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In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. db/jd 2024-08-29 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/2c10a16e17ba5df5346455a76e8138b6.pdf 5f19d88b03c6a0518387faf0c93e0f16 PDF Text Text Westhampt«n M-smorial Libraff STONE WALLS Fan 1977 �You know, there published all are hundreds of magazines similar to being over the United States, as far away as Alaska and Hawaii, in cultures as foreign to us as the collection of STONE WALLS community that run through all Navaho efforts is Indians. And what is most striking about not their diversity, but rather the this common threads of them. Each magazine concerns itself with the lives of people which, without doubt, have been remarkable, but not, for the most part, exceptional. There's a difference. These lives are not exceptional because they share similar joys, they share similar frustrations, they share similar fears and failures. What they share with our lives is what we can continue to hold on to. We can think of one-room schoolhouses, we can reminisce about sleigh-rides, and remember making butter at home, but remember is all we can do. Perhaps, then, something more positive that nostalgia can come out of all these community efforts. Perhaps we can be reminded that every single community has its share of good sympathetic people who 'keep at it', but don't make a lot of noise. And if we just listen and recognize that people are not so different everywhere else, well, then, maybe we'll stop elbowing one another and quietly, unoffensively obliterate the barriers that prevent us from saying, "Welcome". STONE WALLS Box 85 Huntington, Massachusetts 01050 Vol. 3, No. 3 STONE WALLS published quarterly. Subscriptions are $6.00 a year. $1.60 for individual of individual copies may be modified only with the permission of the Editorial Board. We welcome unsolicited manuscripts and illustrations from and about the hilltowns of the Berkshires. The editors of STONE WALLS assume no responsibility for noncommissioned manuscripts, photographs, drawings, or other material. No such material will copies. The is retail price be returned unless submitted with self addressed envelope and sufficient postage. We also welcome letters from our readers. No portions of this publication may be reproduced in any form, with the exception of brief excerpts for review purposes, without the express consent of the editors o/ STONE WALLS. © STONE WALLS 1977 Cover photos by Connie Dorrington Printed by The Mint Printers, Laurie Drive, Southampton, Massachusetts �Contents 2 7 9 AT HOME IN THE WOODS GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH FERNS MIDDLEFIELD BOYS' CLUB 13 GRANVILLE'S LOYALIST MINISTER 16 ME AND 17 NOONEY OBITUARY THE PINE VARIED GREEN WEST WORTHINGTON INDIANS HAYDEN POND 20 21 22 24 27 30 SURPRISE 31 UNFORGETTABLE PERSON SETTLEMENT OF CHESTER ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS 32 40 Virginia Lazarus Ladd Otis Richard Waite Helena Duris and Barbara Brainerd JIM STORY OF A BRITISH DESERTER HENRY SNYDER 25 Ellie Bertha Bronson Frank S. Nooney WilUamRose Madeline Hunter Chauncey Stephenson Doris W. Hayden Virginia Lois Ladd Otis Ashe Brown David Lynes L. Wignot William S. Mills Grace 1- �At Home in the Woods (An interview with Carl Libardi) by Ellie Lazarus "I've worked in the woods life," states Carl Libardi as his well-worn in all of we bump my along Chevy panel truck. "I didn't have the background for anything else, I "My guess." Carl Libardi, has run the A. known by most as Carlo, & L. store in Chester Village for thirty years. But that store, a job for most of us, is full time only a part of Carl A major part of his life is the nurseries where he nurtures a range from native maple and birch, which he collects himself, to exotic Japanese yews. Libardi's everyday life. Chester nurseries plot was just sand and gravel twelve years ago, but I made soil out of it." And that says pretty much about Carl Libardi himself, a man who never went to high school, a man who stands watchfully still in the woods to wit- ness what others learn out of textbooks. "I never had a horticulture course," explains Carl. "I and I've was working when I was thirteen been working ever since. The years I wasn't guess." in school I learned more, I To Carl Libardi the woods are filled with animate objects. As we walk along, he picks up a birch seed. "See this. The creator has given it wings and in no time at progeny will be spread over a valley or downstream, if they're meant to float, like the Hemlock or Sycamore. The Sycamore's seed comes concentrated in a ball and that will float. Once it disintegrates, that seed will lodge itself on the banks of a river. Acorns have to come in intimate conall its An accidental acorn next to a birch has brought to An life an oak tree sapling. new oak acorn sends tree. its roots into the soil to begin a �The deer family known feed on them. There were so many acorns this year that the deer remained in the plains, "from which an extract has always tact with the soil in order to burst. been taken for a pain-killer. You'll find that same element in your aspirin, artificially produced and its name is salicilate. It is highlands, even after the green vegetation started in the valleys below the snow line, because there was plenty of mast up high. Each seed of a birch has a different vitality. I planted this whole row," he says, pointing, "at the same time. Some present in the leaves of the willow. People used to steep it and drink its juices. People have also steeped the bark of the willow and used it as a lotion for poison ivy. The camptonia, also known as the Sweet Fern is used for poison ivy, too. It will soothe it, but I'm not sure whether it will cure it." "Marsh marigolds," Carl goes on, "are a good green to eat if you catch them early enough. They're better than dande- now are IV2 inches in caliper, others, 3 inches. There is more uniformity in birches if plant just roots instead of conceiving as Salix," Carl Libardi ex- you them by seed." Not too far along, we passed a dead maple tree, a nursery for bushels of mushrooms, as Carl explains. "Those are edible Edible oyster-shell mushrooms on a dead maple "Jack-in-t he-Pulpit has juice in tree. bum ya To eat them, you skin them and soak them overnight in heavily salted water to get the beetles out. You can dry them or use them right away. After you more will cums or little threads carry the mushroom and can be that people stay that will irritate the skin. away from to me. It'll bum ya' like you touch the juice to your skin, you will get a rash; if you touch it to your tongue, it will burn your tongue for hours. The Indians would dry the root, pulverize it, and mix it with bear fat or skunk grease. Then they would use it for rheumahorseradish. grow micilli- the sperms of common knowledge. What that'll "Jack-in-the-Pulpit has a juice in the bulb transferred to other fertile areas, like dead trees." Slews of other plants serve useful pur- poses. That's bulb, have their uses, Carl explains pick them, you can rub their bottoms onto there — contagion with spores. The its like horseradish. Even plants oyster mushrooms. rotten parts of trees and ' tic If pains or arthritis, but primarily to create abnormal heat is not common knowledge is which serve what purpose. "The willow belongs to the in the lungs to bring an in- creased flow of blood to the chest to cure pneumonia." -3- �There are other plants which we humans know to be helpful, but not so for other animals. "The Witch Hazel tree", according The Chinese have long believed in its powers. One Chinese emperor sent two pounds of Ginseng as a precious gift to "has enough sugar in the sap to form a yellow blossom in February(!). The blossoms are small and inconspicuous. I have seen squirrels," Carl says smiling, "who had imbibed too freely and become drunk. They chase each other, try to climb a tree and can't. The catkins on a Quaking Aspen," he continues, "similar to those on a birch, have something in them that causes them to ferment when the partridge eats them. They ferment in his crop and they cause the partridge to do acrobatics, go through the windshield of a car, or fly through windows of houses." to Carl, Carl Libardi has collected wild plants all He would carry two or three thousand New York Lace Ferns off Gobble his life. one time on his back in order to earn forty cents for each thousand. He'd collect Vermont Fancy Ferns for New York florists and Dagger Ferns for Bostonians and Philadelphians. "During the war, I'd get telegrams from Boston or Philadelphia asking for $10,000 worth of 'Daggers'." Ferns he collected as routine. What Carl Mountain at Libardi collects as a real specialty is Gin- seng, that mysterious plant whose root considered by many to be an elixir. is Ginseng roots, collected and labeled by Carl Libardi. Peter the Great. Soviet scientists have now discovered that proofreaders, telephone operators, and coding clerks work nificantly faster ginseng. One all sig- and more accurately on of the world's leading ex- perts on plant drugs, E.J. Shellard, has accumulated evidence of ginseng's antiand anti-infection stress, anti-fatigue, "Gin- seng" means "man-shaped root", for the sometimes resembles a human body. The scientific name for ginseng means root 'panacea'. 'Shang' as Carl Libardi calls is worth $1500.00 a pound now. It is it, found on slopes facing southeast, smaller ones on slopes facing north, and average ones on slopes facing east. When you see a ginseng time," he explains, 'you marvel about everything in the woods that it resembles. It isn't hard to identify, though, once you know it. It actually has plant for the first ' lines all its own. There is no woody part to a ginseng plant, like the sarsaparilla or walnut which it resembles. The leaves ' actually look oriental. adder-tongues or Doghave spotted leaves and a little (May) "Trout-lilies, also called tooth violets, yellow lily. ' �have watched a doe when I was walking in the they leave a signal. properties, and he attributes those properties certain to glycosides which are not found Carl Libardi is in any other plants. in it's just powder. If he thinks it it will in If the direction of is from her to me, she can't smell me. But when the wind shifts, the doe starts, looks around, and bounds away. The buck who is trailing her, half an hour later comes by smelling the doe tracks. When he gets to that spot, he becomes very wary, squats down, looks around for an adversary, and slinks away. You don't kind of like giving someone a capsule with no medicine still. the wind rather an agnostic collector of ginseng. "I think maybe come up to me woods and I stood ginseng I it, work, well, will." mean to tell me they don't "Even animals give a signal!" of different species alto- gether communicate with each other," Carl Libardi continues. "I've seen a wood- chuck just sitting in the nursery here with its head down. Then I hear a red-wing blackbird change its tone to a more piercing note. The red-wing blackbird has seen me, and is warning the woodchuck. The woodchuck never even raises his head, he just takes off." To know animal patterns as Carl Libardi knows them, takes time, patience, and watchful senses. "The woodcock, when mating, makes a bleat and a burp and The work of the yellow-bellied sapsucker. What Carl Libardi knows, he has exper- A he knows how animals behave the way most people know weather patterns. "Deer have specific ways of communicating with one another," he says as he looks across the ienced. zoologist he is not, but meadow. "Under those apple trees I thereby attracts the female," Carl begins to relate after he has told me of the long periods he spends just standing still wait- saw a herd of five deer one day, and I walked right up to the wall. The big buck that was with two does and two fawns had his back turned towards me and his tail was raised. Finally, he looked directly at the fawns and they looked at him. And then he turned his head and looked down could see his in that corner. muscles tense — I was — You right on top of him, I was motionless then he gave a squeak and a snort. The two big does and the buck started running right across that field. The two little fellas went right down where the buck had indicated. "Of course the buck and the doe both have scent glands in their forelegs and 'Dutchman 's Britches, related to the Bleeding Heart, grow on slopes facing east because they " like the moisture and the shade. ' -5- �' "He'll keep up fifteen or twenty He won't Springfield as far as Chester and had walked to that house (now a cellar hole) and slept there overnight, intending to spend the summer during hay season at Sam Willard's farm in Middlefield. What a way to meet someone If Carl Libardi now spends most of his pull himself out of that free-fall until he's available time in contact with the plants ing. it times, just those two simple notes. Then he will take around in flight, gain a circle, altitude, the circle and fly becoming tighter as he elevates until he's just about ! ' out of sight. At that point, he'll begin to chirp and then begin his free-fall. the at horizon. He plummets down, only 20 or 30 feet from and animals around him, his boyhood days brought him in contact with all sorts of people. "I was fourteen when I would carry water up the railroad to the railroad workers, all jailbirds, you know. Remember the bandy-dancers?" he asks with a twinkle in his eye. "Well I carried water for those boys at forty cents an hour. I used to have to carry it all the way up, two pails full of water, that was work! What used to break my heart, though, was when these great big hulking guys would yell, 'Come on here with that water!' They'd take one big dipper full, then another big dipper full, and the third one couldn't finish, they'd throw away." Spending an afternoon in the woods and on back roads with Carl Libardi is sort of straight his point of origin." Carl Libardi's tales don't limit themselves to animals and plants. "I'll never forget the old as we Bob Smart place," he begins drive to his Middlefield nursery. "There's a cellar hole there now on the right as you go up to Middlefield from Chester. The house has been vacant for years. Newspapers dated from 1840 were on the walls. There