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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 1, No. 1

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Features: Society Marks First Decade-- 1 The Gould Academy Story, 1836-1976[by] Francis Parkman [reviewed by Rosalind Sabin Wade] --4 "What is this Harding Fever?": A Brief Sketch of the American Artist Chester Harding by Catherine Newell --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 1, No. 2

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Features: Memories of Broad Street by Margaret Herrick Oakes-- 1 Book Review: Sunday River Sketches: A New England Chronicle [by Martha Fifield Wilkins, reviewed by Ruth Crosby] -- 4 Moses Mason Day Book [summarized by Margaret Joy Tibbetts] --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 2, No. 1

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Features: War to End All Wars: Bethel During the First World War -- 1 Book Review: J. E. Martin, "Jonathan Adams Bartlett" [review by Helen Morton] -- 6 The "Courier" and Freeman's Hall -- 8 From the "Bethel Courier", September 23, 1859 --…

Tags: Broad Street Historic District (Bethel, Me.) | Freeman's Hall (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 2, No. 2

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Features: 115 Years Ago: Masons Observe Golden Wedding Aniversary -- 1 The Last of the Pequakets: Mollocket by Nathaniel T. True-- 2 Book Review:Waterford, Maine, 1875-1976. [Reviewed by Randall H. Bennett.] -- 4 Society news In Memoriam…

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.) | Broad Street Historic District (Bethel, Me.) | Waterford (Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 3, No. 1

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Features: Bethel's Main Street Through History: A Historical Survey by Rosalind R. Chapman -- 1 Book Review: The History of Current Maine Newspapers [by]Alan Robert Miller [reviewed by Margaret Joy Tibbetts] -- 7 Society News: Society…

Tags: Broad Street Historic District (Bethel, Me.) | Main Street (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 3, No. 2

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Features: Ferries on the Androscoggin between West Bethel and East Rumford -- 1 Crossing by Ferry on the Androscoggin by Frank Worcester-- 1 Mrs. Mason's Recipe for "Catchup" -- 2 Bethel Poor Farm, 1879 -- 4 Obituary of Dr. Moses Mason from…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 4, No. 1

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Features: The Bethel Library Association 1879-1979 -- 1 Book Review: History of Hebron Academy: 1804-1972by Harold E. Hall [reviewed by Gordon M. Gillies] -- 5 Petition of Inhabitants of Sudbere Canada to the General Court of the Commonwealth of…

Tags: 1781 "Last Indian Raid" (Bethel, Me.) | Bethel Library Association (Bethel, Me.) | Hebron Academy | Sudbury Canada (Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 4, No. 2

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Features: Mayville, My Mayville by Donald G. Bennett -- 1 Book Review: Andover: The First 75 Years by the Andover Friday Club [reviewed by Larry Billings] -- 5 Dr. Moses Mason [excerpt from Mrs. Cyrene Jane Cummings Bean's manuscriptThe Early…

Tags: Andover (Me.) | Bethel (Me.) | Mayville (Bethel, Me.) | Second Congregational Church (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 4, No. 3

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Features: Bethel's Postal History -- 1 Book Review: Stuart F. Martin, New Pennacook Folks[reviewed by Randall H. Bennett] -- 5 Bethel's Hotels [by Donald G. Bennett] -- 6 Society news: Moses Mason Birthday Celebrated -- 1 1981 Calendar…

Tags: Bethel House, 1st (Bethel, Me.) | Bethel Post Office (Bethel, Me.) | Rumford (Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 4, No. 4

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Features: Church Street through the Years by Rosalind R. Chapman -- 1 Book Review: Florence E. O'Connor, The Ancestors and Descendants of Asa Freeman Ellingwood and Florilla (Dunham) Ellingwood -- 8 Society news: 1981 Program Annonced for…

Tags: Church Street (Bethel, Me.) | Universalist Church (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 5, No. 1

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Features: The Irish Neighborhood by Maragaret Joy Tibbetts-- 1 Book Note: Joseph E. Garland, An Experiment in Medicine: The First Twenty Years of the Pratt Diagnostic Clinic and the New England Center Hospital of Boston. [Reviewed by Stanley…

Tags: Anasagunticook House (Bethel, Me.) | Church Street (Bethel, Me.) | Irish Neighborhood (Greenwood, Me.) | West Bethel Spring (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 5, No. 2

