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One page flyer/statement with three pictures about the life and contributions of Lois Ashe Brown to Worthington. This written for her memorial celebration on the Historical Society grounds in summer 2000. Filed with Brown genealogy #2007a-033.

Monograph 'Jacob's Issue' This is a photocopied record of the genealogy of the Porter family written by Daniel Reed Porter III. This covers the family history from the year 900 to the present (2007).

Daily Hampshire Gazette, Home Section, with photos and article by Janet Dimock about the restoration of the Rogina and Keith Modestow home on Old Post Road.

Daily Hampshire Gazette with photos and article by Janet Dimock. Photos include the Joslyn home in winter (a Gothic Revival style), another Italianate embellishment on a late Greek Revival house from 1860 which is the Rogina and Keith Modestow home,…

Hampshire Life, February 2-8, 2007, this article by Sean Reagan features the front cover with full color photo of Oxen Team (Jim and Pike) and Josh Sampson on a snowy road in Worthington. From pages 26-28 (cont. on page 33) Sean Reagan's article…

Rotogravure Section of the Springfield Republican entitled 'Town Meeting.' 'These photos of the Town Meeting in Worthington, Mass., portray a form of government indiginous to New England, which is democratic and colorful in its operation. In this…

Daily Hampshire Gazette full page article with pictures of 'Our Towns' - pertaining to Worthington. Pictured are School Committeemen: Mrs. Robert J. Lucey, Ralph Kerley, and Carl S. Joslyn. Police Officers: Ernest Nugent, Henry H. Snyder, Chief, John…

Newspaper clipping from the The Daily Hampshire Gazette 'Mr. Worthington' rounding Out Half Century as Librarian; Recalls 'Firing up Wood Furnace.' Has picture of Arthur G. Capen stamping a library book.

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,…

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…

This original certificate on what seems to be parchment paper reads: Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety... recognizes the alertness, efficiency, and self sacrifice of the personnel of the Worthington Committee on Public Safety as evidenced by…

This is a block of granite which serves as a sample of the NH granite used for the Gettysburg PA monument to 41 Commanders of the Civil War 'not hitherto memorialized.' This memorial (whose picture is in the Photographic Data Base # 2006-128, please…

Rice Family Genealogy. Paper covers. Limited edition (#248). 'An Historical Sketch of Deacon Edmund Rice, the Pilgrim, 1594-1663 by Charles Elmer Rice.' Inscribed to William Jackson Rice. About 100 pages, printed.

This does not strictly pertain to the Bicentennial but has reference to 2004a-036. Another copy of this tour is in the Box 30 series.

News clipping cut out of paper with inscription by Dorothy Potter 'Postmarked 'Ringville, Mass, 1909,' this old card shows the stately Worthington Inn in the small community of Worthington Corners. Near the bustling intersection of Rtes. 143 and 112,…

The Wedding Dress' was written by Katharine McDowell Rice when she was a student at Radcliffe. This poster announces three plays, of which this is one, to be performed at the Harvard Dramatic Club, Annual Spring Production - Hasty Pudding Theatre,…

Copy of transfer of land from William Coit to Town of Worthington from Registry of Deeds, Book 158, p.19, dated Dec. 25, 1854, rec. Jan. 3, 1855 with special condition that Town of Worthington build a Town Hall on said tract. Price $25. Survey…

Black and white photograph. Shown is bridle path where road divides just above W. G. Rice house (owned in 1996 by the Downey family).

Black and white photograph. Shown is kitchen fireplace (1789) at 'The Farm' on Old North Road. part of Snow-bound Series; initialed H.L.P.R.. Mounted on board. Additional on bottom front left: Kitchen fireplace 1789' Poem on bottom front: 'Sit with…