was an old organ in there which I repaired. Mice had been in that organ for generations, so I cleaned it all out. There was a staircase behind the organ and a mirror in front of it. Anyway, one day, I started to make a little noise on that organ, and the next thing I knew, I wasn't alone any more. I looked into the mirror and there was a man with closecropped white hair and a stubbly white beard. He was like, well, travelling Nothing, not the faintest subtlest holding a pair of shoes in "May-bells, smell acquiring a hands and he was staring at me. I don't know which of us was more frightened. It turned out that he had hitched a ride from his They new are gregarious. ' ' a river with a comes alive. sound nor the lacks meaning. It's set of tools (after all like the senses are our tools). And it's a generous man who can give that to someone. or Spring beauty, live in colonies. down river-boat captain. Everything Photos by Ellie Lazarus -6- �Getting Acquainted With Ferns by Virginia Ladd Otis We New Ferns" to realize that Ms. Parsons wrote it first hand and from the heart. It is completely illustrated with drawings which need only a wash of green to bring them to life; and, best of all, the text is enhanced Englanders are blessed with who great natural riches. Lowell Thomas, traveled everywhere, upon being asked to name the most beautiful part of the world he had seen, called our hill had by accounts of the author's expeditions in the field and by ferny quotes from such and masters as Shakespeare, Scott, Thoreau, the latter being her favorite country, specifically the Berkshires, the loveliest. To truly appreciate the virile greens of New England, with their complement of blue lakes and streams, go spend a summer in the Arizona-Utah desert. Scenes of verdant valleys and groves will quotee. Judging by an outdoor photograph of the author on the flyleaf, she was a fine looking young woman, clad rather quaintly from our point of view ... in a sfraw hat, high-necked white blouse with mutton sleeves, and an ankle length skirt! With haunt your mind like a mirage. You are always thirsty, dusty, hot, and dry. Surrounded by rainbow colors of red, yellow, and purple in all shades, you find yourself desperately homesick for green! A good part of New England's lush charm is due to the ferns. What is . fresher than a bank of ferns gracefully over the trail, mountain ledges! Frances Parsons urged parents to introduce children to outdoor hobbies, and went on to enumerate the values of nature interests to children and adults alike. Besides the obvious bodily health from outdoor a symphony of greens in intricate design of fronds seen through fronds, seen through more fronds, stipples with shadow and sunlight. The hardwood grove is floored with the hayscented ones, all serrated and tapered to a fine point, green-gold in sunlight, rich green in exercise, there comes from shadow, delicate and feathery, if any field seldom needs sleeping pills; for one feels "the golden doze of mind which follows much exercise in the open air." The author states, one assumes with some authority, that "there is no such preventative for insomnia, no such cure for nervousness or dancing on their springy One of our favorite books is a hand-medown fern guide by Frances Theodora Parsons, 1899. One doesn't have to read "How to Know the health of mind that The outdoor enthusiast stems. far into this copy of is relaxation from daily cares plus the stimulant of an absorbing interest. yielding to every breath of wind and sway- ing fluidly as . some difficulty we picture her dressed in this manner clambering (as she says) about forested brooks, down dark ravines, and up beside a woodsy path? At either side they wave . the -7- in �outdoor stems being used by the Indians in their weaving crafts. The cinnamon, however, her vacations were charted in vicinities where she could carry on her personal discoveries of ferns to add to her has central spore bearing fronds of reddish brown, while the interrupted bears masses morbid introspection as an pursuit." Evidently all she had included about of darker spores midway along its green fronds. The bracken is another variety could hope to find in the eastern States. She reminded her readers which grows several feet high, a strong fern, but coarse and weedy in appearance. "life lists", until one United that on woods, all Also called the brake, an ordinary walk through fields or the would-be fern expert could become acquainted with ten to fifteen varieties. Fern study, as any other nature hobby, whether of birds, rocks, or whathave-you, carries the advantage of costing very little to pursue. As naturalist John "The most Burroughs reminds us, precious things in life are nearest at hand, without money and without price. Each of us has the whole wealth of the universe at our very door." On our winter rambles we often observe number of evergreen distribution and it has a worldwide often refereed to in is "The Lady of the Lake", Scott's hero exclaims: "The heath this night will be my bed The bracken literature. In . curtain for A gay little aspect in . fern of roadside and field is the sensitive fern, fruiting . my head." its light damp having a rippled green leaves. Its single fronds are noticeably dark and they mature in June, as do the cinnamon and interrupted spores and others. A lover of both sun and shade, the hay-scented fern, delicate as green lace, covers ledges in deeply shaded woods,.the fronds being leathery, rather small, with round whole growing along the edges of fields and under hardwoods in shifting sunlight and shadow. One perceives the sylvan beauty of these ferns all along the country roads of hillcountry, in Vermont russet fruit dots (or sori) on the underside especially. when Thoreau called this fern "the cheerful community of the Polypody" and labeled it "strangely interesting, even them with outlandish," saying, "It is a fabulous, mythological form such as prevailed when the earth and air and water were inhabited A favorite fern growing more rarely in dusky hardwoods is the beech fern, delicate and downy, growing low to the ground in a triangular shape ending in a fine point. Other familiar wood's species are the marginal shield and spinulose wood ferns, both evergreens; the small New York fern; and the silvery spleenwort, a vigorous fern of medium size bearing half-moon shaped fruit dots on the backs of the upper fronds. a fern acquaintances, including the handsome, hardy Christmas fern, and the polypody, or rock fern. The latter is usually found on large rocks or hillsides, in spore. by those laurel extinct fossilized creatures that About the end of April, the osmundas, or ostrich ferns, begin to unroll their fiddle heads, this large fern being the much touted edible variety. These magnificent sunny-banked swampy streams, places or along and have our thoughts we connect birch and maple groves, with and lady's slipper, and with the thrush's song. we find." giants grow in In Silvery at first, the fruit dots later turn dark brown. Quite rare spore-bearing fronds in midsummer. In the woods or at the wood's edge stand the its and cinnamon ferns. Both species grow circle-wise and were once known as "basket ferns", the strong the small grape fern, fronds coarsely serrated, holding spore stalk stately interrupted is above. The rattlesnake its fern manner, branching into three fronds from a single stem; but it grows 8- in similar �is larger and summer more to tell the species apart above the plant like a banner. Truly beautiful is the maidenhair fern with its green tresses arranged in a circulet atop the wiry stem. The maidenhair spleenwort must be the shyest of ferns; and but once did we find a specimen poised delicately in the crevice of a damp cliff wall above a moun- the fruit By pressing the individual ferns and mounting them in a scrapbook, one can make one's own fern guide. We the fronds. doubt if we could approach the expertise of Frances Theodora Parsons, but we can still prove her theories on the relationship of physical and mental health to out-door tain-side cavern. We and sometimes the only way is by inspecting dots, or sporangia, on the back of their variety, finely serrated. In late the light brown spore stalk rises find the ferns quite bewildering in pursuits! ••• Middlefield Boys* Club (A "history" based only upon memories dating back to the year 1908) by Richard Waite RAZZLE - DAZZLE - ZIP MIDDLEFIELD'S BOYS' CLUB approximately twenty young farm boys ranging in ages from twelve to eighteen who lived in this hill town more than sixty years ago. It was delivered not only in our home town on many occasions but in such metropolitan communities as Pittsfield, While and New York — RAH RAH RAH - - That such a club did come into being was due to the interest and efforts of a Miss Alice B. Church, descendant of some of the town's early settlers and operators of woolen mills in the town. It was she who not only "sparked" the idea but opened her home for our meetings and guided us in our selection of officers. How often we met we cannot recall; what we do remember is that stormy weather rarely kept us at home on meeting nights. She gave us an elementary education in the ramifications of parliamentary procedures and stimulated our interest in local, state, and City. cheer probably was not delivered with the finesse of a college cheering game - of travel. this section at a football - "Shank's Mare" was our principal means This was the "Cheer" of a group of Springfield, Boston, BOOM BAH - for enthus- iasm, vigor, and just plain noise generated by the group involved, it could not be surpassed. Its author is unknown. As far as we can recall - after a lapse of more than six decades the existence of a - we club like ours, in a small rural farming national affairs. Regularly, community of only a few hundred souls, was unique. With our homes spread out over an area of more than twenty square the reports of our secretaries and treas- miles, with many of us attending and conducted in good order whatever business seemed necessary. We especially recall one of our treasurers reporting meeting after meeting that the Club had a treasury balance of $2.99 not urers, "dis- trict" schools, our opportunities for getting meet other boys were more or less confined to those who lived in our immed- to iate districts. And needless to listened to - too bad, considering the value of the dollar at the time. say, -9- Club members were encour- �aged to participate in discussions of current issues, out of which came two retiring to the church's horse sheds (long memorable debates. One debate was to decide which of two of our most famous presidents Washington or Lincoln was the greater individual. We also debated whether it was Admiral Peary or Mr. Cook who really reached the North Pole. We do not remember who the winners were; really, all were winners since no small amount of time was spent poring over history and consulting daily news- the trading of rabbits by those papers to support positions or the other the of Sometime after the Club had been organized and seemed to be functioning in good shape, its activities began to draw the attention of boys who either were outside the age limitations or chose not to belong. Among this group our club was known "The Bright Boys' Brigade". centers as Pittsfield, Boston, and Nantasket Beach, and two trips to New York City. "debated". We were also encouraged to develop any latent theatrical skills by putting on "shows" at the local Town Hall, which were well patronized by local citizens. Especially during the summer months, summer with the influx of played to many full visitors, as Probably the high points of activity experienced by our club members were the trips that were taken to such metropolitan one being in favor of principles for who owned this species of livestock. — — down) following meetings since torn and for some of us, travel time by horse and buggy and public transportation would approximate two In that era, to Pittsfield hours, in contrast to today's easy half- hour automobile drive. we Our houses, often with the first trip, to Pittsfield, provided parents and friends accounted for these many "firsts" for most of us: visiting a museum, eating in a restaurant, and going turn-outs rather than the quality of our to a "SRO" sign out. Probably the loyalty of moving picture theater. Not very exciting by today's standards! As indicated earlier, this trip was only an introduction to much more extensive travel. How this and later trips were made performances. As far as we know, none of our members aspired to the professional stage. Some time after Miss Church had the Club organized and functioning, it seemed possible its ister of the local church. A. Estabrook. It Rev. may have been William that we were getting out of hand and needed to have the kind of discipline a man - especially a clergyman - might provide. Whatever the reason, Mr. Estabrook met regularly with the Club and took an active its activities until exist. Fortunately, contributed One much activity to the Club's activities. which neither Miss Church nor Mr. Estabrook supervised or participated in, and in which only a few of the club members were did not We now assume that these and probably others, including local citizens and parents, were our benefactors. To the best of our knowledge, their names have never been revealed. Our horizons were further widened by a trip to Boston and Nantasket Beach, probably by an "excursion" train that ran a Dr. Hurlburt. two men. Miss the Club ceased to he was highly respected as an individual as well as a clergyman and part in apparently concern us, and were never revealed to us as far as we can remember. But among those who had summer homes in our town at the time was a Mr. David C. Coe of Longmeadow who was one of Springfield's leading tailors, and who was one of our tour guides on later trips. Assisting him on these trips was a Springfield dentist, members, in a relatively orderly manner, she asked for help from the min- to financially involved was that of - 10- Church, �' between Springfield and Boston during the By train we went YMCA to Albany to spend the where we experienced summer months. night in a had influence with the Boston and Albany Railroad, for one of the express trains running from