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BHS Hall Lecture: "Privatism versus Communalism in the 18th Century Towns of Northern New England"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Lecture: "Privatism versus Communalism in the 18th Century Towns of Northern New England," presented by Charles E. Clark on June 10, 1996.

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

BHS Program: "Littlefield Murders, 1937"

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Bethel Historical Society Program: "Littlefield Murders, 1937," presented by Margaret Lacombe on May 1 1997.

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.) | Littlefield Murders (South Paris, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

BHS Hall Lecture: "Defense of Maine During the American Revolution: Blessed are the Weak"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture: "Defense of Maine During the American Revolution: Blessed are the Weak," presented by Dr. James Leamon, professor of history at Bates College, on Friday, August 8, 1997.

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

BHS Program: "Louise Dickinson Rich"

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Bethel Historical Society Program, "Louise Dickinson Rich," featuring a panel discussion and held on November 6, 1997.

Panelists include: Jane Rich (Rich's former daughter-in-law), Alice Arlen (her biographer), Ernest Angevine (who lived with the…

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

BHS Hall Memorial Lecture: "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture, "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine" delivered by Jo Radner on September 7, 1998.

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

BHS Program: "75 Years in Bethel" by Margaret Joy Tibbetts

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Bethel Historical Society Program, "75 Years in Bethel," presented by Margaret Joy Tibbetts on November 1, 2001.

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

BHS Program: "Oral History Night: Memories of the Bethel Inn on its 85th Anniversary"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Oral History Night: Memories of the Bethel Inn on its 85th Anniversary," presented on August 6, 1998, in the Bethel Inn's South Dining Room.The panel includes Libby Bane, Margaret Joy Tibbetts, Steve Wight, and…

Tags: Bethel Inn (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Audio Collection

Lord's Orchestra - Songo Lake Pavilion, March 1958

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Lord's Orchestra performing at the Songo Lake Pavilion in March 1958.

Tags: Lord's Orchestra (Bethel, Me.) | Songo Lake Pavilion (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Miscellaneous Sounds

The Last Dance for Lord's

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"The Last Dance for Lord's" - Lord's Orchestra performing at the Top Hat Pavilion in October 1962.

Tags: Lord's Orchestra (Bethel, Me.) | Top Hat Pavilion (Hanover, Me.)

Collection: Miscellaneous Sounds

Fragments of Local History. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 1. / By a Sudbury Native.

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FRAGMENTS OF LOCAL HISTORY. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 1.—By a Sudbury Native. It is an every day saying that persons, objects or things which drift into our environment for a long, unbroken period, often sink to the level of the common…

Tags: Bethel (Me.) | Bethel Common (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Oxford County Citizen Collection

Fragments of Local History. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 2. / By a Sudbury Native.

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FRAGMENTS OF LOCAL HISTORY. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 2.—By a Sudbury Native. In the previous number we have endeavored to outline in a crude, unpolished manner, an upward growth in our Common’s physical condition; from an uncleared…

Tags: 1781 "Last Indian Raid" (Bethel, Me.) | Bethel (Me.) | Bethel Common (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Oxford County Citizen Collection

Col. Edwards’ Letter

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COL. EDWARDS’ LETTER. Bethel, Jan. 25th, 1896 My dear friend Stevens:— Your kind letter came to hand in due time; many thanks for the same. You say I may have forgotten you; my answer is, No, I well remember you and other sergeants of that old Co.…

Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles

Death of Gen. Clark S. Edwards

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DEATH OF GEN. CLARK S. EDWARDS An Honored Citizen—A Distinguished Soldier—A Noble Hero and Patriot has gone to his rest. Passed quietly away at his home last Sunday Evening, at 8.45 o’clock, after an illness of but a few days. A hero and patriot…

Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles

BHS Program: "Oral History Night: Bethel Farming"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Oral History Night: Bethel Farming" featuring a panel discussion on March 7, 1996.

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Video Collection

BHS Program: "Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995): A Centennial Appraisal"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995): A Centennial Appraisal," presented by David Richards, Assistant Director of Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegen, Maine on September 4, 1997.

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Collection: Bethel Historical Society Video Collection