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  • Collection: Full Issues of The Courier

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 11, No. 1

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Features: A review of Oxford County, Maine: A Guide to its Historic Architecture by Randall H. Bennett [reviewed by Herbert Adams] -- 2 Reflections on a Half Century by Leslie E. Davis [Part 2] -- 3 Society's Photographic Collection is Valuable…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 10, No. 4

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Features: Bethel's First Meetinghouse Re-discovered by Randall H. Bennett -- 1 A review of On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What it Means by Carol Kammen [reviewed by Stanley Russell Howe] --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 10, No. 3

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Features: Reflections on the Northwest Bethel Road by Rev. Elwin L. Wilson -- 1 A review of Preserving New England by Jane Holtz Kay with Pauline Chase-Harrell [reviewed by Randall H. Bennett] -- 5 Society news: Editor's Corner --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 10, No. 2

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Features: Highlights of 150 Years: Gould Academy 1836-1986 Principals and Headmasters of Gould Academy 1836-1986 -- 3 Member Profile: James Dyce Alger (1912-1986) -- 6 A review of the second edition of Eva Bean's East Bethel Road [reviewed by…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 10, No. 1

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Features: Bethel During the Second World War: Part II by Stanley Russell Howe -- 2 Bethel, Maine Roll of Honor, World War II -- 5 A review of The Life and Work of Ernest M. Skinner by Dorothy J. Holden [reviewed by Edward H. Hastings] --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 9, No. 4

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Features: Bethel During the Second World War by Stanley Russell Howe [Part 1] -- 1 A review of The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Aliance in Abenaki-Euroamerican Relations by Kenneth M. Morrison [reviewed by Margaret Joy Tibbetts] --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 9, No. 3

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Features: Chapman Street through the Years by Donald S. and Arlene G. Brown -- 1 A review of Above the Gravel Bar: The Indian Canoe Routes of Maine by David S. Cook [reviewed by Alvin Barth] -- 8 Society news: Editor's Corner --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 9, No. 2

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Features: Mason Portraits Included in National Portrait Gallery Catalog by Catherine S-C. Newell -- 1 "Benny": The Hermit of Greenwood City by Blaine A. Mills -- 4 William Rogers Chapman (1855-1935): Musician -- insert A review of The Browns of…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 9, No. 1

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Features: Some Memorable Bethel Women from the Earliest Days to 1930 by Margaret Joy Tibbetts -- 1 The Bethel Agricultural Fair and Riverside Park by Yvonne B. Nowlin [Part 2] -- 3 Member Profile: Ruth Carver Ames (1903-1985) -- 5 A Review of A…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 8, No. 4

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Features: The Bethel Agricultural Fair and Riverside Park by Yvonne B. Nowlin [Part 1] -- 1 A review of They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The Mount Washington Cog Railway and Its History by Donald H. Bray and I Conquered My Mountain: The…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 8, No. 3

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Features: High Street Through the Years by Geraldine S. Howe -- 1 Martha Fifield Wilkins and Bethel -- 5 A review of Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England by Thomas C. Hubka [reviewed by Stanley…

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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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, Indian Raid 1981 Special Edition

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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, 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. 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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