Williamstown to stage Mister Booth closing season
Williamstown Mass the Williamstown Summer Theater will close its season with Mister Booth a new musical directed by Nikos Psacharopoulos. The show runs August 27 to 31 and relates the life of actor Junius Booth and his influence on Edwin Booth through a raucous colorful $ moving 1850s tour. Austin Pendleton wrote the book with Rubinstein handling orchestration and music direction.
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Williamstown
Mass
Mister Booth
Williamstown Summer Theater
Nikos Psacharopoulos
Junius Booth
Edwin
America
Austin Pendleton
Arthur Rubinstein
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Pendleton
Jonathan
Lincoln Center
Rubinstein
Becket
Bergman
Buskirk Club Sets July Picnic at Cossaguna Lake
Winners listed for Women's Auxiliary card party with Lillian Coon and Rena Brundige as high and low. Grover Rogers tops men’s list, Lawrence Barton low. Blanche Royal wins door prize, James Montgomery special. Couples Club picnic noted for Sunday July 28 at Cossaguna Lake. Numerous visiting relatives mentioned from Ravena Flint Mich Schaghticoke area and Fly Summit.
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Lillian Coon
Low
Rena Brundige
Grover Rogers
Lawrence Barton
Blanche Royal
James Montgomery
Couples Club of Buskirk
Cossaguna Lake
Donna Pratt
Ravena
Richard Marshall
Dodge Fibers executive bid farewell at Hoosick Falls dinner
Bar rington Rose, engineering manager of Dodge Fibers Corp for over six years, was honored with a July 10 farewell dinner at Sharkey's Hotel Hoosick Falls. Forty Dodge Fibers and affiliate executives attended as Rose and wife prepared semi retirement plans and new ventures in Narragansett Rhode Island.
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Hoosick Falls
N. Y
Barrington Rose
Dodge Fibers Corporation
Sharkey’s
Dodge Fibers
Dodge Machine & Tool and
Circuit Materials Corp
Cleveland E. Dodge Jr
Malcolm Hirschey
Dodge Machine & Tool
William McMartin
Thomas Wysocki
Lancashire County
England
Dodge Fibers Corp
Chemo Textiles
West Warwick
R.I
Mr. Rose
Dodge Machine & Tool Co
Dodge Machine & Tool Company
East Arlington Guests and Local Visits Highlight Week
Local families and visitors arrive from Seattle North Arlington Bridgeport and Rutland for visits and repairs. Several residents travel to see relatives while others recover at Putnam Memorial Hospital and Albany Hospital. The Rev Charles W Grande leads service at 10 a.m. and Enterprise Society hosts a successful church bazaar and auction.
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Lee Houghton
Seattle
Wash
William Houghton Jr
Keynith Knapp
Andrew Miller
Eliot
Maine
Charles McManus
North Arlington
N.J
Freeman McManus
DeForrest Jones Sr
Putnam Memorial Hospital
John Daminas
Bridgeport
Local Socials Report A Maine Vacation Visit And More
Hoosick resident Mrs. Harrison J. Philpott and sister Mrs. Carroll Lohnes visited Mrs. Charles Harter in Valley Falls with other family members. Cathy Prebble from Schenectady vacationing with grandmother Florence Smith. Leslie Burtons vacationing in Bailey Island Maine. Sanford Rifenburg vacationing in Cropseyville with Kenneth Phillips. Mrs. Charles E. Breer visiting cousin Miss Audna B. Cipperly in Troy.
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Harrison J. Philpott
Harold G. Lohnes
Carroll Lohnes
Canon City
Colo
Charles Harter
Valley Falls
Cathy Prebble
Schenectady
Florence Smith
Leslie J. Burton
Bailey Island
Maine
Sanford Rifenburg
Cropseyville
Kenneth Phillips
Charles E. Breer
Audna B. Cipperly
Troy
Woodford Schnauzer Spice Wins CD Qualification at Holyoke Show
Miniature Schnauzer Spice owned by Raymond and wife of Woodford City earned her final qualifying score toward the AKC Companion Dog CD degree at the Holyoke Kennel Club show on July 21. She previously qualified at Wenham Massachusetts on June 15 and South Hadley Massachusetts on June 22. The Harleys say Spice may be the only CD degree holder in the Bennington area.
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Woodford
Triton
Pepper Spice
Raymond Hurleys
Woodford City
Holyoke
Spice
North Shore Kennel Club Inc
Wenham
Mass
Holyoke Dog Training Club
South Harley
Harleys
Bennington
Annual 4-H Field Day Set Aug. 3
POWNAL The annual Bennington County 4-H Field Day is set for Aug. 3 at Camp Ondawa in Sunderland. Activities begin at 10 a.m. with exhibits and demonstrations across floral, foods, clothing, crafts, and animal departments.
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Pownal
Bennington County
Amp Ondawa
Sunderland
Walloomsac Residents Tour Beacons and Attend Dispersal Sale
Walloomsac residents Mr and Mrs John Hoag accompanied by Mr and Mrs Roy Ott visited the Beacon Research Farm and the New York Artificial Breeders laboratories at Cornell University in Ithaca Friday and Saturday. They attend the Linahan Dispersal Black and White Sale at Clifton Springs. Miss Susan Austin of Center Brunswick enjoys vacation with her grandparents the Roscoe Austins. The Dorset Playhouse opens The Fourposter a two character play starring Fred Carmichael and Elizabeth Franz running through Sunday with curtain at 8 40 pm reservations held until 8 30 and opening night guests invited to a post performance coffee hour.
