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Recent Additions to the Vermont Historical Society Library
BOOKS Allen, Will, Nancy Bell, et al., Where Our Four Towns Meet: The Pros- per Valley of Barnard, Bridgewater, Pomfret, and Woodstock: A “Place Too Important to Be Left to Chance.” Woodstock, Vt.: The Conservation Fund and Marsh–Billings–Rockefeller National Historic Park, 2007. 40p. Bellamy, John Stark, II, Vintage Vermont Villainies: True Tales of Mur- der and Mystery from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman Press, 2007. 226p. List: $13.95 (paper). * Bisbee, Richard M., History of the Town of Waitsfield, Vermont: 1789– 2000. Barre, Vt.: L. Brown and Sons, 2007. 524p. List: $50.00. Bishop, Anne Warner, Silver: The Life and Art of Sylvia Beckman Warner. Sausalito, Calif.: The author, 2007. 189p. List: Unknown (paper). Biography of former Vermont State Representative Sylvia Wright of Rupert.
...... * Indicates books available through the Vermont Historical Society Museum Store. Vermont History Vol. 75, No. 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 85–89. © 2008 by the Vermont Historical Society. ISSN: 0042-4161, on-line ISSN: 1544-3043
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Book, J. David, “It Is Sweet and Honorable to Die for the Fatherland”: Civil War Soldiers from Cabot, Vermont. Newport, Vt.: Vermont Civil War Enterprises, 2007. 170p. Source: The publisher, 93 Leo Lane, Newport, VT 05855. List: $40.00 (paper). Brooks, Ralph Edison, Eben and Catherine Joy at the Dog Team Tavern. Foxboro, Mass.: The author, 2007. 189p. Source: The author, 214B Main Street, Foxboro, MA 02035-1321. List: Unknown (paper). Brown, Robert Goodell, Reconstruction of the Covered Bridge in Union Village. Thetford Center, Vt.: The author, 2002. 16p. Source: Thet- ford Historical Society, P.O. Box 33, Thetford, VT 05074. List: $8.00 (paper). Brown, Robert Goodell, Thetford Covered Bridges, Summer 2007. Thetford Center, Vt.: The author, 2007. 56p. Source: Thetford Historical Society, P.O. Box 33, Thetford, VT 05074. List: $8.00 (paper). Carlson, Alof, Boyhood Memories—West Rutland’s Business District. West Rutland, Vt.: West Rutland Historical Society, 2006. 21p. Source: The publisher, P.O. Box 385, West Rutland, VT 05777. List: Unknown. Chalmer, Judith, Elder Stories: A Celebration of Life in Vermont. Cabot, Vt.: Cabot Creamery, 2007. 63p. Oral histories recorded at the Out & About Day Center, Morrisville. Newspaper tabloid. Clifford, Cameron, Failure, Filth, and Fame: Joe Ranger and the Creation of a Vermont Character. West Hartford, Vt.: Clifford Archive, 2007. 234p. Source: The author, P.O. Box 114, West Hartford, VT 05084-0114. List: $20.00 (paper). * Clifford, Deborah Pickman and Nicholas R. Clifford, “The Troubled Roar of the Waters”: Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927–1931. Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2007. 229p. List: $29.95. Collins, Anne, Bellows Falls, Saxtons River & Westminster: A History of Vermont’s Most Beloved River Communities. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2007. 128p. List: $21.99 (paper). Davison, Donald J., The Rebels Are Coming!: How Canada Tried to Set- tle the Northern Most Battle of the Civil War . . . and Got Everyone Mad at Them. The Author, 2005. 272p. Delaney, Steve, Vermont Seasonings: Reflections on the Rhythms of a Vermont Year. Concord, N.H.: Plaidswede Publishing, 2007. 19p. List: $18.95 (paper). Green Mountain Club, 360 Degrees: A Guide to Vermont’s Fire and Ob- servation Towers. Waterbury Center, Vt.: Green Mountain Club, 2005. 48p. List: $7.95 (paper).
