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Hardcover book 'Only One Cummington, a book in two parts' by Helen H. Foster and William W. Streeter, Cummington, Massachusetts. (There is only one town in the USA named 'Cummington.') A history of Cummington purchased and donated by Diana Brenner…

R. G. Sanderson' Identify Dot Nelson This is a leather bound book with partly rotten spine. 'Mark Twain' and 'Illustrated' appears on the spine. Illustrated by Fay and Cox, Nassau Street, N.Y.

Hard cover 'Hillard's Intermediate Reader' has a faded green cover with black lettering. Published by Brewer and Tileston, Boston. This is 'for the use of schools, with an introductory treatise on reading and the training of the vocal organs, by G.…

Paper cover Book - Hawley Massachusetts the First Fifty Years 1770-1820 by Harrison Parker. According to Frank Feakes this is a wonderful example of a town publication. Published by Sara Publishing, Amherst, MA, 1992. Mr. Parker apprently died before…

Softcover, 'Harvesting History' Edited and with several selections by Sheila Rainford and Ruth Own Jones. Amherst Area POublications, first edition, 2010. 343 pp. illustrated with index.

In a lined paper composition book, a handwritten (Arthur Capen?) version of 1853, Rice & 1874, C. K. Brewster, History of the Town of Worthington (109 pages) The last page refers to an axe used to build the first log house in Worhington on the…

Capitalize on Collections Care,' Heritage Preservation, Inc. 2007, softcover, 21 pp.

Salmon colored, soft-cover book, stapled together, Vol. IV, May 1963, Published by: The Progressive Club, Windsor, Mass, 500 copies, $1.50, first printing. Foreword: 'This volume is just another continuation of the work in the fore-going volumes…

Faded green, soft-cover book, stapled together, Vol. III, February 1962, Published by: The Progressive Club, Windsor, Mass, 500 copies, $1.50, first printing. Foreword: 'This volume is a continuation of the work in Volume II (see 2007a-001,…

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections,' by Marie C. Malaro, Second Edition, Smithsonian Books, 1998, softcover, 507 pp.

Softcover book: A Graveyard Primer' by Lynette Strangstad, ASSLH (American Association for State and Local History) Press, 1988, second printing, 1990. 126 pages with index and black and white photographs. On loan to Pat Kennedy 6/9/07.

Blue, hard cover with gold writting 'A Bicentennial History of Peru, Berkshire County, Massachusetts' with Peru town seal. Has application to Worthington as a neighboring community (ref. 'The Shooting Box' which is also a glass plate in our…

Tan, soft-cover book, stapled together, Vol. II, November 1960, Published by: The Progressive Club, Windsor, Mass, 500 copies, $1.50, first printing. Foreword: 'Through the kind encouragement of friends, acquaintances and even strangers, who bore…

Published in 1842. 'Presented by Chester Adams of Charlestown to his son, John Adams of Worthington, April 1850' Very good condition. 'Two Adams family Bibles -- John Adams born in Worthington. 2nd Bible given to him in 1850 (possible birth…

Chester Adams from his brother, A. Adams' published in 1810; with owner's notes on contents of Old and New Testament, a brief genealogy. Good condition except for cover 'Two Adams family Bibles -- John Adams born in Worthington. 2nd Bible given…

A handbook of Questions and Answers relating to the History of Worthington, Massachusetts' Compiled by Elsie V. Bartlett' Handwritten original on lined paper in leather 2-ring notebook. Second copy in paper bound two hole booklet with the word…

A 1971 Harper's Weekly poster for the bicentennial of Williamsburg (1771-1971) remembering the Bicentennial of 'The Mill River Calamity' in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, on June 6, 1874. The poster is sepia with black printing and a beautiful drawing…

Photocopy of article by John D. Willard (1913) 'Schools and Rural Regeneration: What has been done in some of the rural schools by one man and the relation of this work to the problems of the western New England hill towns.' Reverend Willard's…

Light green cover, black lettering, drawing of New England steepled church.

Photocopy of "A Little History of Indian Hollow near Huntington, Massachusetts" by Elizabeth Hartley, Born - January 27, 1852" (she was 82 and living in Orlando Florida at the she wrote this). Indian Hollow is now in the basin of Knightville Dam…