Chicago to Boston was "flagged" at the Middlefield station early in the morning to take us aboard. Probably this was the first and only time in the rail- tile-lined pool. This Getting to Springfield was arranged by someone who apparently road's history that an express train made swimming in an indoor, was in sharp contrast to our local swimming holes. Early the following morning we boarded a Hudson River Dayline boat the "Hendric Hudanother "first" - voyage to New City. While we probably reflected very little at the time upon the scenic aspects of the trip (we do have rather imposing hills in Middlefield) or the historic areas by which we cruised, the memory son" York a pick-up in our town. Upon our arrival at Boston's South we were immediately introduced Station, to the rush hardly had and noise of metropolitan we emerged from South life; of Station came roaring overhead at what seemed to be only slightly less than super- sonic speed. Awed by the sight and sound, one of our members collided with some force with a baby carriage, much to the disgust of the lady who had a definite concern for the occupant of the carriage. a first sight of memory that when 'natural' on the outside of a securely locked door with the key on the inside, thus creating some suits are quite a lot near-panic situations. Whoever locked doors back home? Sight-seeing in the New York area included an evening more revealing than those we saw on the at Nantasket.) It was a tired bunch of who our was the only coolant. Our headquarters in the city was the Mills Hotel, where spring locks on the bedroom doors frequently created situations where occupants found themselves beach kids It is ice water for most, if not all of us; a swim in the ocean; doing the many attractions made it all a day to remember. (Inciden- swim stays with us. establishments of that era salt today's it all for a down-river huge ice houses along the banks of the upper Hudson River and we now wonder about the amount of pollution consumed in the homes and public eating train tally, - there were onto Atlantic Avenue than an elevated A boat trip down the harbor; - at arrived in Springfield to spend Coney Island, a "rubber-neck" bus tour of the Bowery, Central Park, a visit to the night with our hosts in Springfield and Longmeadow. A sight-seeing trip in the home Springfield area and back in the afternoon. New York City the Club staged a "show" presumably to raise money. The finale was a song to the tune of "The Old Oaken Bucket". The first few lines are recalled as: "We're off on our trip to New York, Prior to another trip Coney Island, Your kindness in - to helping we ne'er shall Sightseeing bus forget We tires) have Coe for a pilot, the doctor to Boy s in New York City. (Note solid Photograph taken circa 1914 Middlefield Club. Dick Waite second fi'om left. help him And we '11 take in the sights of New York. ' Grant's - 11 - Tomb (then out in what was rela- �tively the open country) and an elevator ride observation Building", then, deck we believe, the second tallest building in the city. ride so terrified one of our was only with great On by "Singer the of some home." to and return This elevator members that — afforded those between the United States and Europe. We also saw the "steerage" accommodations under which so many immigrants to the United States traveled. During World War I, this was one of the ships by which U.S. service-men were transported between the United States and Europe, though not traveling traveled home to Middlefield business Fully half of the original first-class known of milking members are have died. The whereabouts of they are living, is not known. Those who are living and who have conothers, to if tributed to the preparation of this "his- tory" include Ralph Bell, Amasa Graves, and Richard Waite (all of Middlefield) and Russell Ferris of Westfield. On November first class. On one the feeding the pigs and chickens, weeding the crops, and harvesting the hay. But we had "seen the world" and liked what we saw. There was yet another trip to New York this time by night boat from Hartford, Connecticut, the details of which seem to have been lost in time. persuaded to ride down. We "tube" under the Hudson River to the New Jersey shore where we went aboard the North German Lloyd liner the "Kaiser Wilhelm 11". Here we came face- who to cows, it he was rode the difficulty that to-face with the luxuries train to Springfield, a night with hosts there, and back we were walking 19th, 1976, Ralph and Elia York, a couple of Bell celebrated their sixty-fifth wedding anniversay here is Middlefield. When they men were overheard commenting on the nature of our group. To the question: "I wonder what that bunch is", the response was, "Probably some bunch from an were married, the suit Ralph wore was made by the David C. Coe tailors, fulfilling a promise made by Mr. Coe that he would give a suit of clothes to the first insane asylum or a bunch of orphans from member occasion, as along a sidewalk in New of the Middlefield Boys' Club to be marrried. There certainly were many other experiences in the relatively short history of the Middlefield Boys' Club which should be recorded but, unfortunately, they have been forgotten. Before it is too late, we want to record as best we can these experiences that meant so much to those of us who were members of our Club. We offer a belated "Thank You" to the memory of all parents and friends who supported our David C. Coe and his associates, to Rev. William Estabrook for his steadying influence. And especially we pay tribute to the memory of Miss Alice B. Church, who made it all possible. activities; to Some members of Boys Club at Coney Island. ' Dick Waite second from left, second row. - 12- �Members of the Middlefield Boys Club ' Ralph Bell Luke Benis Cecil Deceased Deceased Deceased Brown Alfred Churchill Alfred Cone ? Carleton Cone ? Russell Ferris Westfield Amasa Graves Joseph Kelley Elias Paul Nickerson Harold Pease Ralph Pease Roland Pease Merrick Stockwell Richard Sweeney Middlefield William Sweeney Richard Waite Henry Curley Middlefield Florence Lyman Deceased Deceased Deceased Deceased Deceased Deceased (A Pittsfield Middlefield 9 summer resident) ••• Granville's Loyalist Minister: Rev. Jedidiah Smith by Helena Duris and Barbara Brainerd well It is known that the town of Gran- of raising a large family. The Massachusetts, distinguished itself during the Revolutionary War by sending a ville, first years of Jedidiah 's ministry in of patriots to fight for the were peaceful and profitable ones. He was an excellent preacher and cause of independence. Not so well known fostered for a while a revival of religion, same town harbored was a Loyalist - a sympathizer with King George III of England. In a series of adding to the church thirty new members in the year 1757 alone. Gradually, however, he fell under the influence of Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton, Mass- strange and sometimes bizarre events, this achusetts, man was things, that "all adult large is number the fact that this within its rustic borders a Granville gentleman who dismissed from his position as Church pastor of the First Congregational Church, who who among other Members of the advocated, are not scandalous" be packed up most of his worldly goods, rounded up some fifteen members of his family and emigrated to the remote territory of Louisiana. Jedidiah Smith was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale in 1750. On December 1, 1756, he was ordained as minister of the church in Granville. He was given a settlement of one hundred dollars and a salary of fifty dollars which was later raised to seventy dollars. He married, and purchased from John Spelman ninety acres of land on which he built a house and settled down to the chore "The Parsonage" Smith. -13- built in 1751 by Rev. Jedidiah �allowed to take communion. This aroused the anger of many who felt that "Stoddard- eanism", as al for it was was far too liber- the Congregational Church. They that only persons that called, is, avowed to intended to sail down the Connecticut River to the Atlantic Ocean and to follow the coast around to the mouth of the Miss- felt issippi River. who were "regenerate," be Only one of Rev. Smith's sons did not go along on the journey. This was Jedidiah the spirit of Christ, in should be allowed the privilege of communion. Council after council was called in to Smith, living in advise and heal the difficulties with who was already married and Blandford. Sumner Gilbert Wood, Jr., in his Ulster Scots and Blandford Scouts, "a most impor- the Granville church, but without effect. refers to Jedidiah, Jr., as On town voted "that Mr. Smith should be dismissed," and he was dismissed accordingly on that same tant day. that he "probably differed from the polit- April 16, 1776, the townsfolk concerning Rev. his but there are other the history of the to sully with the taint of Toryism, states sentiments of his father." the very beginning the voyage of From the Smith family was marked with trouble Loyalist leanings. Certainly such a patriotic approval, name ical Smith's community must have expressed some in town," and, evidently not wishing History does not record the attitude of the functionary and tragedy. At Middletown their deparwas delayed for some time since the vessel they were to board, co-owned by the notorious General Lyman, was suspected of harboring British officers who were escaped prisoners. After the arrest and then the release of Lyman, the family finally was able to sail from Middletown about the middle of May. They endured a "boisterous passage" to the mouth of the Mississippi and up the river as far as New Orleans. Here they met with more delay. At the time of their arrival the Spanish authorities had placed in effect a quarantine due to the presence of small pox, and it was not until the middle of August that the family was able to procure a small craft to take them up the river to Natchez. Their vessel had gone no more than two miles when a sudden squall arose, nearly capsizing them. They were successful in making an emergency landing at the estate of an English gentleman, with whom they dis- reasons ture which must have contributed to his desire to depart from the area. For one thing, he had seven sons who would have been liable for enlistment as soldiers in the Continental Army if the family were to remain in Granville. Also his good friend. General Phineas Lyman of Suffield, Connecticut (a well-known Tory, by the way) offered to Rev. Smith a large tract of land in Louisiana. The ties with General Lyman were further cemented by the fact that his son had promised marriage to one of Rev. Smith's daughters. The group of emigrants was increased by the addition of four more persons. Rev. Smith's brother, Elnathon, who was married to Hannah Bates of the illustrious Bates family of Granville, had been away in service with General Lyman for two years. He now wrote a letter requesting that his wife and three children be allowed accompany Jedidiah's family to Louisiana where Elnathon would meet them and all would start a new and prosperous life decided to leave a great part of their belongings (furniture, farming utensils, bed- together. Thus, counting Jedidiah's wife their small craft and At that period the country was settled only for a short distance above New Orleans and then at scattered intervals. to ten children, there were ding, wearing apparel, and library), since sixteen Smiths who set out from Granville for Middletown, Connecticut. From there they - 14- was over-laden. �Finding accommodations for the large family was often difficult. The weather was both heads of the family, suffered greatly from sickfrom privations of every kind extremely warm with showers two or three times a day, exposing the group to alter- ness and from the raids of savage Indians. Furthermore, the property which they had left with the English gentleman near New — nating hot sun and cold rain. After fifteen Orleans was confiscated by the Spanish days of this discomfort, they arrived at Fort Adams, about four miles below Natchez. It was here that they received the tragic news that Mr. Elnathon Smith had died. To add to the family's distress, very shortly thereafter Rev. Smith was seized by a violent Aggravated by the inclement fever. England was now at war with Spain. No aid was ever forthcoming from the formerly friendly General Lyman nor from his son, the Smith girl's intended husband. The saga of the Jedidiah Smith family ends here, but, although unrecorded, the luck of the unhappy group apparently took a turn for the better. The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, contains a portrait of Calvin Smith who was the youngest son of Jedidiah and was born authorities since weather and the uncomfortably crowded conditions aboard the small boat, his condition worsened rapidly. Jedidiah became delirious and, in a fit of frenzy, leaped into the river. Although he was saved from a watery grave, the drenching heightened his fever, and seven days later, without ever having regained his "rational senses", he died. The date of his death was September 2, 1776. He was buried at Natchez on a high cliff, two hundred feet that the remains of this once-prominent have completely and socially. Over the years descendants of the Smith clan return to visit the "home town" of Granville. The most recent visitor was Mr. E.D. Ogden of Natchez. It is evident that in spite of hardships and tragedies, the progeny of Jedidiah Smith, Loyalist, of Granville, have become respected and since fallen into the Mississippi River so citizen is a success both economically above the river, in the then common burial ground. His grave, along with others, has Granville He portrayed as a prosperous, middle-aged gentleman, quite clearly in Granville. dis- appeared. prosperous citizens of the states of Louis- The band of travelers, now deprived iana and Mississippi. of The main source for this article is a hand-written record labeled, "An Interesting Account of Jedidiah Smith. " The author is unknown. The document was found in the office of the Town Clerk of Granville. Material was also taken from the following: Walker, Williston. A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Wilmington Society of Fine Arts. American Painting and Sculpture. Lebanon Valley Offset, Inc., 1975. Wood, Sumner Gilbert. Ulster Scots and Blandford ••• -15- Scouts. Anneville, Penn.: West Medway, Mass.: 1928. �Me and contributed by Bertha Bronson poem and story was taken from a 1966 copy of the magazine "Good Old Days", and was penned by an unknown author for an old time phonograph record, in the 1860's right after the Civil War. This We were both brought up in a country town Was me and Jim, And the whole world seemed to frown On me and him. was me and him. And we heard the screech of shot and shell. The snarl of the guns and the rebel yell. And we followed the flag through the battles of hell. Did me and Jim. At school we never was given a chance to learn Or be Jim 's friend. And we both wore patches on our pants. 