The photo with this article is the Donnis house, and dates to about 1910. This is the red brick house near the entrance of Chester Elementary School. The team of horses is drawing a load of short logs, probably delivering … Continued
Saturday, Nov. 11, I left my place and noticed a tractor-trailer with open sides and top. It was loaded with bound Christmas trees. It got me to thinking. In high school I worked summers for Albert and Carne DeCell in … Continued
I think it was back in May when I wrote an article about a book I wanted to publish this March. It would be a book of other peoples’ stories. I asked readers to write a couple stories for this … Continued
Deer hunting today compared to deer hunting 50 years ago has changed. To begin with, 50 years ago you could only shoot one deer each calendar year. If you got a deer in October bow season, you couldn’t shoot a … Continued
Rifle season is right around the corner. I got to thinking about past deer seasons. My mother June loved venison, and we usually had it. My father Arnold, my brother Brian, and I hunted together through most of the 1960s. … Continued
Here’s a history I’ll just touch on. I found some history in, “The Coming of the Train,” by Brian A. Donelson, and the Green Mountain Long Trail Club. It was about 1975, I met an old man who had lived … Continued
I write my articles on weekends. This past weekend I was distracted by the weather. Sunday morning I had a brain cramp and couldn’t think of anything to write about. This is what I came up with. If you asked … Continued
Here is some interesting Weston history. A few years ago, Ted Spaulding and his brother John “Gramp” Leon donated to the Chester Historical Society countless items that had descended in the Spaulding and Marshall families. From Gramp came 125 diaries. … Continued
I’ve been dealing in antiques for over 50 years. I wanted to record how the business has changed in that time. The 1970s In the early to mid-1970s, antiques were plentiful. It wasn’t uncommon in those days, when an … Continued
In the past I have written about mourning covers. They are a black-bordered envelope announcing someone close had died. Below are two mourning notecards I found interesting. Ira Colby was an attorney in Claremont. Dec. 29, 1926 postmark … Continued