part II) 4/2020
85.Murder Most Vile ( Part III) 5/2020
86.What’s In A Name (Part I) 12/2012
87.What’s In A Name (Part II) 1/2013
88.FDR March 1933 3/2008
89.Stimulating the Economy in the 1930s
4/2009
90.Old New Year’s Ways 12/2015
91.Old Home Spirit 6/2011
92.Photographers: Picture That! 12/2011
93.Poor Farms: March 1923 3/2007
94.No One Lives There Anymore (Part I) 2/2011
95.No One Lives There Anymore (Part II)
3/2011
96.From Privy to Plumbing 6/2017 (Also
Valley News)
97.Coming of the Railroad: October 1848 10/2008
(Also Valley News)
98.Radio Broadcasts Received 3/2015
99.Ten-Year Retrospective 2/2017
100.
Roads
To And From 5/2022
101.
I-91:
Between A Rock & A Hard Place 11/2022
102.
Valley
News Vermont’s Lost Highways 10/2009
103.
Rogers’
Rangers: October 1759 10/2009
104.
BOOK
FOUR Smell of Sawdust (Mills) 12/2013
105.
School
Time: Academies and Seminaries 1790-1890
9/2009
106.
Sheep
Mania boom & Bust 4/2016
107.
Police:
Shields Against Crime 3/2021
108.
Sidewalks
“ Take A Walk” 8/2012
109.
Slavery:
A Crime Against Humanity 8/2010
110.
Snippets
From Past Articles (Presentation)
111.
Strawberry
Time 6/2007
112.
Strawberry
Festival 6/2015
113.
Stores:
Closing the Books 9/2018
114.
Sugarin’
Time 3/2014
115.
Late
Summer Fun 8/2021
116.
Not
On Sunday 12/2015
117.
Tax
Time: Rebellion and Revision 4/2018
118.
Plain
Talkin’ 9/2011
119.
Television: Pictures From The Air 4/2015
120.
Hello
Central, What’s New (telephone history)
5/2017
121.
No
Rum For Me (Temperance movement) 3/2009
(Also Valley News)
122.
Thanksgiving
Myths and Memories 11/2009
123.
Theatre
Companies: On the Stage 7/2021
124.
Things
That Never Happened (Locally) 1/2009
125.
Summertime
Tourism 8/2020
126.
Early
Town Meetings 2/2009
127.
Just
Passing Through (tramps, Gypsies etc.)
11/2020
128.
BOOK
FIVE Settled Here, At Anchor (Sea captains) 3/2013
129.
Old
Fashion Winter Fun 2/2019
130.
Hail
to the Chiefs (Washington/Lincoln) 2/2018
131.
Women’s
Suffrage: A Radical Notion 10/2010
132.
Women’s
Suffrage written with Abby Robbins 10/2020
133.
Mother
Peckett & Other Extraordinary Women 5/2009
134.
Women:
Work That’s Never Done 5/2019
135.
1945
Hanging on Toward Victory 1/2007
136.
VJ
Day August 14, 1945 8/2007
137.
Dark
Days of ’42 3/2017 (Also Valley News)
138.
Songs
of WW II 4/2008
139.
World
War I: Locals Over There 4/2017
140.
World
War I: Locals Over Here 3/2018
141.
From
Armistice Day to Veterans Day 11/2018
142.
Valentine’s Day : How We Love It. 2/2015
143.
Wood
There Be (Part I) 4/2021
144.
Wood
There Be (Part II) 5/2021
145.
Veterans:
Five Who Served 11/2021
146. Lost to Technology 1/2023
147. Young and Restless 2/22/2023
148. Stones and Bones
149. Organized Women: Not Just Social Clubs 3/22/2023
150. Drugs for A Cure 4/26/2023
151. We Remember Their Sacrifice: A Memorial Day Tribute 5/24/2023
152. Beyond Butter 6/28/2023
153. School's Out: Summer Jobs 8/9/2023
154. One Room Schools 10/5/2023
155. Early Firefighting: Hard Lessons Learned 11/20/2023
156 Sing A Song of Christmas 1/20/2023
157. Exodus 12/20/2009
158. Old Taverns 4/20/2021
159. Old Barns 6/22/2011
160. Winter Abbreviations 2/20/2008
161. No Rum For Me 3/27/2009