'Twas the day Death came J1 Did me and Jim. we fought at Seven to Jim, Oaks, and excuse me please, but I sorta choke. Talking of him. But we both grew hearty, hale, and strong. Did me and Jim. We knew every note in a thrush 's song. Did me and Jim. For his rugged brown hand I held in mine, Till his soul passed out in the picket line, Where an angel waited to count and sign. The death ofJim. We knew where the bluebirds built their nests, Then Ifought on till the war was done, without poor Jim, Was given a sword intead of a gun. When Spring tipped over the mountain Why the robins all wore solid vests,;; Did me and Jim. ^ , crest. i^; And I thought of him. 3r\. Then we fell in love, As most folks do. I Did me and Jim. And Ifaced about for my whole life I was quite a me and him. ' up in the race you see, Was me and him. and she answered me no, Jim followed suit, and she wouldn 't have him, and told him so, I popped man in the country place She gave me a smile with a blessingface. And asked about him. And I told of how as a soldier brave. He fought and died, as she sat alongside. a quilten party or huskin bee. We were even route I left with Jim. And she treated us both alike did she, At 's But not with Jim. We was out with the same gal though. We two. That 's wore an eagle when mustered out. On my shoulder strap; And sol kissed her because she cried, it first, Kissed her for Jim: Then I married her one bright day For me and Jim. 2' Forbidden fruit we called her then. in June, And I'm afraid we cussed a little, and then: — And often We prayed she would live and die a plain old maid. under the stars and moon We talked of him. Did me and Jim. And after awhile when the baby came, And him wantin a name. Then the war broke out, and Company B caught me and Jim. We were both on a trip for the Union, ' We just called him, Jim. see. - 16- a boy, �Nooney Obituary contributed Frank S. Nooney The story of the life, activities, and accomplishments of James Nooney, one of Chester's most unusual sons, is now all but forgotten. Only a few distant nephews and nieces are familiar with it, he having left no posterity. Some of the older members of the family have, over the years, acquired bits and pieces of information about Uncle James, but the most complete available account of his life is contained in a eulogistic obituary which apparently was published in a now unknown area newspaper at the time of his death in 1865. Let that account tell the story: Obituary Upon The DEATH OF PROFESSOR JAMES NOONEY 1895 - CHESTER'S REMARKABLE SON Astronomer, Scientist, Linguist, who lately died at the Old Homestead on Chester Hill. James Nooney, probably the most noted man born and northwestern reared in Chester, recently Britian boundary between and the United States Great in 1850-60. died, well advanced in his 85th year, at the This was Nooney's great service, but he home was through of his boyhood where his whole and excellent man. for over ten years he had led a singularly recluse life. Notwithstanding that his active work had brought him into contact and sympathy with eminent men in various walks of life, Mr. Nooney absolutely sequestered himself from the world in his last years, and could not be persuaded to appear at the church centennial celebration at Chester Center last October. Chester is one of the most modest places in New England, and yet she has a pride in Professor James Nooney, when she remembers that the United States government chose him as astronomer and mathematician in running the boundary line between Mexico and this country in 1849, and again in locating the life a most useful James Nooney was born on Chester Hill, near where Charles Ingalls now lives, in a house since demolished which the old residents called "the house on the hill". had been a hotel. His birth occurred August 12, 1810, and he died very near the same place, on Good Friday, and was buried in the old graveyard on Easter Sunday. It is an interesting coincidence that an astronomer should die and his remains be laid to rest on anniversaries determined by astronomical calculations. Nooney's family was originally Irish, like It many of the settlers of Murrayfield, as the territory -17- which comprised nearly all of the �' present towns of Chester and Huntington owner of the ship Orpheus of 1000 tons He was a hard working farmer's boy, and had to labor and save in every way to enable himself to get an education, for he had no help from home. He was twenty-eight years old when he burden, carrying 150 passengers. was called. was graduated Yale College, and he had distinguished himself that he was so at 29, 1838, and did ing receive his to Nooney remained Professor travelling over our 1859, being appointed astronomer on the commission of the United States and Great Britain to settle the northern boundary line, on the 49th parallel between the Pacific and the Great Lakes. The Reverend E.C. Haynes of Chester writes: He joined the commission at the point where the 49th intersects the monuments were mark August of 1859 he passed a glacier of one or two miles in extent, and 100 or 200 feet thick; his direction and traversed every state except Rhode Island. ' fix the points along the set to line. In solid blue ice like the great does not appear, but he did. He had been over every territory, and a considerable part of this journey was made before 1848, when he was appointed astronomer and mathematician on the southern boundary survey. This work occupied him somewhat more than a year. While engaged in running this boundary between Mexico and the United States, Professor Nooney possessed himself of a piece of the coral of which was built the fort of San Juan de glaciers in the Alps, and about 6000 feet above the ocean level. In September 1860, he was on the summit that divides the waters flowing into the Atlantic from those flowing to He could in five minutes drink from the brooks running in the different directions. There the Missouri is a small brook, which he could step across. So also the Saskatchewan which empties into Hudsons Bay. The great Columbia rises near that place, and flows to the Pacific the Pacific. Oliva, at Vera Cruz, taken in our Mexican War. Afterward, Mr. Nooney went to California and in April, 1850, he was engaged in laying out a new city in associa- southwesterly. The great Colorado rises a little south of that point, and empties into Gulf of California.* The mountain peaks arose nearly a mile above him, and the tion with the surveyor-general of the state. He was parallel waters of the Pacific. His work was to establish astronomical stations, and under whole country. He has Rhody Bahama joint some years ''little sailed to the Professor Nooney was again called into the Why he should have left out He the service of the government in April, without waitdiploma. Professor so, Nooney spent took in Islands in March, 1858. navy for two years, cruising in the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf Squadron, and stopping at various ports. He returned from this service in 1840, and was appointed tutor at Yale, and remained until 1843. From 1844 to 1847 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the Western Reserve College, then located at Hudson, Ohio. in traffic as a passenger. appointed before graduation to be professor of mathematics in the United States Navy and was ordered to join the sloop £'ne on June He Samoa, where he stopped twelve days, and he also touched on the Hawaiian and Fijian Islands. Returning in March, 1853, he visited many of the South Sea Islands; at Honolulu he sold his ship and returned to San Francisco lading for two miles above the level of the ocean, and were clad in snow all summer. It snowed on those peaks, while rain was falling for three days in the little valley where he then was. There was erected an observatory and county surveyor, and also ran private surveys at a high price, obtaining for one job $15,000. In June 1852, he went to Australia, sailing from San Francisco as commander and halflater elected - 18- �eral years in an astronomical instrument was set up, and by the most careful observations and New Haven, and lived in Springfield on Allen Street for a year. He then went to Florida, where he remained calculations the exact position of the 49th a few years, and suffered from a serious was there determined. A stone pyramid was erected to show the dividing line in all time to come. It was parallel of latitude which hurt his health. Then he went to Kansas as a place where he would find a remedial climate, but there fever and ague drove him away. After a brief stay in Michigan, he returned of yellow attack probably from this point that through an instrument along the swath cut to run the line that he could see the Pacific Ocean.* He finished his work of actual surveying on October 25, 1860. But he found it neces- fever, say to make copies of all field notes and computations. To this end he began and continued a dreary march of 35 days, often enveloped in snow, and nearly all the time drenched with rain, swimming great rivers now and again; he arrived in good health December 1860, 1, Washington Depot, Colville at There he spent a comfortable winter preparing his notes and calculations for transit to Washington, D.C. territory. Professor Nooney to the old March 4, consumed more than left Colville 1861, and the journey spring, found awaiting him orders bors, to go once to at He survey, which, of course, he did. returned to California, where he did public service. He was for Company in 1863, then much anniversary of the Center Church last But "like all true students", writes Reverend Mr. Haynes, "he was ever reaching upwards. He continued his studies up to the time of his last illness. He was a fine linguist and studied the Bible in various languages and was a member of the College Church in New Haven." October. and carried on the some fourteen years. Returning to the East, Professor Nooney made his home for sev- *Note: It Hayne's will be apparent to letter, particularly some and yet one without any pretense. became in a sense a habit with him and he was not present at the notable some time calling of surveyor in California for that there are inaccuracies in the Reverend with respect to the topography of the area where the 49th parallel of latitude crosses the Rocky Mountains. For instance, the Pacific Ocean is not visible from any point in the Montana Rockies because of distance and intervening mountain ranges. The "summit" of the Continental Divide mentioned probably refers to Triple Divide Mountain in what is now Glacier National Park. Waters from that area do flow northeast to Hudson Bay, southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, and west to the Pacific Ocean. They do not flow to the Colorado River and the Gulf of California. Tributaries of the Missouri, Columbia, and Saskatchewan Rivers do rise there but not the main rivers. These inaccuracies were undoubtedly due to a lack of on Seclusion his superintendent of the public institute, and he was engineer of the Humboldt Tunnelling Hill, when he died at a venerable age. He was a man little known by his neigh- a month; he rode 400 miles on horseback, arriving at San Francisco April 10. He Washington and make the report of homestead on Chester the Cook Brook Road, and there passed his last ten years from October, 1884, until this knowledge about what was then a - 19- vast, wild, and remote region. �The Pine by William Rose There 's something calm and majestic Something wild and still sublime and allfantastic Rare especially is the Pine. Lovely, sweet, Oaks are stalwart, maples useful, Willows weep their tears sublime All have beauty, grace, or strength, but None more glorious than the Pine. Most trees change from green As the summer turns to fall. to crimson While the Pine through every season Is most changeless of them all. Always green, the Pine in winter While her comrade trees do sleep Protects, By Elm it seems, her sleeping sisters the vigil watch she keeps. trees shade the dogs and horses. Just as hemlocks serve the steer. Does the Pine tree offer shelter? Yes! for partridge andfor deer. Ash is hewn for sleds and sleigh pins. Walnut beds will last for time; But the houses that we live in Are the best when built from pine. Only groans we hear from hickories. Alders ne er give aught but creaks; Oh, for more trees like the Pine tree With its constant whisperings sweet! Should the Maker of all nature And the Keeper of all time. me which tree is my favorite Bid I 'd say - ' 'Maker, 'tis the Pine ' '. with permission -20- �Varied Green by Madeline Hunter I wish for unfettered freedom For a varied-green meadow With a motionless willow That weeps in joy, not sorrow Whose gnarled roots have penetrated the And give account of the years. soil I seek the comfort of wisdom an ancient farmer, a discovering child greened meadow that rocks rocks a regeneration rhythm rocks the message of our time rocks in peace will be juxtaposed I seek I seek the That That That That With the cradle of civilization. Drawing by Michael Rubin. - 21 - �West Worthington Indians This tiny booklet, OF 2'/2 inches by 3V* inches is spotted and yellowed with age. It once belonged to Mrs. H.G. Porter and is now in the possession of her grandson, Mr. Edward Porter of Worth- THE. ington. M.