Courier / Bethel Courier Collection
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The Courier (entitled The Bethel Courier prior to 1999) is a quarterly publication of the Bethel Historical Society. It should not be confused with The Bethel Courier (1858-1861), Bethel's first newspaper, for which it is named.
The Courier has served as the Bethel Historical Society's newsletter and history journal from 1976 to 2008, history journal from 2009-2014 (during which time a newsletter entitled The Broad Street Herald was also published), and newsletter from 2015 to present.
Featured articles have been extracted and formatted for easier searching and reading. A complete full-text archive of all back issues in PDF format is also available.
An index to volumes 1-22 (1976-1999) is available here.
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The Bethel Courier index / [compiled by Danna Brown Nickerson]
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Subject Issue(s) 100th Anniversary of Bethel News/Citizen Vol. 19, No. 3 150 Years of Hotel Keeping in Bethel Vol. 7, No. 2 1796: A Special Year in Bethel's Past Vol. 20, No. 2 19th Century Medicine in Bethel,…
The Bethel Antiquarian Suppers of the 1850s
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The Bethel Antiquarian Suppers of the 1850s Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True (1812-1887) Founder of Maine's first Farmer's Club (1853) at Bethel Originator of the Bethel Antiquarian Suppers (1855-1857) American life in the mid-nineteenth century…
The Bethel Agricultural Fair and Riverside Park
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The Bethel Agricultural Fair and Riverside Park by Yvonne B. Nowlin Grandstand at Riverside Park fairgrounds, ca. 1895 Editor's Note: The following history of the Bethel Agricultural Fair and Riverside Park was originally written as an…