Monhegan Island and Maine Plantations in Local History
A Maine writer explains why Monhegan is not a southern plantation but a historic Maine term. He traces plantation to early Popham settlers called planters, notes Monhegan as a key landing in exploration, and clarifies Maine usage where plantation equals a settlement or limited township rather than a farm.
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Connecticut
Maine
Monhegan Island
Monhegan
South
Marie George Washington
Marie
Jefferson
New England
Popham
Sir Ferdinand Gorges
Popham Beach
England
France
New France
Acadia
Europe
America
Portland
Letters To The Banner On A Student Magazine Controversy
A Bennington student writes about rapid upheavals in education and the recent Ms controversy outcome. The writer condemns decisions restricting access to reading material and questions where obscenity criteria begin across biology anthropology politics religion philosophy and science. The letter also asks what might stop individuals from dictating readers' limits.
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Bennington
Whitewash or brainwash in school values policy
A reader questions the removal of library materials as censoring values and warns against removing "undesirable" segments. The piece argues that schooling mirrors community reality and criticizes efforts to suppress or distort knowledge to fit a narrow view. Blackberry Lane.
A Bennington Tribute to Lindbergh and Town Talk
The Banner Aug 27 tribute to Charles Lindbergh omitted details of a brief post Paris visit. Two planes traced the monument route, the Lindbergh monoplane dipping close to the north side before vanishing west. Also notes cordial meeting with Loo Dana on vacation return.
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Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Bennington
Lindbergh
Loo Dana
Let's Decriminalize Prostitution and Its Rationale
A call for decriminalizing prostitution argues privacy and liberty, citing Brandeis on the right to be let alone and constitutional protection. It contends anti prostitution laws are discriminatory, costly, ineffective, and provoke police misconduct, proposing regulation instead of criminalization.
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Louis Brandeis
New York City
Rutland court petitions seek land for government forest purchase
District Attorney Joseph A. McNamara files petitions in United States District Court Vermont to resolve boundary disputes before acquiring about 12 110 acres of land across Rutland Bennington Windham and Windsor counties. The parcels include portions of Peru Winhall Weston Landgrove Londonderry and Mt Tabor within the National Forest and adjacent boundaries.
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Rutland
United States District Court of
Vermont
Joseph A. McNamera
Bennington
Windham
Windsor
National Forest
Peru
Winhall
Weston
Landgrove
Londonderry
Mt. Tabor
Food for pets sparks moral debate at veterinary meeting
Lloyd Co Faulkner of Colorado State University urged the American Veterinary Medical Association in Denver to consider distributing the earth's food amid widespread malnutrition. Edward Cortese of Levitt and Sons comments on modern living spaces. A Catholic priest argues babies have no place in church.
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Lloyd Co. Faulkner
Colorado State University
American Veterinary Medical Association
Denver
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John Gould
Christian Science Monitor
Friendship, Maine
Wall Street
Blackberry Lane
McKinley Street
Walker
Green Mountains
St. Joseph College
Business Administration
Liberal
Donahue
Bennington Banner
George F. Will
Washington Post
Washington
San Francisco
Seattle
B.P.O. Elks
Dwyer’s
Elks
Ington Volunteer Fire Department
Bradford’s Mill
Bennington Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Roger Mattison
Roger G. Mattison
Lovers Lane
Denise Kelley
Jan Biller
Dawn Kelly
National Labor Relations Board
Shea Inc
North Bennington
Bennington County Court
NLRB
Boston
Brigham Young
Church of the Latter Day Saints
Jordan
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Nixon
John Sirica
Rita Cleminson
James Cleminson
Woodford
Bennington High School
Springfield
Mass
Bijur Lubricating Corp
Barber’s Pond
Ben
Edward Cortese
Levitt and Sons
Christendom
Frank E. Forthamp
Emma
Calvert
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