^Ak _ Mile, "^v\>o oj rt« iOorTV) u«dri»l It was printed in 1881 by J.M. Stearns, Dalton, Massachusetts. Br«Hcl, 4rtl£. Chauncey Stephenson, the author, was old character year* /jo. who a quaint traveled about peddling salve from a basket that he carried on his arm. The entire contents of the booklet is quoted herewith: Chapter 1 Location, Rock Formation, &c. This very remarkable spot, the very plain above the and certain and the course of the stream, north and south, seems to be near the axle of the nearly perpendicular strata, as it was thrown up site of a The is lo- cated in the west part of the town of Worthington, Hampshire Co., Mass. about twenty miles west of Northampton, and fifteen miles east of Pittsfield, and directly on the original Boston & Albany Turnpike, so famous for staging before the days of the great geological upheaval of a very remote period of time. The springs and stream above mentioned have been famous for the yield of the "speckled beauties". A middle aged man; Mr. A. Granger, has told the writer that he had formerly taken therefrom trout that weighed two and two and a half pounds each, and in early times people have taken them still larger, through the ice on the pond, with their hands. This remarkable favorable location was doubtless found by the Indians at some very remote period; either by ascending the stream from Westfield and Huntington, or, which I think more probable, by the eastern route through Swift River, (where the relics mentioned in the following chapter have been found). East and West Cummington, and Jordanville, to the Only half a mile to the northeast of the once famous Snake Hill (so named from the tortuous windings of the road as it ascends the rocky bluff into Peru) there are several large and deep springs of clear, cold water, with the brook issuing from them which constitutes the source of said stream of little over a mile south, descends in a succession of most beautiful cascades, to the depth of more than one hundred of water is feet. The volume not very large except in time of long or hard rains, Spring and Fall is considerable, producing a vast of splashing and foaming it is among when it amount the rocks: famous trout springs already described and to the pitfalls near them; to be des- the most wild and romantic Sylvan scenery imaginable, and by hundreds from all is a in Railroads. Rivulet, which after flowing a is sort of coarse Schistose or slate, small Tribe of the aboriginal inhabitants of America, Falls. ledge, or rock formation here, yearly visited scribed in the next chapter. parts of the Union. This rivulet turns several busy mills, for various wood manufactories, in its course Chapter The -22- II Pitfalls, for catching animals, &c. face of the country around the seat of �these wild sons of the forest, arrow-heads, stone hatchets, etc. like all of New England lying between the back of the main rivers, is broken into high hills Their burial ground, it would seem, was some twenty or thirty rods north, on still and ridges of abrupt and rocky ledges. The ancient pitfalls of this family of Indians; which ground central uated I higher, sandy ground, where one or is in a kind of natural basin of one mile in partially shall take as a in this description, sit- about diameter, of dry gravelly more decayed skulls have been found. Their corn field, of which the Indians always had one, was on level ground, about eight rods north-east of the pits, of nearly an acre in extent. This was found well cleared up when first settled by the Whites. Their wigwams were doubtless built in small tribe, or soil, very clear of stone, and about twenty rods east of the stream. There are two of them number, arranged in northerly and southerly directions and about three rods apart, the north one being somewhat the in a shallow excavation similar "to the pits, at the east end of the corn field, for the con- largest, they are oval in shape; in the polar eter; old residents say they diamhave formerly venience of watching the same. The number of these Indians probably never exceeded one hundred, and perhaps known them when they were fifteen feet in not direction, from two to three rods in more than half that number. The scarcity of game, caused by the depth, although in the process of culture around them they have been filled up with stone and earth to within about six feet of the surrounding surface. further indication of its pits, I former so far as GRAVE of the Chief. These stones showed very plainly the agency of human hands, not only in the settling of them, two feet in the ground, (they rise about two feet and a half above the surface), but also the shape of the stones, being very heavy, with a broad base in the ground. The top or exposed part, seemed to be rounded somewhat like a post, which was evidently done by percussion with other stones, and not with Numerous relics of this in the vicinity: my knowledge extends. I think they might have taken a large flat stone of the best quality for the or planks. purpose to be found in the vicinity, and by fashioning in their way, made a very good hill digger or scraper, and then by attaching strong thongs of bark or rawhide, and with a team of a dozen stout Indians, and with one of the largest and strongest to hold it, excavated the dirt, a bushel at a iron or steel instruments. been found Whites, With one suggestion as to the probable method of digging these very large pits, I now close my sketch. As we all know, they had no metallic utensils or implements of any kind, and no means of making boards discovered the head and foot sources was doubtless the the This was the only settlement of Indians, except the Stockbridges, in Western Mass. occupants; on about the same level as the of what of doubtless led to their withdrawal, or union with some other tribe. searching the primitive Forest for In some encroachment gradual people have such as flint load, with considerable celerity. ••• -23- �Hayden Pond by Doris W. Hayden am I from Littleville Reservoir into the swamp above Hayden Pond. This would then flow into Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Because authorities in Springfield declared it to be a "dirty pond", it was drained and only the brook remains. When the dam was removed, a big chestnut log was found in which the "gate" had been placed. Howard Mason and so grateful to Stone Walls for making information about an up and down sawmill available to me. I had seen the original at Mr. Mason's some time ago and spotted the section which was reprinted in 'our magazine and wanted to get a copy of that part of it. My interest stems from the fact that John Brockett, my husband's ancestor, bought eighty acres of land in Blandford in 1793 out of Farm Lot #43, known as Birch Meadow Lot from the brook running through it. Instead of making the brook a boundary on the west, he owned across it which seemed at first unusual. However, on thinking things through, it was evident he intended to dam the brook with the cooperation of a neighbor, perhaps James Campbell, who owned land to the south in ' ' ' Farm The was pond wonderful place, though. In early spring the peepers nearly burst themselves with their shrill, constant calling. One night my son said, "Mommy, can't you stop that noise?" The best I could do was close the window. At one time suckers ran up the little feeder brook to spawn. We had a wise old mother cat who always went down and sat a by a narrow place ready to scoop out a fish when it went by. She was pretty adept, Lot #44. too. A Redwing pond, later known as Hayden Pond, was made and a canal constructed from the squeaking like rusty hinges, with black ducks and colorful mallards doing "tip-ups", were always lower end to a mill erected on the neighbor's property. For many years real estate blackbirds, there in the spring. Once I saw a pair of show that John Brockett owned small black and white bufflehead ducks. one-half interest in the mill. Later on, his Occasionally there would be a blue heron descendants were owners. The mill is long gone although standing tax records site. I years. law am On last know its was operating for many sure it reading diaries of winter, I came my sawed on sticking out above the calls entries times operated the mill believe it was still in night long. all use for I many more years, but have no sure proof. Hayden Pond is no more. The City of Springfield bought all the land along the west side of Cobble Mountain Road a few years ago. They installed station in Huntington a sounded hay land. like the working of an old When disturbed, slammed against the surface pumping and a huge pipeline to Blandford to carry water, wood pond weeds. Their time pump. Several times otter were seen playing in the water but they never stayed long. In later years, beaver came and built their complex houses. My husband was not too happy about that because they raised the water level and flooded some of our best He some- different days. at times, looking for all the world like dried out bits of father-in- referring to the mill in 1864, with the board feet catch an unwary frog. were there Bitterns, too, I across stiffly to sounding when needed. crosswise. -24- like a flat tail of the water, breaking a board in half �skates wobbling around, tumbling down, Dragonflies darted above the pond and small schools of fish. We did not and trying up again, also experts moving along so easily and gracefully. If the ice was right on moonlit nights, the air was filled with shouts and calls swim take the there because of the possibility of encount- — ugly things! — with a bonfire or two to out of fingers and toes. chill One might paraphrase "This There were also water snakes seen at times. Swallows would do a sort of ballet dance above the pond in summer, swooping down to catch the insects just above the water. Kingfishers, too, made sudden dives to capture a fish. From my living room window, I often looked across the pond to see a row of glistening shells of big turtles sunning themselves on an old log. In winter, the pond was a safe mecca for skaters. No public maintenance there! The skaters cleared off the snow themselves when necessary. I have seen perhaps fifty skaters, young and old, at one amateurs with their new Christmas time ering leeches themselves picking but water striders made dimples on the surface, A look down through the water revealed other life such as pollywogs in various stages of development, newts, and is the house that Jack built" and say:"This is the mill that John built. This the pond, that ran the mill is than John built. These are the fish, that lived in the pond, that ran the mill that John built. These are the kingfishers, that caught the fish, that lived in the pond, that ran the mill that Johnbuih." And on and on, ad infinitum. What about the ecology Who of the area? can say that draining the pond was I am not an expert on such good or bad? matters but — I do know I miss a lot of enjoy- ment. Story of a British Deserter Daniel Prince by Virginia Ladd Otis A flows under the road, a woods road leads favorite place for hikers to visit in Williamsburg, close to the Goshen Line, is Burgoyne's Cave. The wild place of cliff past the cave a distance of perhaps half a mile. and tumbled rock received its name because of a visit by the British general and some of his men on their way to Boston The cave is screened from the road by markers show its location. There is no cave here at all, and a better name would be Burgoyne's Cliff or Cleft There is a narrow canyon between the parent cliff and a great slab which fell off some little time ago and stands four to six feet away, completely open to the sky. If the men slept here, they slept up and hemlock after their decisive defeat at the battle of Saratoga in 1777. One can reach the cave from the end of Old Clary Road, where a grassy wagon trees, but ribbon ! road proceeds to the woods. Another approach is made by a straight climb from Route 9 beginning past the steep cliffs on down one is heading north from Williamsburg to Goshen. Just beyond a settlement of small houses, where a stream the site, hill, as the floor is not level! A little brook flows nearby, and the spot is very cool, having a northern exposure with the sun seldom penetrating the shade of hem- left, if -25- �Burgoyne's men camped there in October, and perhaps they saw the same kinds of birds we did on one occasion pine grosbeaks flying through green shadows, bright as butterflies, and a flock of golden-crowned kinglets, lisping their joy to be alive. From the Williamsburg History we gain The marker of granite faced with was erected by William Miller, a locks. — this amusing concerning incident who camped British soldiers here: schist great- great grandson of Daniel Prince, probably in the 1930's. The marker is inscribed with a drawing of the British flag and the words: the "On his way back to Boston, General Burgoyne and a few straggling soldiers took shelter in a cave on the Clary farm. In the morning this unwelcome company entered the kitchen of owned by Samuel Barber, and snatched the milk jars from the farmhouse, then the shelves. In their making eagerness, they necessary to go on to Haydenville for breakfast under the spilled all of it, it old oak at Fairfield's Tavern." Nearby there Evidently one British soldier liked what he saw at this place, for, as the history relates, he "dropped out from the irregular line of march at Springfield and returned to Williamsburg. There an old road leading to Goshen, he built a log cabin. Later this man, Daniel Prince, married a Miss Packard of the neighborhood and reared a family. Among them were twin sons, James and Daniel, born in 1785." The site is close to the cave, and to find it, we continue on the old road and look for a break in the stone wall to the north, where an old sapping road passes through. This leads through a brushy area to an opening, where a hollow in the ground is marked by a triangular stone three and a half feet high and two to three feet wide. inscribed, is PLACE . In the is a rounded ledge on which also by Miller, PRINCE TWINS. vicinity one may find . BIRTH . a site where granite posts were quarried and cut, samples Hill still lying on the forest floor. Walnut towering above us beckons the ambi- tious climber, for some cliffs it is covered with hand- trees, relics of chestnut trees, and which have sheltered many genera- tions of porcupines. off the trees, When the leaves are one can look across to the high rise dorms at the