Samuel Chamberlain dies in Marblehead at 79 famed etcher
Samuel Chamberlain, 79, internationally known etcher, writer and photographer, died Friday at Mary Alley Hospital Marblehead after a short illness. His works are in the British Museum and Metropolitan Museum. He authored and illustrated travel and art books and produced engagement calendars. He was born in Cresco Iowa October 28 1895 and served in World War I with the American Field Service before study at MIT. Funeral Tuesday at St Michael's Church Marblehead with burial at Waterside Cemetery. Donations to St Michael's Church suggested.
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Marblehead
Mass
Samuel Chamberlain
Mary Alley
The
Berkshires
Chamberlain
British Museum
Bibliotecque Nationale
Paris
Metropolitan Museum
New York
Boston Public Library
Europe
Sheffield
Williamstown
Berkshire Eagle
Hastings House
Eagle
Berkshire Hills Conference
Berkshire County Historical Society
Narcissa
Alexander Stollers
Williamsville
West Stockbridge
Cresco
Iowa
George E. and
Cora Lee Summers Chamberlain
Aberdeen
Wash
University of Washington
France
MIT
U.S. Army Air Corps
Narcisse Chamberlain
New York City
Stephanie Chamberlain
Walter Wiebenson
Arch Cape
Ore
St. Michael’s Church
Waterside Cemetery
19th century maps added to UMass Amherst collection
Amherst researchers gain 275 bound volumes of New England New York and New Jersey maps and atlases. The gift from the Federal Land Bank includes 171 county atlases 44 bound county maps and 60 other atlas and topographical volumes. The collection features a first edition 1829 Atlas of the State of New York by Burr and provides detail identifying landowners and even portraits, aiding social economic and visual area understanding.
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Amherst
Mass
New England
New York
New Jersey
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Library
Federal Land Bank
Springfield
Umass Library
American Antiquarian Society
Harvard College Library
Boston Public Library
State of
David H. Burr
Special Collections Department
Library
North Bennington Trustees Meet to Discuss Entertainment License
The North Bennington Village Trustees convene at 6 p.m. at the village offices to review John G. Stanley’s request for an entertainment license for the Junction Restaurant at Bank Street Extension and Route 67. Stanley leased the premises from Karl Harrington. decision postponed a week for research and local input, with a plan to take up the item around 6:30 p.m. and hear public opinion.
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North Bennington Village
John G. Stanley
Junction
Bank Street
Route 67
Stanley
Karl Harrington
Bennington
North Bennington
Pownal Community Notices And Honors
Local groups such as Pownal Fire Protective Association East Pownal Volunteers Fire Department Pownal Center Fire Department Pownal Lions Club Pownal Parent Teacher Group and East Pownal Fire Auxiliary hold meetings this week at their respective venues with times including 7 30 pm 6 pm and 7 30 pm Officers to be elected at the PTG meeting with children invited Marine Cpl Alan E Langlais son of Castle Hill North Pownal received a meritorious mast with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Beaufort SC noting his 1973 Mount Anthony Union High School graduation and Marine Corps enlistment in September 1973 Also mentioned is library work at UMass Morrill Science Center and a note on the Federal Land Bank now user owned as part of the Farm Credit System.
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Pownal
Marine Cpl
Alan E. Langlais
Marcel A. Langlais
Castle Hill
North Pownal
2Nd Marine Aircraft Wing
Marine Corps Air Station
Beaufort
S.C
Mount Anthony Union High School
Marine Corps
Morrill Science Center
Umass
Benton Hatch
John Kendall
Federal Land Bank
Farm Credit System
North Adams AAUW to discuss 19th century American women
Mrs. Margaret B. Frasier a Hoosick Falls NY home economics teacher will speak January 18 at 2 p.m. in Bowman Hall Room 215 North Adams State College. Her talk Outstanding American Women of the Nineteenth Century draws on regional figures. Public invited.
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North Adams
Mass
Margaret B. Frasier
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
North Adams Area
American Association of University Women
Bowman Hall
North Adams State College
Frasier
National Honor Society
Resources Council to Meet Tuesday in Manchester Barn
North Shire Human Resources Council meets Tuesday at the Ethan Allen College Barn in Manchester. Agenda includes dues issues, possible steering committee election, and a brief talk on applying for revenue sharing funds. John G. Simson, executive director of the Bennington County Regional Commission, speaks on Economy Ecology and the Human Experience. Public invited, bring a bag lunch.