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Features: Dr. Moses Mason and the Androscoggin Canal and Mill Corporation -- 1 New England's Last Indian Raid by Randall H. Bennett -- 2 Book Review: Paula M. Wight's Newry Profiles 1805-1980 [reviewed by George R. Allen] -- 6 Historical…

Tags: 1781 "Last Indian Raid" (Bethel, Me.) | Androscoggin Canal and Mill Corp. | Newry (Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 5, No. 3

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Features: Bethel Commemorates Bicentennial of Last Indian Raid in New England with Much Fanfare -- 1 Historical Footnote [A.S. Bean's steam mill] [Photographs of Indian Raid celebration] -- 4 Comments on Indian Raid '81 -- 6 Historical…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 5, No. 4

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Features: Gilead Memories by Emeline V. Heath -- 1 Books and Pamphlets Relating to Gilead -- 1 A review of the new edition of History of Bethel, Maine by William B. Lapham [Reviewed by Randall H. Bennett] Society news: New Life Members --…

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The Bethel Courier, Indian Raid 1981 Special Edition

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 6, No. 1

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Features: Park Street by Rosalind Rowe Chapman -- 1 Bethel's Elusive Androscoggin Steamboat by Randall H. Bennett -- 3 A review of Gordon M. Day's The Identity of the Saint Francis Indians [reviewed by Catherine S-C. Newell] -- 6 Society…

Tags: Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.) | Park Street (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 6, No. 2

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Features: West Bethel's Main Street by Jane Hosterman -- 1 The Bethel Inn: Its Roots and Branches (1833-1982) by Donald G. Bennett -- 6 Society news: Third Annual Faye Taylor Memorial Art Show Held May 29 -- 3 President's Column -- 3 In…

Tags: Bethel Inn (Bethel, Me.) | West Bethel Road (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 6, No. 3

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Features: Bird Hill by Blaine A. Mills -- 1 Bird Hill by "Index" [William Berry Lapham] -- 6 Society news: New Life Members -- 2 President's Column -- 3 Hundreds Enjoy Sudbury Canada Days August 14-15 -- 4 Editor's Corner -- 7 New…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 6, No. 4

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Features: I Remember "The Snow Boat" by Barbara Herrick Brown -- 1 Gilead Centennial Address by Professor A.J. Roberts of Colby College, Gilead, Maine, July 14, 1904 [full version here] -- 1 I Believe in Ghosts by Pearl Ashby Tibbetts -- 5 Book…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 7, No. 1

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Features: Spring Street Through the Years by Sue Farrar -- 1 Kimball Families of the Bethel Area by Elizabeth Mason Carter -- 4 A review of The History of Waterford, Oxford County, Maine [reviewed by Stanley Russell Howe] Society…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 7, No. 2

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Features: Memories of an Earlier Era: Part I by Marjorie Farwell Cummings -- 1 One Hundred Fifty Years of Hotel Keeping on Bethel Hill -- 4 A review of Indian New England before the Mayflower by Howard S. Russell [reviewed by Catherine S-C.…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 7, No. 3

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Features: A Historical Sketch of Mason Street by Ernest Perkins -- 1 A review of The Keewaydin Way, A Portrait: 1893-1983 by Brian Beck [reviewed by Stanley Russell Howe] -- 2 Memories of an Earlier Era: Part II by Marjorie Farwell Cummings --…

Tags: Bethel (Me.) | Keewaydin Camp | Mason Street (Bethel, Me.)

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 7, No. 4

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Features: Life on the Home Front: Bethel During the Civil War by Stanley Russell Howe -- 1 Memories of an Earlier Era: Part III by Marjorie Farwell Cummings -- 7 A review of Life by the Tracks - When Passenger Trains Steamed through the Notch by…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 8, No. 1

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Features: Bethel in the Great Depression by Margaret Joy Tibbetts -- 1 A review of Simple Forms and Vivid Colors: An Exhibition of Maine Painted Furniture, 1800-1850 by Edwin A. Churchill [reviewed by F. Barrie Freeman] Society…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 8, No. 2

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Features: The Bethel Historical Society Incorporated and the Dr. Moses Mason House: The First Ten Years -- 1 Book Note: Hartford in Pictures[reviewed by Stanley Russell Howe] Society news: Society to Reprint East Bethel Road -- 1 Editor's…

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