Starting Saturday, July 1
The Wilmot Historical Society’s History Room will be open to visitors every Saturday morning in July and August, plus Saturday, September 2 at the fabulous Wilmot Farmers’ Market this summer. The Curiosity Shop will be selling curiosities and collectibles in its usual spot from 9 AM until noon on the first Saturday of the month […]
There was a full house at the East Andover Grange Hall on June 15 for Kevin Gardner’s Humanities to Go program on Discovering New England Stone Walls. The evening was sponsored by the Andover Historical Society with a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities. Kevin explained how and why New England came to acquire its […]
50 YEARS AGO, IN ANDOVER JULY 1967 MCMLXVll ‘‘‘‘ Good old news from Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Cilleyville, and Potter Place’’’’ Transcribed by: Virginia S. Edwards ‘‘‘ Gossip columns from the Franklin Journal Transcripts ‘‘‘ ANDOVER: JULY 6, 1967 There was no Andover section for news in the Journal Transcripts A BIG THANK YOU […]
See it at the AHS Museum
A twelve stop organ, built about 1895 by the Chicago Cottage Organ Company, recently returned to its roots in Andover after a 50 year stay in Franklin. OWNERS OF THE ORGAN THROUGH THE YEARS Anna Maria Bean Severance, who was born in Wilmot in 1860, was believed to have been the original owner of the […]
As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day and to enjoy our town’s seventy-fifth consecutive Fourth of July Parade, it’s time to take stock of this local tradition. How did Andover celebrate this holiday in its early years? Although Andover had its raw beginnings before the country did, there were probably no Fourth of July celebrations […]
Presenting Over There, Over Here
In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American Veteran of World War I. Then he found another, and another. Eventually, he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. A decade long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and […]
The historic one-room school house will be open to the public on Sunday, June 11, from 1 to 3 PM. Visitors will enjoy seeing the original record book that began in 1836 and kept through 1883. I have been transcribing the record book and plan to have copies available. Included in the record book is […]
In the early 1800s, stagecoach service to and from Boston had come to Andover, but the journey was still a significant undertaking. The stage from Boston to Concord took eleven hours. Travelers could then continue on the stage to Hanover, New Hampshire (another day’s travel) and then to Burlington, Vermont (yet another day). So anyone […]
Good old news from Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Cilleyville, and Potter Place gossip columns from the Franklin Journal Transcripts Transcribed by Virginia S. Edwards May 4, 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson is President; Number one song, The Happening, by the Supremes; Best Book, The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder; Best Movie, For […]
A continuation from last month’s article
Introduction: In my previous article, Nannie Robie, my grandmother, was writing to her brother Robert, who was working as a hired hand at a farm in Amherst, New Hampshire. It was early spring, and Nannie was passing along family and hometown news. In this article, it is summer, and Robert is working in Lakeport, […]