Big water ski show held in tough conditions at Highland Lake
Here’s some old news from the Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Potter Place, and Cilleyville “gossip” columns of the Franklin Journal Transcript, selected by Heather Makechnie. Andover Fire Chief Honored by Fireman – A testimonial dinner was given by the Andover Citizen Fire Company and Auxiliary for Victor E Phelps of Andover, Wednesday, August 25, […]
Please help get it back to the schoolhouse
The iron hitching ring attached to the corner of the Tucker Mountain School House has been taken! This ring was donated by Ken Reid in 2010 for the re-enactment video. It is a close match to the one in the 1887 photo. Back in the days when the school was in session, the hitching ring […]
Mellie Flanders and the Ladies Aid
"The Outlook, East Andover, N. H."
Sunday, August 9, from 1 to 3 PM
The Andover Historical Society’s Tucker Mountain School House will be open on Sunday, August 9, from 1 to 3 PM. Activities will include a scavenger hunt for historical items around the 1837 school house like a mortise and tendon joint, a wooden wall peg, something that shows evidence of a porcupine, something that shows evidence […]
Jo Crisp starts a nursery school
Here’s some old news from the Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Potter Place, and Cilleyville “gossip” columns of the Franklin Journal Transcript, selected by Heather Makechnie. August 5, 1965 Microwave Relay Tower Being Built Here: Construction of a microwave relay tower, part of the network that will join Ashburnham, Massachusetts, and Cornish, Maine, is underway […]
Expanding its Web site, too
The Wilmot Historical Society (WHS) has been busy lately. WHS is conducting oral history sessions, planning to add more archival information to its expanded Web site at WilmotHistoricalSociety.org, and opening its History Room (a collection featuring artifacts related to the town and its residents) and its Curiosity Shop (which sells must-have collectibles and curiosities) on […]
Larry Sullivan shares history, legends, and folktales
Warner’s Tory Hill Authors Series continues its sixth season with Warner historian and author Larry Sullivan reading from his latest work, Mount Kearsarge: History, Stories, Legends and Folktales on Saturday, July 11, at the Warner Town Hall. After you read this book, you will never see Mount Kearsarge in the same old way. You will […]
Pause for a photo on Poplar Street
Come squeeze lemons on July 12
The Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse will be open on Sunday, July 12, from 1 to 3 PM. Come squeeze your own lemons and make real lemonade! If you would like to tour the William Tucker cellar hole, Donna Baker-Hartwell would be happy to show you. William Tucker donated the land for the building of the school in 1836. […]