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Memories of Broad Street

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Memories of Broad Street by Margaret Herrick Oakes Broad Street, Bethel Hill village, circa 1910 Editor's note: Margaret Herrick Oakes (1896-1992) was the daughter of Judge Addison E. and Mary Chase Herrick and spent her childhood on Broad…

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1796: A Special Year in Bethel's Past

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1796: A Special Year in Bethel's Past The town we now call Bethel began as Sudbury Canada in 1768. It was granted to recognize the services of soldiers who fought in one of several abortive campaigns by Puritan Massachusetts to conquer the…

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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 --…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 --…

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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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