University. Burgoyne's Cave is a fascinating spot which sets one's mind thinking over the when this become a citizen events of Revolutionary times, British soldier decided to of a i5' -26- new country. �. ' Henry Snyder by Lois Ashe Brown landmarks of their youth. His father, whose name he bears, was crushed to death by a falling tree when to visit familiar The following includes excerpts from an hour long visit and taping with Henry H. Snyder at his home, "Brickhaven" at Henry was only nine. After that, as man of the house, he grew up fast, working at a Worthington Four Corners. His wife of sixty years, the former Eva Decelles of Adams, died in early March and he lives in semi-retirement in the home they had variety of jobs. built up handkerchief. in Christian Hollow. Henry H. Snyder June 1977. at ' 'Brickhaven ' . . . old Coon line, District brother and four sisters. Henry attended School He classmates and tells his speaks fondly of the annual reunions with his trict with Coon of one time 50<( .not and the orchard. It was a 1915 stripped-down Ford truck chassis that changed the course of Henry's life. "A couple of fellows from Adams had used it to pull a plow on Cummington Hill where they were raising potatoes to get a farm deferment during World War I. When they finished and left town, they gave the truck to me for kindnesses my mother had done for them," recounts Henry. "By then, I was courting Eva and Born in 1895 on the Snyder farm over on Trouble Street close by the Worthington- Cummington town . Eleanor Ferguson's place tending the farm tion. the my At home by the time he was thirteen, he was cutting enough hay to feed eight cows and a horse all winter, besides cutting wood to keep the family warm. At the same time, he was working out for the neighbors. With his late brother-in-law, Lou Sweet, he worked for three years on Miss "In all the world, is there a place where you would rather live than in Worthington?" was my first question. "Right here in Worthington best place on earth acres of diamonds in my own back yard," replied Henry firmly and without hesita. job paid did together. Worthington, Photograph by Lois Brown . first a week and a red much," he said, "But it was one less mouth to feed at home." He speaks lovingly of his mother and her hard work and kindness to everyone. By the time he was eleven, he was working for his board and room and five dollars a month for Dr. Streeter in Cummington doing chores and driving a team of horses to Williamsburg hauling apples. Henry says he worked so hard that Mrs. Streeter was worried and urged her husband to put on a helper. Arthur Barlow was hired to help but Henry says they fooled around as boys will, and he chuckles as he confesses that he did more work alone than they ever board and room, built in 1951 after they sold the business and home they had "My Dis- when he and Eva entertained them at dinner and then took them on a bus ride around town -27- �" - needed a horse, so I sold it to a fellow over in West Worthington named Jones. He paid me $25 and I bought a horse with it. very small Well, in the spring Jones couldn't start the truck and he told it around town that I all at had stuck him. The word got to me and went over and told him that if he thought So had cheated him I'd buy it back. did. I took a kettle of hot water to up on the crank and it it, lost a cent. Once I sold 48 school busses to Carl Wallin of Hinsdale once. That was some order! For a number of years Henry hauled cars from Buffalo to dealers all over this half of Massachusetts. He got his first account by going to Mr. Shapiro in North Adams and I I I from him. By contracting directly with the car dealer he cut out the middleman and had all the business he could handle. Then the War came along and there were no more cars to haul. "There I was stuck with seven car carriers. But you know my friend, Eddie offering to pulled started, jes' like that." minus any modem accessories, Henry tells how he worked nights and weekends hauling grain, coal, cattle, and collecting scrap iron that he sold in Albany. Meanwhile, he was working as an apprentice carpenter for Charlie Kilbourn. Soon that was taking too much time from the sideline he was enjoying and he began to be absent from his carpentering job. "Finally, Mr. Kilbourn said to me, 'I like your work and I want you to stay, but either you work full time for me or not at all.' I went home that night and talked it over with Eva and she urged me to do what I thought best. So I gave a week's notice and went to trucking in earnest." "Shortly after, I was offered the job of With that down payment but I have never been cheated or truck, Carroll buy a car who owns carrier Riverside Park? Well, with gasoline rationing and people unable to get to his amusement park in Agawam, he had to figure some way to save his business. So he bought all my car carriers and by putting sides on them and putting in seats for seventy people, he converted them into half-assed sight-seeing busses. He charged for the ride, admission to the park, for a hot dog or two, and for rides and made a good thing on those busses. After the war, he sold them for junk." over in Cummington. He gave me the money I needed with no note or anything. He said, *If your word's no good, then "Did you ever play golf, Henry?" was one of my questions that set him off on another good story. "Yes, just once. It was a time out at the Hinsdale Club when I was trying to sell something or other and was having a party. I stepped up the tee and hit a ball .it may be going yet, never saw it again! I had a fine set of clubs Marie Stone had given me but I never got around to using them and she finally said she knew someone who would use them if I wasn't going to, so I gave them back to you're no good.'" her. 'Course driving the mail stage, travelling to Pitts morning and to Northampton each afternoon. I carried the mail to Hinsdale and Williamsburg, delivered the mail along Star Routes and did personal errands in Pittsfield and Northampton." "Only once did I ever borrow money, and that was the time I went to Frank Sears field every . GMC . I kidded her about being an "I started selling trucks fifty -two long time I was my own years ago and for a Indian giver." best customer. Even now, being laid through town. Henry recalled when the first one was put in back in 1910 and he tells of teamsters with pairs of horses and scoops digging the ditch for the pipe; and he remembers again in the We average about three trucks a week and my customers come to me. I give 'em a good deal, save them a few pay my dollars, taxes. Often I and make enough I sell to a truck with a -28- talked about the new water line �years of World "This placed. War is II when it was the third time," a thousand loads as you've done and never re- loses says Henry, "and now we'll be lucky if we can get some money from Mr. Carter for a sewer line." "Do you Over the years, Henry H. Snyder, Inc. had a part in hauling every kind of commodity in these parts. "For more than twentyfive years, I sent three milk trucks to to New York City. drivers took a load of beans to city, pocketed the money, and abandoned the truck in the woods near Westfield. .never saw him again but I was lucky to get the truck back. Then another of my drivers, Rob Bartlett, salt of the the hauled for my next ques- Without hesitation, Henry said there are so it was many strangers. Every . my same things again. I've really earned enough to pay my bills and made a good living. We have my wife worked a wonderful daughter as hard as I did, - harder even, and I could never have made it without her. Eva and I went to Florida three times, but we were always glad to get home. Yes, it's been a good life here in Worthington." enjoyed life; I've . me from to stores all over western Massachusetts and one day when he lost a case of corn, he insisted on paying for it. Nothing doing, I said. If a man hauls over groceries Worthington better now tion. exactly the . earth, like years ago?" was fifty . contracted to haul beans from the York Cummington call that house in this neighborhood has changed hands in recent years and folks come and go. So many good people lived in this town .don't ask me to name them for I would surely leave out some that have done a lot of good here." "What would I do different if I had my life to live over? Well, I think I would do never had to show my license," he proudly reports. It was during World War II that Henry my I than Now I've in com, "Back when I was a selectman and assessor, I knew everyone and called them by their first name. I got around to all the homes in the spring and was welcome. milk from the hilltown farms. I must have driven over two million miles myself and of that a case of better then. Springfield without ever missing a day, besides having other trucks picking up Farm "One more pretty good." Springfield ••• -29- . . �' Surprise by David Lynes It all started July 21, 1977, my mother to wake me when I asked up at nine o'clock but she said, "Oh, no you don't. You're getting up took off, much to our surprise, but we We left in a hurry because horses are very scared of bears. We went didn't stay. back later on foot to see if we could find ' weed the corn patch. "Humph!" I said. Then I went to bed. Sure as you're a foot tall she woke me up nice and early to weed the com. Then we early to went up to the Medical Center to see if there was a doctor to look at my ear. There wasn't, so we went to my grandfather's to ride the horses. After we had saddled and bridled them we went for a ride. First we went through a field of baby Christmas trees, then through one with larger trees where there was a robin's nest in a tree in the corner of the patch which my mother and I had been watching to see if the eggs were hatched. We looked and sure enough they had. By that time the deer flies had found us and the horses, so we trotted down a cleared stretch to try to away from the bugs. Then we decided to go down to the blueberry patch. When we were almost there we saw one Mama bear and three babies!! The babies went up a tree and the mother get any tracks. big as We did and the track was as my hand. I'm sure glad allow hunting! my grandfather doesn't �Unforgettable Person by Grace She is a very old person L. now and her its that, were I my would be improper to rush through such a meal in such surroundings. We ate, chatted, and watched the chipmunks and It mind would be heart and to try to forget her, it and ferns. her often. Memories of her are so deeply engraved in proper place. There were candles on the table a centerpiece of wild flowers no longer living. Her younger friends are busy or too far away to closest friends are visit Wignot impossible. listened to the birds in the fringe of the Sometimes in the whirl of a busy life in a busy town, I feel that I must shut out all the confusion and be alone with my thoughts. I must make sure that I am not allowing some the most worthwhile things nearby woods. be a chore. suggest that the one would happily return to the steps leading to the spacious porch From room with a fire- would go through bedrooms and into the kitchen where our lunch was nearly ready to be served. Every dish was prepared with care and little added there touches to make I it attractive. I I I am sure then discovered the joy of I was received one. How work about one's daily tasks and recall memories of such joy and inspiration given to me by a special friend in the little town of Ashfield. was given the task of setting the table. With a bit of supervision for I the reading Sunday was a very special day to Aunt Mary. As much of the preparation of meals and of the household tasks that could be done was accomplished on Saturday. Sunday was set aside as a special day for rest and enjoyment. We would have a delicious breakfast in the morning before going to church. The afternoon was always devoted to correspondence. That letter contact with warmth and love expressed in her letters gave joy, I am sure, to each person who animals and birds made it a place to enjoy. I loved to explore paths, seldom trod, that were hardly visible. After a quick into the big living read aloud to her. reading but I was made to feel that giving her a great deal of pleasure. little place. I who gained most from was me, pine trees, maiden-hair fern, little flowers appearing among the fallen pine needles, and my memories were our evenings together. We would draw the shades, light the lamp, and settle down to a cozy evening by the fireplace. Aunt Mary would arrange a chair with a table near by for me. On it would be a copy of the Readers' Digest. Then she would get her sewing basket and settle down in her favorite chair. When she started sewing, she would were not living, and perhaps I appreciated more than the average child, the attention of adults. Surely no invitation could ever have seemed more important than an invitation to spend a week-end with Aunt Mary. When I arrived, preparations were being made for our luncheon together on the porch of the cozy little cottage in a woodsy spot adjacent to Sanderson Academy. It was a secluded spot of natural beauty. The I me What impressed me most and remains vivid in girl woods sharing of work as well as a very pleasant experience. enjoying experiences which are a delight to recall. My parents trip into the A pleasure with such a person seemed to pass me by. It is then especially that thoughts of Aunt Mary come to me. They are vivid pictures of the time when I and the in lamp-lighted kitchen later didn't seem to in life to was a very young "Doing dishes" placed each piece of silver in -31 - pleasant it is to �Settlement of Chester by William S. Mills Excerpted from Chester Folks: the Founders of the Town, their Ancestors and Descendants. Mr. Mills loved the country, particularly the farm he had acnamed Overdale. He would tramp for hours over his acres, and in doing so became interested in the people whose land bordered his and in their ancestors, a fact which can well be understood since he had written at least one book on "Genealogy" which the Chester library carries. He would spend days searching records and his face would glow as he told of discovering dates and names which had eluded others. One would see Mr. Mills in Chester at holiday times and in the summer months, for h§ was a schoolman from Brooklyn, New York. He and Mrs. Mills often visited one of the Stevens homes (William or Willis F.) when he would sit by the hour on the piazza overquired and Coming here looking pure nature. first in 1902, he spent much of his available time around Chester for twelve to fifteen years. It was during this time that he compiled the book on Chester Clara Stevens Rose Folks found in our library. The first settlements in the town were between the East and Middle Branches of the Westfield River. the West and Among those between the Middle Branches of the Westfield River was Lot No. 44, the par- which this history relates.