Why it was Our Battle and how we celebrate same
A Bennington village reminiscence explains why the Battle of Bennington is called Walloomsac by critics, detailing the 1777 victory and its enduring annual celebration. It recalls tavern feasts, barn burnings turned tradition, and a later centennial shaft memorial, with village pride across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
Battle of Bennington
Council of Safety
Green Mountain Boys
Stark
Athens
Marathon
Alexander
Salamis
Fort Ticonderoga
Walloomsac
Locke
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Baum
Massachusetts
State
Union
United States
West Point
New England
Traveling home on wheels and a driving under influence case
A Seattle man, Eugene Varray, 36, is picked up and convicted for driving while intoxicated by Motor Vehicle Inspector Bryce J. Kinney. His 25 foot long luxury trailer house car includes reclining chairs, stove and bureau for life on the road. Other items note milk price talk in New York, a theater role casting in East Arlington, a square dance in Williamstown, a library resignation, pillow radios at Putnam Memorial hospital, and various regional notices and historical notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Varray
Seattle
Wash
Bryce J. Kinney
Far Northwest
New York State Milk Advisory Board
Irene Anderson
Clyde Dunlap
Joseph
East Arlington
Egypt
Lawrence V. Loy
Mississippi
Williamstown
Language and the evolving edge of words
Author Anthony Burgess argues that censorship shifts rather than removes the offense of terms. He cites nigger, kike, and micks as examples and urges society to cleanse obscenity from minds, not outlaw terms, while noting legal and social tensions around gender, formality, and respect in language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben
Conrad
Narcissus
Firbank
Lenny Bruce
Limey
Hunkies
Micks
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Anthony Haswell
England
Vermont Gazette
Bennington Evening Banner
Reformer
Haswell
Howe
Vermont
Drysdale’s
Putnam House
Burt
Bennington Museum
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Abraham Moskovitz
Hugh Nash
Harry Kaufmann
Rudy Vallee
Golden Fox
Albany
Island Pond
California
Richard Snelling
Pownal
Rutland
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Chicago
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Quebec
Searcy
Ark
Wall Street Journal
Anthony Burgess
New York
Naples
Britain
Ridley
Shakespeare
Theodore G. Chingos
Ferns
Main Street
CS Fisimalis
Main St
Nichols
Wali
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