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BHS Program: "Fanny Hardy Eckstorm"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Fanny Hardy Eckstorm," presented by Herb Adams on November 4, 1999.

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BHS Meeting and Program: "James Phinney Baxter: Maine Historian"

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Bethel Historical Society 34th annual meeting and program, "James Phinney Baxter: Maine Historian," presented by Neil Rolde on September 2, 1999.

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BHS Program: Valentine's Day Necklace Raffle, 2000

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Bethel Historical Society Valentine's Day Necklace Raffle on February 14, 2000, with information about the pieces by Jim Mann.

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"Life in the 1830s"

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A short film, "Life in the 1830s," made by Miss Newcomb's fifth grade class at Crescent Park School in 1988, and filmed at the Bethel Historical Society's Dr. Moses Mason House.

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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. 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. 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. 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. 15, No. 1

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Features: Some Highlights of the Past Twenty-five Years: Bethel Historical Society 1966-1991 -- 1 Reflections of a Half Century by Leslie E. Davis [Part 17] -- 2 19th Century Medicine in Bethel, Maine by Joyce Wanger [Part 3] -- 8 Society…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 18, No. 1

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Features: The Bethel Historical Society and the Dr. Moses Mason House: The First Twenty Years -- 1 History of the Bethel United Methodist Church by Arlene G. and Donald S. Brown [Part 2] -- 3 The Bethel Soldiers of '61 by C.F. Whitman [Part 6;…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 20, No. 1

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Features: Some Highlights of the Past Thirty Years, Bethel Historical Society, 1966-1996 -- 1 TheBethel Soldiers of '61 by C.F. Whitman [Part 14; reprinted fromOxford County Advertiser] -- 5 Reflections of a Half Century by Leslie E. Davis [Part…

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The Courier [Bethel Historical Society publication]

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The Courier(entitledThe Bethel Courier prior to 1999) is a quarterly publication of the Bethel Historical Society.It should not be confused withThe Bethel Courier (1858-1861), Bethel's first newspaper, for which it is named.The Courierhas served as…

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The Broad Street Herald

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TheBroad Street Heraldwas the newsletter of the Bethel Historical Society from summer 2008 to spring 2015. It was printed alongside our longstanding publication The Courier, which during that period was overhauled into the Society's history journal.…

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Society Marks First Decade

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Society Marks First Decade Society founder Eva M. Bean at Woodland Cemetery No one seems to know who first conceived of a Bethel Historical Society, but in 1855 thirty citizens gathered for what was recorded as an antiquarian supper with a…

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Dr. Moses Mason House Tour

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Video tour of the Bethel Historical Society's Dr. Moses Mason House on September 30, 1989.

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BHS Program: "Ed Muskie of Maine"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Ed Muskie of Maine," presented by Christopher Beam on May 4, 2000.

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BHS Hall Memorial Lecture: "The Intersection of Constitutions, Prohibition Laws and Wife Abuse in 19th Century New England and New York"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture, "The Intersection of Constitutions, Prohibition Laws and Wife Abuse in 19th Century New England and New York," presented on August 11, 2000, by Jerome J. Nadelhaft, emeritus professor of history at the…

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BHS Program: "Tall Trees, Tough Men"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Tall Trees, Tough Men." Features reflections and selected readings of Robert Pike presented by Helen Pike and fetauring selections performed by the Mahoosuc Music Makers Brass Quintet. Part of the Sudbury Canada…

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BHS Program: "Where's Rumford?"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Where's Rumford?," presented by Linda Farr Macgregor on October 5, 2000.

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BHS Program: "Oral History Night: The Korean Conflict"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Oral History Night: The Korean Conflict," featuring a panel discussion on the Korean War on March 6, 1997.

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BHS Program: "Eva M. Bean: Local Historian"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Eva M. Bean: Local Historian," presented by Margaret Joy Tibbetts on April 1, 1999.

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BHS Program: "John Francis Sprague and Sprague's Journal of Maine History"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "John Francis Sprague and Sprague's Journal of Maine History," presented by Marius Péladeau, of the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley, Maine, on August 5, 1999.

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BHS Program: "Eva Bean's Centenary"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Eva Bean's Centenary," featuring a short portrayal of Josiah Thacher by Jim Rose, followed by talks by Stanley Russell Howe and Margaret Joy Tibbetts on April 6, 1995.

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Dr. Moses Mason House Tour

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Dr. Stanley Howe narrates a tour of the Bethel Historical Society's Dr. Moses Mason House.

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