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* Jones, Ronald D., John and Ethan: A Revolutionary Friendship. Salis- bury, Conn.: Salisbury Association, 2007. 56p. List: $10.00 (paper). Story of John Hazeltine and Ethan Allen in Salisbury, Connecti- cut, and Vermont. Layn, Helen B., Patrick A. Polzella, and Candace L. Polzella, Monkton: The Way It Was. Burlington, Vt.: Queen City Printers, 2007. 160p. Source: Helen Layn, 4149 Mountain Road, Bristol, VT 05443. List: $25.00 (paper). Lincoln Historical Society, Lincoln, Vermont, History, 1780–2007. Lin- coln, Vt.: Lincoln Historical Society, 2007. Various paging. Source: The publisher, 88 Quaker St., Lincoln, VT 05443. List: Unknown (paper). Georgia Historical Society, Memories of Georgia. Newport, Vt.: Civil War Enterprises, 2005. Source: The author, P.O. Box 2072, Georgia, VT 05468. List: $15.00 each. Series of books containing historical vignettes from Georgia, Vt. Mayo, Bernier L., In My Opinion . . . : Musings of a Vermont Conserva- tive. Quechee, Vt.: Vermont Heritage Press, 2006. 200p. * Pelletier, Joyce, A Vermont Woman’s Life in 1883. Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, 2007. 190p. List: $16.99 (paper). Diary of Ada- line Turner Crandall of Berlin, Vt., in 1883. Sarcka, Wayne A., with Elizabeth Man Sarcka, Giving a Lift in Time: A Finnish Immigrant’s Story. Montpelier, Vt.: Anne Sarcka, 2007. 195p. Source: The publisher, 8 Park Ave., Montpelier, VT 05602. List: $18.00 (paper). Autobiography of founder of Spring Lake Ranch in Shrewsbury, Vt. Stansfield, Charles A., Jr., Haunted Vermont: Ghosts and Strange Phe- nomena of the Green Mountain State. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stack- pole Books, 2007. 115p. List: $9.95 (paper). Topsham History Committee, History of Topsham, Vermont: Genealogy and Supplement. Topsham, Vt.: Topsham History Committee, 2007. 360p. Source: Topsham Town Office, P.O. Box 69, Topsham, VT 05076. List: $45.00. Wheatley, Harriet, et al., Richmond, Vermont: A History of More than 200 Years. Richmond, Vt.: Richmond Historical Society, 2007. 506p. Source: Richmond Historical Society, P.O. Box 453, Rich- mond, VT 05477. List: $25.00. Whitney, Tom, ed., The Book of Years: Vermonters Tell Stories from Their Lives Fifty Years after High School: Burlington High School Class of 1957. Hilo, Hawaii: Dolphin Press, 2007. 376p. List: $26.99.
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SCHOOL PROJECTS Burke Town School third and fourth grade, Snapshot: The People of Our Town, 2007. Burke, Vt.: Burke Town School, 2007. Unpaged. List: Unknown. North Bennington Graded School sixth grade students, Jill A. Fortney, teacher, and Kevin Bubriski, photographer, Photographs and Memories: A Pictorial and Narrative Recollection of and by North Bennington’s Elders at the Turn of the Century. North Bennington, Vt.: North Bennington Graded School, 2000. 26p. List: Unknown. Union Elementary School (Montpelier, Vermont) fourth grade class, Colin McCaffrey, and Julie Carter, The River Gives to Me: Ver- mont History through Song and Story. Jamaica Plain, Mass.: Over- night Color and Graphics, 2006. 28p. List: Unknown. West Rutland Bicentennial Committee and Fred Remington, West Rut- land Oral History Project. West Rutland, Vt.: Judith B. Crowley, 2007. 123p. Source: The publisher, P.O. Box 432, West Rutland, VT 05777. List: Unknown (paper). Interviews conducted by the West Rutland High School classes of 1978 and 1979.
GENEALOGY Clifford, Mary and Martha T. Clifford, Mason Hill Cemetery in Starks- boro, Vermont. Essex Junction, Vt.: The authors, 2006. 15 leaves. The Stones in the East Shoreham Cemetery on the Richville Road in Shoreham or on the Shoreham-Whiting Road in Whiting. Whiting, Vt.: East Shoreham Cemetery Association, 2002. 19p. Vermont French–Canadian Genealogical Society, comp., Baptism and Burial Repertoire, Holy Family Catholic Church, Essex Jct., Ver- mont, 1893–1997. Burlington, Vt.: Vermont French–Canadian Ge- nealogical Society, 2006. 419p. Source: The publisher, P.O. Box 65128, Burlington, VT 05606-5128. List: $55.00. _____, Baptism & Marriage Repertoire, St. Stephen Catholic Church, Winooski, Vermont: Including St. Edmund Mission and Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester, Vermont. Burlington, Vt.: Vermont French– Canadian Genealogical Society, 2007. Unpaged. Source: The pub- lisher, P.O. Box 65128, Burlington, VT 05606-5128. List: $60.00. _____, Richmond Baptism Repertoire, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Richmond, Vermont 1857–1931. Burlington, Vt.: Vermont French– Canadian Genealogical Society, 2007. 199p. Source: The pub- lisher, P.O. Box 65128, Burlington, VT 05606-5128. List: $35.00 (spiral).
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_____, St. Francis Xavier Baptism Repertoire, St. Francis Xavier Catho- lic Church, Winooski, Vermont, 1868–1930. Burlington, Vt.: Ver- mont French–Canadian Genealogical Society, 2006. 490p. Source: The publisher, P.O. Box 65128, Burlington, VT 05606-5128. List: $60.00.