John Atwood discusses how pipe organs have developed in Vermont from 1814 to 1900, and working with them makes the nineteenth century real, often in unexpected ways. The presentation also includes the difference between the pipe organ and a reed organ. The program is...
Cyndy Bittinger, presents her book “Vermont Women, Native Americans & African Americans: Out of the Shadows of History”, will speak to this topic on August 25th. The book takes a fresh look at Vermont’s history, uncovering hidden stories, from the earliest...
Are the ancient stone structures and chambers in Vermont evidence that Europeans, Africans and Asians visited America at least 3,000 years prior to Columbus. That was the conclusion of Harvard University professor Barry Fell’s research. Mr. Fell wrote three popular...
Davis/Olmstead Store with W.A. Perkins Cole 8 in front After a year or two Mr. Stillwell sold to Mrs. E. Warren who soon sold it to E. A. Davis. Erwin Arzo Davis came from Royalton and taught school in Bridgewater Village in 1883, married Mabel Wilson in 1886 and went...
By Walter Houghton A person who was my hero and I always looked up to was my Uncle Royal. When the war ended the most memorable thing for me was going to White River Junction with my grandparents to meet his train. I still remember that old Boston & Maine...
By Karole A. Thompson Messier My mother, Ruhie Carpenter Thompson sold the Thompson Tavern (now Doyle Apartments) to Percy Solger. At the request of Mr. Robert Sharpe, my mother went to manage the Bridgewater Drug Store in the early 1940s where she remained for nine...
World War II Homecoming 1946 By Royal Houghton After World War II in 1946, Bridgewater’s Geno-Roberson American Legion post was asked to do a military funeral for a boy killed in the war in Europe. He came from Plymouth VT. ( I can’t remember the soldiers...
Cyndy Bittinger is faculty, The Community College of Vermont where she teaches Vermont History. She has given lectures for OSHER, the Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Vermont, over many years. She is a member of the Center for Research on Vermont...
