A glimpse into life in the past for the youngsters
June 4 was an exciting and busy day in the town of Andover as the young and the old came together for a visit at the Potter Place Railroad Station. The young were the fourth graders from the towns of Webster, Salisbury, and Andover. The old were the various buildings and artifacts which comprise the […]
Open house on Sunday, July 13
The Tucker Mountain School House will be open on Sunday, July 13, from 1 to 3 PM. There is no charge. Pat Baker’s homemade cookies are provided and make the two-mile trip up Tucker Mountain Road worth it. The 1837 one-room school house was built on land originally settled by William Tucker. William was born in […]
June marriages and a new principal
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. July 2 United in marriage on June 27 were Miss Norma Jean Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown of West Franklin, and Roger Guy Laro, son of Mr and […]
New calendar for 2015 on sale at the Fourth
The fifth in a series of Andover Historical Society calendars, “East Andover Remembered”, will be for sale on the Village Green on the Fourth of July. This calendar has been made possible by the generosity of businesses and individuals who sponsored a month to defray printing costs. Locations and people in East Andover are featured, […]
Presentation on Friday, June 27
The New Hampshire Telephone Museum (NHTM) kicked off its 2014 “4th Phridays at the Phone Museum” series in May with a presentation sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Dr. Herman Tavani presented Privacy in Cyberspace, a thought-provoking look at the issue of maintaining our privacy while reaping the benefits of using the Internet. His presentation […]
Franklin Historical Society, at the Webster/Tay House
On Thursday night, June 5, at 7 PM at the Webster/Tay House (Webster Place, off Route 3; directions at FranklinNHHistoricalSociety.org), the Franklin Historical Society proudly presents, through the graces of a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council, speaker Maggie Stier and her topic The Old Man of the Mountain: Substance and Symbol, recalling the […]
Before he passed away, Ev Woodman allowed us to run this moving remembrance in the Beacon. It seems fitting to add it to the Beacon’s Web site on this, the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Our top secret Navy orders at US Naval Advanced Amphibious Base 11 in South England took us on May 20 to […]
Gardens destroyed by a hard frost
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. June 2, 1964 Private David Newton, son of Mrs. Mildred Newton, arrived home the first of the week from Germany. David has been in the Army for three years and has […]
Newly discovered Andover School Registers on display
Sunday, June 8, from 1 to 3 PM marks the first Open House of the year at the Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse. The one-room schoolhouse, built in 1837, will be open the second Sunday of each month through October Among the artifacts on exhibit this month will be five of the ten Andover School Registers (dated […]
Donated to Wilmot Historical Society
Margaret Campbell of Wilmot recently donated five 19th-century diaries written by Isaac B. Youngman to the Wilmot Historical Society (WHS). Youngman, a life-long Wilmot resident who lived from 1811 to 1892, lived on Teel Hill in North Wilmot and later moved to Wilmot Center. He was a farmer and served the town of Wilmot as a […]