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Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), circa 1865Photo courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Editor’s Note: The letter quoted below was apparently written by…

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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…

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The history of Bethel, Maine / Nathaniel Tuckerman True ; edited with an introduction by Randall H. Bennett

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Re-union poems / as written and delivered by A.S. Twitchell

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CONTENTS: Sixth re-union N.H. veterans -- Bethel centennial -- Re-union Gould's Academy -- Re-union Seventh Main Battery

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Chronicle [videorecording] [Bethel, Maine, 1989]

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Bethel, Maine featured on Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program in 1989.

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Collection: Video Library

COLL 14: Fifield-Wilkins Collection

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This collection includes (mostly) items given to Randall H. Bennett by Doris Wilkins, daughter of Martha Fifield Wilkins. It consists of family photographs, correspondence, and material gathered by Martha Fifield Wilkins in her history/genealogy work…

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BHS Program: "Some 20th Century Bethel Women"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Some 20th Century Bethel Women," presented by Margaret Joy Tibbetts on November 4, 1993.

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 11, No. 2

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Features: Historical Highlights of Bethel's Mechanic Street by Barbara Herrick Brown -- 1 Reflections on a Half Century by Leslie E. Davis [Part 3] -- 3 A review of The Grand Trunk in New England by Jeff Holt [reviewed by E.M. Quinn] --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 12, No. 4

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Features: Bethel-Fryeburg Connections through the Years by Stanley Russell Howe -- 1 Reflections of a Half Century by Leslie E. Davis [Part 9] -- 6 A review of Metallak, His Legacy by Alice Daley Noyes [reviewed by Catherine S-C. Newell] --…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 15, No. 3

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Features: Gould Academy's Farnsworth House Fifty Years Old -- 1 Reflections of a Half Century by Leslie E. Davis [Part 19] -- 2 Photos of 1874 Bethel Centennial Uncovered by Randall H. Bennett -- 5 Book Review: The Founding of Pearsontown…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 20, No. 2

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Features: 1796: A Special Year in Bethel's Past -- 1 TheBethel Soldiers of '61 by C.F. Whitman [Part 15; reprinted fromOxford County Advertiser] -- 1 Reflections of a Half Century by Leslie E. Davis [Part 38] -- 3 Book Review: White Mountain…

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