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Manchester
North Shire Human _ Resources Council
Ethan Allen College
Bennington County Regional Commission
John G. Simson
Grange notes on January meeting and activities
Deputy Belle Decker led a ritual program at the Battenkill Grange meeting on January 2 with Master Roy Crofut assisting. Projects include a Grange wood program due April 2 and entries in needlework and patchwork pillows.
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Belle Decker
Battenkill Grange
Roy Crofut
Pomona
Grange
Steven Matteson
Steven
Arlington Post Office
Old Cemetery Association
Reinienahill
Handmade book tells story of Hoosac Tunnel in Mass
Pittsfield writer artist John M. Bazan has produced two hand written hand bound copies of The Hoosac The Story of the Greatest Engineering Achievement in America During the 19th Century. He spent two months on each 25 page volume and gave one copy to the Berkshire Athenaeum and the other to the North Adams Public Library. The Hoosac Tunnel runs about 4 1 2 miles through the Hoosac range and took 22 years to complete starting in 1851 with a cost of 21 million dollars and 196 workers lost. Trains ceased passenger service in 1958 but freight runs continue. Bazan plans more Berkshire art after finishing the tunnel project.
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Pittsfield
Mass
John M. Bazan
Hoosac Tunnel
North Adams
America
Berkshire
Althenaeum
Troy & Greenfield
Famine 1975 theme guides Dartmouth colloquy in 1965
Dartmouth College and the Upper Valley host a week of discussions from February 17 to 21 on the Paddocks book Famine 1975. Geographers and business experts examine food shortages amid population growth, with special lectures by Dartmouth faculty and Tuck School scholars. The Villagers Homemakers Extension Group meets January 15 to discuss Meat Alternatives and time management.
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Dartmouth College
Dartmouth
Upper Valley
Geography Department
Amos Tuck School of Business Administration
Villagers Homemakers Extension Group
McCullough Library
Ronald Nadeau
Milton Mackey
Vermont Academy fund drive tops $1 million milestone
Vermon t Academy reports the Second Century Fund has reached 1 005 500 dollars toward a 2 500 000 goal for campus improvements. Headmaster Michael Choukas Jr notes progress but says work remains. The campaign has funded Jones Hall renovations and a planned hockey rink, Alumni Hall, and Fuller Hall projects before the 1976 centennial.
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Saxtons River
Vermont Academy
Michael Choukas Jr
Jones Hall
Alumni Hall
Fuller Hall
Paul Jones
Jones
Arlington calendar shows weekly gatherings and sports notices
A weekly Arlington calendar lists catechism classes at St. Margaret Marys Hall on Monday and Tuesday, Arlington versus Springfield and Otter Valley home games, Grange meetings in West Arlington, Arlington Rescue Squad, Battenkill Grange socials, and a snowmobile club meeting at the firehouse. Patches at meeting cost 1 50 each. VAST dues require registration, with January deadline. American Legion Auxiliary Christmas gift exchange moved to Tuesday night.
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St. Margaret Mary’s Hall
Arlington
Springfield
Firehouse
Otter Valley
Community House
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Rooms
Battenkill Grange
Grange Hall
West Arlington
LeLand and Gray
Arlington Rescue Squad
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Pamela Blakeman
Solomon Wright
East Pownal
Pownal Center
South Stream Road
Resources Council
George Cooledge
Helen Whitman
William Killmartin
Robert Lindsey
Shirley Matteson
Ned Williams
Sandy Matteson
Robert Whitman
Mike Hayes
Tommy Miller
John Isselhardt
Ethan Allen
Walker
Mastercharge and
Bankamericard
Dustomi Furniture Inc
Vermont
EL Street
Bazan
Preston Ave
John Bazan
Hanover
N.H
William
Paul Paddock
Foreign Service
Robert E. Huke
Paddocks
Wayne Broehl
Benjamin Ames Kimball
Tuck School
Indian Subcontinent
Latin America
Helene Thompson
Manson -Walbridge
Triple ‘‘S
Grand Union Empire
U.S
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
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