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John Hoag
Roy Ottman
West Sand Lake
Beacon Research Farm
New York
Cornell University
Ithaca
Clifton Springs
N.Y
Susan Austin
Center Brunswick
Roscoe Austin
William Brooks
Walloomsac
Plymouth
Mass
Burton Luke
Dorset Playhouse
Freundlich Pupils Present Bennington Music Recitals
The Freundlich pupil group hosted piano and harpsichord recitals at the Bennington Carriage Barn this month with Miss Jung Ja Kim, Thomas Flagg, and William Read. Lillian Freundlich will close the July series with a Beethoven Chopin Mozart and Kirchner program at 8 p.m. tomorrow. The concerts are open free to the public, the group plans to return next year for the twelfth summer.
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Bennington
Irwin Freundlich
Jung-Ja Kim
Beethoven
Thomas Flagg
Prokofiev
William Read
Scarlatti
Freundlich
Bennington College
Juilliard School of Music
Lillian Freundlich
Chopin
Mozart
Leon Kirchner
Harvard
New York City
Oberlin
Juilliard
New York
Hoosick Falls Ambulance Squad reports June activity
Hoosick Falls Rescue Squad logged 20 ambulance calls in June with 16 emergencies and 655 miles driven across 28 hours 50 minutes. Equipment used included five Reaves stretchers and multiple portable devices. 22 total calls included two truck deployments for accidents. Patients were transported to Cambridge Hospital Bennington Health Center V A Albany Samaritan Troy Rest Home and a home.
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Cambridge Hospital
Bennington
V.A
Albany
Samaritan
Troy
New York State Ambulance and First Aid Association
Hoosick Falls
Robert Hebert
Yankee Doodlers Drill Night Moves to Wednesday
Arlington announces the Yankee Doodlers drill group changes to Wednesday nights at 7 in the kindergarten rooms. Tel DR 5-2355 for details.
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Ann Marsh
East Dover Ladies Aid supper sale funds church water project
About 177 suppers were served in the Town Hall on Saturday as part of the East Dover Ladies Aid Society summer sale. Proceeds of about 150 go to the church water fund. Auctioneers Ed Bartlett of West Dover and Lester Pine of Hoosick Falls led a busy Lions auction with many items sold. Proceeds support community projects. Refreshment booth earnings totaled around 60. The Berry family from Covington and others visited. Various local travel and property news conclude the brief.
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East Dover
George Kershaw
Russell Hanson
Robert la
Shaftsbury Vacation Bible School Enrollment Grows
Sixty five children attend the Daily Vacation Bible School at First Methodist Church Shaftsbury with the theme Widening Relations covering children of other lands. Daily films and discussions accompany age appropriate classes. Arts crafts music and refreshments are offered. The closing picnic is set for Friday at Rotary Deer Park in Bennington.
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Shaftsbury
First Methodist Church
Rotary Deer
Vermont visitors and local college notes blend in weekend greetings
Visiting Mrs. Charles Duke over the weekend were two UVM alumni favorites Miss Constance Anderson of Brandon and Miss Janice Cole Miss Vermont of 1961. Peter Lane of Fitchburg Mass visited town and leads Rotary pool duties and backs a new four year college Nathaniel Hawthorne in Antrim NH which just completed its first year with 150 students. Peter notes many youths want to attend a New England college the more new ones the merrier. Guests of L A Soderbergs Monday night were Dr and Mrs Pieter Van Lier of Sioux Falls SD who enjoy touring New England each summer and have Manchester and the Soderbergs on their itinerary since meeting on a cruise years ago.
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SHAFTSBURY — _ Taconic Grange
Effie Mattison
Alfred la Tour
Grange
Longtin
Julia Booth
Ella Cross
Marion Harris
Russell Carpenter
John Cross
Vermont
Eunice Myers
Pomona
Old First
Old Bennington
Rotary
Charles Duke
UVM
Constance Anderson
Brandon
Janice Cole
Peter Lane
Fitchburg
Mass
Peter
Rotary Pool
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Antrim
N.H
New England
L.A
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Quincy
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Walker
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Dorothy Bailey
Cameron Kibby
Fort Lauderdale
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Dexter Miller
Pittsfield
Miss Bailey
Rollin Christian
Orwell, Vt
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Dorset
Jan de Hartog
Jessica Tandy
Hume Cronyn
Fred Carmichael
Caravan
Elizabeth Franz
Caravan Theatre Group
Patricia Carmichael
Hoosick Falls Eagles
Cottrell
Edward Kyer
White Creek
Leverett LeBarron
Virginia McCart
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Hazel Avery
Lois Hanselman
James Redden
River Road
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Babcock Lake
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William E. Burns
River Street
Walter Sheridan
Fourth Street
Hampton Beach, N.H
Harry Sternberg
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Carlo Walter Tel
Christiana Inn
G. William and Harriette Hamilton
Saugus
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California
Shaftbury Vacation Bible School
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Roberta Kline
Virginia Dooley
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
Alan Mattison
Sally Mattison
Gwynn Paddock
Christine Greene
Elaine Greene
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Latham Circle
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Manchester
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