* After the land had been surveyed, the Proprietors proceeded to make terms of settlement, and to assign settlers by the plan of drawing lots. They drew their own lots and at the drawing on October 1 1763, John Murray drew Lot 44, among others, ticular tract to in all nineteen lots in the town. in that act ing confiscate , owning named were John Chandler, Abijah Willard, and John Murray. The town of Murrayfield held a meeting in November of 1778 and voted to petition the General Court "to have the Tory lands in this town sold at private sale". This was done, and as a result of a law passed by the Great and General Court of April 1779, and Massachusetts 30, amended in that year and in 1781, declarsons all property of Tories, three men, namely, John Kirkland, David Smead, and Benjamin Bonney, were The appointed a committee to at auction Edward Taylor of Westfield, reported that Lot 44 was 160 rods long the John Murray confiscated Lot No. 44. and 100 rods wide, and contained 102 acres and 80 rods. chusetts Surveyor, The (east to west) war with the mother country increased, and during the progress of that war, it became known that three of the five proprietors of Murrayfield were Tories. On 16, was held at Norwich, MassaMarch 7, 1781, and it was sold to sale the highest bidder, the Rev. Aaron Bas- After the settlement, the prospect of October sell minister of Murray- com, the first settled field, for 25 pounds. The State gave him the deed August 31, 1781. Jessie Wright and Hugh Quigley each bought half of this lot from Rev. Bascom 1784 and in 1786 respectively. 1778, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an act forbidding "who had gone over to the enemy", and among the per- There in on record the laying out of a road leading from the north line of Lot 44, the return of those persons -32- is �six rods east of Hugh walls Quigley's house, still standing in part, were built or north about 50 rods to the road that passed house of Quigley's brother-in-law, begun the next was "two rods west Hamilton's barn". This was in 1788 of the walls being as old as our United John Hamilton. It of it I think States of America. This date of the beginning of the road makes year, 1789, the first year of the Presidency of our Republic. the *It was on this lot No. 44, that Mr. Mills "Overdale Farm" was situated. highly probable that the stone *1t • -33- # �-34- �HUNTINGTON MALONE'S PACKAGE STORE Wines Beer • PUMPING SERVICE Snacks • TANK SEPTIC Serving All Western Mass. LIQUORS & Residential Industrial Woronoco Blandford Rd. Tel. 1-667-3343 9 A.M. - 10:30 P.M. Pond Brook Rd. CUMMINGTON ALADDin-S SUPPLY Main Street • Huntington, Mass. Huntington Road Cummington Chester, Massachusetts 634-8868 BREAKFASTS LUNCHES and DESSERTS DUIIUIIiy IVIatcrialS LUIIIUci OPEN DAILY Route 112 TRIPLE "S" Cummington, Mass. 01026 FARM FEED STORE (413)634-8827 We Sell Farm Bureau Feeds Dog Food Seeds HAPPY VALLEY FARM Rte. 9 Cummington Hay — Cat Food • • Bird Seed Bedding Fertilizer 634-5389 Open Mon.-Sat. 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Bcndi)^ Abrasives Division Chester and Westfield Tiie Facilities Bendix Corporation A major manufacturer serving the Automotive, Aerospace-Electronics, Industrial-Energy and Shelter Markets. -38- �Connpliments of CROSS PHARMACY James O'Grady, B.S., R.Ph. 1 West Main Street Joan and Floyd Huntington, Mass. 01050 Joan's Variety and Package Store Phone: 667-3055 Main Convalescent Aids Sales & Street, Chester Open 7 days Rentals Hudson Vitamins & Drug Prod. CLIFFORD GOSHEN GENERAL STORE PERO G. INSURANCE and AND Spirit HUNTINGTON HARDWARE STORE Rt. 9 Always The Best Price Quality Main And Goshen, Mass. 01032 Open 7 days Service 268-7268 Ashley Stoves Huntington Street Shop ROBERT F. LUCAS OLD & RARE BOOKS Main Street, P.O. Box 63 Blandford, Mass. 01008 Rte. 23 on fhe common Many subject areas in stock Specializing in early Americana Blandford, Mass. OPEN APPRAISALS ANTIQUES BOUGHT & SOLD ESTATE & TAG SALE SERVICES Thursday & Friday 1-9 Saturday 10-5 or by Appointment Tel. 848-2843 Buying & Selling 848-2061 -39- �About Our Contributors BARBARA BRAINERD BERTHA BRONSON, LOIS BROWN, native lives in Blandford and teaches at Westfield High School. a resident of Westfield, is ninety-eight years old. New Englander and long time resident of Worthington, is, among other things, a free-lance journalist. HELENA DURIS lives in Granville DORIS HAYDEN who MADELINE HUNTER ELLIE LAZARUS now and is curator of the Mabel Root Henry Museum. lives in Blandford, is a frequent contributor to is a teacher in the lives in STONE WALLS. Gateway Middle School. Hadley and has a position with the West Springfield School Department. DAVID LYNES, FRANK S. the younger, lives in NOONEY's VIRGINIA LADD OTIS WILLIAM ROSE ancestors lived in Chester. He writes for us and for the Daily once lived MICHAEL RUBIN Cummington. He in is in 7th grade. lives in Spokane, Washington. Hampshire Gazette. Chester. attended Gateway High School, now lives in Westfield. RICHARD WAITE grew up in Middlefield and still lives there. GRACE WIGNOT spent her childhood in Ashfield; -40- now lives year round on Cape Cod. �FRIENDS PATRON Marsh Mandana Marsh Mrs. Annemarie G. Schutz Frederick D. EDITORIAL BOARD Barbara Brainerd Lucy Conant Timothy Damon Connie Dorrington Bernard Drew Ida Joslyn As you may know, STONE WALLS are subscriptions, and welcome supportive is Lazarus Brook Lynes Louise Mason Brenda Paone Diana Schelle Waino Touminen, Jr. entirely self-supporting. Its only sources of income in lesser part, gifts from Ellie retail sales our readers: Friends and @ advertising. $10.00: Patrons We appreciatively @ $25.00. Please add 40 cents with a special request for any back issue to be mailed. �Westhompfon Memorial Library a properly built stone wall each rock sits squarely on the ones below it, and so long as gravity keeps pulling on every stone in it, that wall is going to stay put. ^7/1 — JOHN VIVIAN Building Stone Walls Garden Way Publishing Company Charlotte, Vermont with permission � Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Full issue of Stonewalls magazine Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Magazine Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2021-314 Title A name given to the resource Stonewalls magazine, Fall 1977 Subject The topic of the resource Other Description An account of the resource Full issue of Stonewalls magazine (Vol. 3, No. 3). 40 pp. with black and white photos and drawings. Ida Joslyn was on the Board. Includes article by Lois Ashe Brown on Henry Snyder. 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Electronic Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Massachusetts - Other Relation A related resource Paper copies of some Stonewalls magazines available at the WHS building Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. db created item - 2021-10-25 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/db9653c659001a529bf85ef29b40a006.pdf 31cedf01f08af7d65722e1302b216168 PDF Text Text Cee ee a od nee & Le se We x ce iad hae A Farm for sale situated in the North part of Worthington, containing between 30 X 6O Acres of Land, has on it an old House, a good Barn, an excellent Well of water, a large Orchard, with a plenty of Wood, and about sixty five Maples of the second growth. Said Farm is situated in a good neighborhood and good district for schooling. §@ For further particulars, inquire of Philo Sampson, near the | premises. IRA B. SAMPSON. Worthington, Dec. 1847. | | � Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Farm for Sale Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document - Paper, Single Sheet Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 25.4 x 30.5 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). summer 2005 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2021-12-30 Description An account of the resource Poster advertising Farm for Sale in North part of Worthington (Sampsonville, a.k.a. 'The Dingle') . Dated Dec. 1847. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 25.4 x 30.5 cm (10 x 12 in) Mounted on matte board Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 974.4/P/#210 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 30b Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Town Hall Title A name given to the resource Farm for Sale - Situated in the North part of Worthington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1847-12 Subject The topic of the resource Farms Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ira B. Sampson Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worthington - West Worthington Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. EL https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/a6cd52910e5ac5f605c9c51e4ca8df2e.tif 7936567e793a82eebb81b4f0af926a2b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2021-501 Title A name given to the resource Samuel Seely and Dogs Subject The topic of the resource People Description An account of the resource Samuel Seely sitting with two dogs outdoors on a rustic bench. William G. Rice's mother was a Seeley. Might this be a brother or cousin of hers? Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. 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AFT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1895-1905 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2021-10-12 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/e373b71f5ef97d7878e2f7f659b68e88.tif f7f973c5a5b536ef056c8b012ab22081 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2021-502 Title A name given to the resource Mrs. Sophia Stevens with Book Subject The topic of the resource People Description An account of the resource Mrs. Sophia P. Stone Stevens (1816-1910) sitting in a rocking chair with a book. She was the wife of Aaron Stevens and the mother of Deacon Eugene Stevens and Cullen Stevens. Buried in North Cemetery. The handwriting (with the date 1901) on the paper envelope appears to be that of Harriet L. P. Rice. She may have been the photographer. There are scans of paper photographs of Mrs. Stevens taken on the same day archived with the identifier Ph101al. Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Glass Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. located in box labeled "Rice" Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 12.7 x 17.8 cm (5 x 7 in) Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2025-129 Title A name given to the resource Articles about new info from Worthington resident about the Lincoln assassination Subject The topic of the resource Historic Event Description An account of the resource Two articles about discovery by Joseph Lynch of Worthington, of 18 pages from the diary of John Wilkes Book that were said to have been removed. The discovery was printed by Jack Anderson. The items were not found in Worthington, but were in a previously unopened box held by the heirs of Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War. Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource scans of two newspaper articles Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jack Anderson and Frederick Cusick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977-08-04 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Daily Hampshire Gazette Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2025-10-03 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. digital archive Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2025-088 Title A name given to the resource Memorabilia related to strained glass artists Jack Trompeter, Claire von Peski, and their business, "Leo Glass" Subject The topic of the resource Businesses and Stores Description An account of the resource Several items related to Jack Trompeter including a newspaper article, and advertising brochure and business card for Leo Glass. Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource various size documents and scans Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jack Trompetter Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Jack Trompetter Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. 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Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Still Image - Black and White Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 13.3 x 9.5 cm (5.2 x 3.8 in) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worthington - Worthington Corners Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2024-07-21 Description An account of the resource Modern black and white copies of James Adams photgraphs showing guest bedrooms and common spaces including fireplace at the Worthington Inn. Date unknown. Probably around 1910. 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Ralph Healy Title A name given to the resource Worthington Inn guest rooms and fireplace Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Adams Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1910 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available James Adams Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. jd https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/01b6c6f740578fd92290b00335de156a.pdf f01ab3a1a85f00d59617bb7a8b0c4140 PDF Text Text � Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Clipping Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. scan of original image Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2024-039 Title A name given to the resource 1791 ad for horse doctor/farrier Subject The topic of the resource Farms Description An account of the resource Advertisement posted by a horse doctor/farrier from Great Britain promising treatments for a wide range of horse illnesses. Mentions stops in both Worthington and Northampton. Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scan of newspaper article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Bartley Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1791-11-02 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hampshire Gazette Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2024-03-22 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Digital archive Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Electronic Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Massachusetts - Other Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. db 2024-03-22 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/ac5907f981481fbac1c4fa608a66b8ed.tif bba94a6e4dbc7bab50361b4ad48d9e53 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/87775dba1b462a277eb72c159ca7c1a9.tif da2e0085ab44082759f23f7b8b9588cb https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/909a833faafb50d7f4a2bea0d853ab3f.tif 8d1cb46a7c2c95c090c209db6c8d6dac https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/5c602e68545ff95966255933980aa709.tif 10ca9492f5156826893dd85df274852b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2006a-018 Description An account of the resource From James C. Rice, Camp Butterfield, Halls Hills, VA. Four pages handwritten, includes paper with actual countersign. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived from Town Hall Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2005-07-15 Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 2007-03-24 Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Box 30c Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 19 x 24.1 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in) Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. bfs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-01-12 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hampshire Gazette Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2012-12-05 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Title A name given to the resource Letter from James Clay Rice to nephew, William Subject The topic of the resource People Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Clay Rice Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 30c Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worthington - Worthington Corners https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/45d485ec2185f1eca0ab0f26cdf65d75.tif f3e105dd3b00808a5c548541d5dd1a5b https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/8ca055b2981a0ee069dab2b8d6dd44cb.tif 47fa34ad94118a4107420b516d2a4a96 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/9dcbf25737b21b49481df67410bba675.pdf c5b06bf08f0157b8948589a475939597 PDF Text Text Garibaldi Guard Near Fairfax, Va. July 17th 10 o’clock We have marched ten miles today and though I am very tired, I have walked a mile further to a Virginia farm house, to write. I could get no water today to drink, and now a good colored Aunty is getting me a nice supper with milk and coffee. Will it not taste good!!! My trunk and all my things are in my hut in Alexandria. I sleep to night with the stars for my cover lid. I have my cloak and blanket. We were ordered to take nothing more. I advance tomorrow at day light in peace and happiness. 10 miles from Manassas July 20th, 1861 We expect a general battle to day and a severe one. If I fall, I die for my country. J. C. R. Page 2: Orange, New Jersey July 20, 1861 Dear Mrs. Rice, Though the news from the seat of war is very sad, and our future hopes for our country seem darkened, still personally we have to be thankful that the Garibaldi Brigade were not in the contest, but a reserve corps, at Centerville, and they probably retreated with the army to the entrenchments near Washington. Respectfully yours, J. Thorpe � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Papers, publications, artifacts from Frederick Sargeant Huntington Library Rice (collection) Room related to Katherine McDowell Rice (1859-1945) and items related to other members of the Rice family including William Gorham Rice, James Clay Rice, Susan Tracy Rice and others Title A name given to the resource Rice family materials Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. letter from James Clay Rice Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document - Electronic Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2024-031 Title A name given to the resource Letter from James Clay Rice to mother, July 1861 Subject The topic of the resource Letters, correspondence Description An account of the resource Letter written by James Clay Rice to his mother [Wealthea Cotrell Rice (1784-1870), on the eve of the first battle of Bull Run. Includes as well letter from either a colleague or a commanding officer stating that the Garibaldi group had not been engaged in the battle directly. Garibaldi Guard Near Fairfax, Va. July 17th 10 o’clock We have marched ten miles today and though I am very tired, I have walked a mile further to a Virginia farm house, to write. I could get no water today to drink, and now a good colored Aunty is getting me a nice supper with milk and coffee. Will it not taste good!!! My trunk and all my things are in my hut in Alexandria. I sleep to night with the stars for my cover lid. I have my cloak and blanket. We were ordered to take nothing more. I advance tomorrow at day light in peace and happiness. 10 miles from Manassas July 20th, 1861 We expect a general battle to day and a severe one. If I fall, I die for my country. J. C. R. Page 2: Orange, New Jersey July 20, 1861 Dear Mrs. Rice, Though the news from the seat of war is very sad, and our future hopes for our country seem darkened, still personally we have to be thankful that the Garibaldi Brigade were not in the contest, but a reserve corps, at Centerville, and they probably retreated with the army to the entrenchments near Washington. Respectfully yours, J. Thorpe Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource scan of digitized letter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Clay Rice Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-07-17 and 1861-07-20 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available eBay.com Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2024-03-05 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Digital archive Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Electronic Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant US - Other Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. 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Gleanings from an Old Worthington Ledger Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document - Multiple Sheets Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 20.3 x 25.4 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2005a-170 Description An account of the resource Seven page mimeographed copy of paper "Gleanings from An Old Worthington Ledger" by James Ramage of Hartford, Ct. Ledger owned by John Watts from 1808. Abstract A summary of the resource. Recollection - "Gleanings from An Old Worthington Ledger" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived unknown Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 2007-03-25 Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Box 30b Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in) Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. swu Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1808 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Worthington Historical Society Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2012-10-05 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Title A name given to the resource Gleanings from an Old Worthington Ledger Subject The topic of the resource Businesses and Stores Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Ramage Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 30b https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/ec5c6147337ad2abc6f566033c2f4a06.tif b09e2ae86470a4a4b21279c3305e7e95 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/7e7e3fd82614b62bef99380837616e00.tif cea32b92a218da3b492f0a40b848e487 Physical Object Physical objects other than books, documents, photographs &c. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-25 Description An account of the resource Letter on Civill War stationery which shows canon going off with 34-star American flag in background. From James Thayer to his wife, Lydia. 'Dear Wife .......' Includes envelope. Identify Civil War. Includes photocopy of letter and transcription by Elizabeth Payne. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 973.7/T/#448 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 30c Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Charles Thayer of S. Worthington Estate Title A name given to the resource James Thayer to wife nov. 1861 on Civil War Stationery Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-11-17 Subject The topic of the resource Letters, correspondence Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Thayer Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available James Thayer Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worthington - other unspecified Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. 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Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-25 Description An account of the resource Dear Kind and Affectionate Wife.....' Tells his wife he willl not re-enlist, does not have a sweetheart. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 973.7/T/#449 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 30c Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Charles Thayer of S. Worthington Estate Title A name given to the resource James F. Thayer to wife concerning Re-enlistment - Civil War. March 1864 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-03-28 Subject The topic of the resource Letters, correspondence Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Thayer Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available James Thayer Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worthington - other unspecified Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. jd https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/4e7051e0d1e0984f93df9ad5f763404d.tif 1b79f4f2744ed68ef76ce41eb94a0b78 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/5144d551a0fb7920013a5064b17d23b2.jpg 924a51c3f03aab0c12ba0484f801943f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2025-104 Title A name given to the resource Joan Donovan and Judy Spiess, Church Fair, 1979 Subject The topic of the resource Churches Description An account of the resource Newspaper photograph and accompanying newspaper article by Janet Dimock about the fresh food booth run by Joan Donovan and Judy Spiess during the 1979 Congregational Church fair. Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 9" x 11" glossy photograph plus scan of newspaper article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Janet Dimmock Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979_07_19 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hampshire Gazette Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2025-09-09 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 36c and digital archive Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worthington - Worthington Center Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. jd/db https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/f0b440292303767996f1a2b95ef54b5d.pdf f62450b03509ec82b46bf3dd700a4cff PDF Text Text Ne ee Ee aets Town Meeting allo a building maintenance, highway repair funds By JANET DIMOCK WORTHINGTON — Despite icy roads, more than 20 Worthington residents turned out for last night’s special Town Meeting. A total of $12,869.24 in antirecession (Title II) funding was appropriated. The sum of $9,869.24 was approved for maintenance of town buildings and $3,000 for maintenance of town roads. Anti-recession funds must be used to continue ongo- ing projects and cannot be used to establish new projects or jobs. Selectman John Ryder said $7,000 has been allotted for Town Hall upkeep. Ryder hopes that town funds will not need to be appropriated for this purpose at the annual Town Meeting. Upkeep will probably include heating costs and repairs, some of which may be to the roof, it was Stated. The funding for the highway account will be used to replace $3,000 unexpectedly spent to repair flood damage earlier this year. Reimbursement from the state for the money spent on the flood damage is not expected until sometime next year. The money will be placed in the town’s general account. The vote on both articles was unanimous. Julia Sharron announced that a dental health clinic for persons in the over age 55 will be held n Town Hall Friday afternoo c from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The clini John will be conducted by Dr. e nurs each outr and Modestow Madeline Provost of the Worthington Health Center. Adult movie tonight WORTHINGTON — The for first in a series of movies this wn sho be will ts adul evening at 7:30 in the library. the These movies are free to public. Tonight’s movie 1s “Pride and Prejudice.” � Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Town Meeting allots building maintenance, highway repair funds. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2020-001 Title A name given to the resource Worthington Special Town Meeting 1977-12-07 Subject The topic of the resource Town Government Description An account of the resource Allotment of funds for building and highway maintenance at a Special Town Meeting Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 9.9 x 14.6 cm Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Janet Dimock Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977-12-07 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hampshire Gazette Newspaper Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020-11-02 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. 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