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BHS Program: "History of Hanover"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "History of Hanover" presented by Ann Hastings Morton on June 3, 1993.

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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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BHS Program: "Oral History Night" - March 1994

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Oral History Night," from March 17, 1994.

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BHS Program: "History of the Oxford County Jail"

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Bethel Historical Society meeting of May 5, 1994 and program, "History of the Oxford County Jail," presented by Lloyd "Skip" Herrick.

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BHS Program: "Brick Grammar School"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Brick Grammar School," presented on June 2, 1994.

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BHS Program: "Oral History Night: Logging and Loggers"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Oral History Night: Logging and Loggers," recorded on March 2, 1995.

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BHS Program: "Elizabeth Ring: Maine Historian"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Elizabeth Ring, Maine Historian," presented by Earl G. Shettleworth on May 6, 1999.

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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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OCLHS Program: "The Civil War"

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Oxford County League of Historical Societies meeting and a program on the Civil War hosted by Beverly H. Kalgren. Hosted by The Bethel Historical Society on April 16, 1994.

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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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Allan Fraser interviewed at age 81

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Allan Fraser interviewed on August 13, 1999 at the age of 81. This interview was taped by Robert Spidell on August 13, 1999, just a few months before Allan passed on December 13, 1999.

Bethel Town Republican Committee meeting, 1994

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Meeting of the Bethel Town Republican Committee from April 9, 1994.

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"Great Dying"

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King Philip's War (1675-1676), a brief but bloody conflict between Native Americans and English colonists in southern New England, marked a turning point in 17th century encounters between Indians and Europeans. However, it was not the worst…

Indian Fort

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A major focal point of Molly Ockett's world was Pigwacket, the ancient Indian enclave at present-day Fryeburg, Maine. This late 16th century representation of an East Coast Algonquian village conveys something of Pigwacket's appearance in the…

Fryeburg 1880 map

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The village of Pigwacket was the scene of one of the most widely known military events in colonial New England history when, on May 8, 1725, thirty-four English scalp hunters led by the daring Captain John Lovewell engaged some forty Abenaki led by…

Lovewell monument

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A monument commemorating the "Battle of Lovewell's Pond" was erected at Fryeburg in 1904 by the Society of Colonial Wars. The monument's plaque states, "To mark the field of Lovewell's Fight on the 8th day of May 1725 between a company of…

1613 Saco, Maine map

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Like other Native Americans inhabiting northern New England, the Pigwackets were a semi-nomadic people, moving easily up and down river in light birchbark canoes in pursuit of sustenance. This 1613 map of Saco, Maine, by Samuel de Champlain includes…

Plymouth, MA

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During King George's War, a handful of Pigwacket men volunteered to fight for the English in exchange for protection for their families. In June of 1744, the Pigwacket chieftains Saquant and Weranmanhead (one of whom may have been Molly Ockett's…

Mitchell map

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In this detail from John Mitchell's 1755 Map of the British and French Dominions in North America, we have an intimate view of Molly Ockett's world at the outbreak of the so-called French and Indian War (1755-59), when many Abenaki found safe haven…

Robert Rogers

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Known to the Abenaki as "the White Devil," Major Robert Rogers of the British Army was ordered to neutralize New France's Native allies in 1759. Showing little mercy, Rogers and his Rangers destroyed Odanak (or "Arasagunticook," as it was then…

1795 Carleton map

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Abenaki survival in post-Revolutionary Maine (delineated here in a 1795 map by Osgood Carleton), as well as other parts of northern New England, depended on accommodation to the white man's world. Often camping near the newly laid out communities…

Hanover intervale

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The first white settlers to venture into this region discovered something the Abenaki had known for generations: the level "intervales" alongside the Androscoggin and other rivers contained amazingly fertile soils that were ideal for raising a…

Indian teepee

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Despite her familiarity with the ways of the white settlers, Molly Ockett practiced an Indian style of living during her travels throughout the area, including trips to northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Canada. Stopping at favorite campsites and…