How to Write Your Autobiography Preserving Your Family Heritage
A humorous take on family dynamics as the Roots phenomenon grows with genealogy and autobiographies. Patricia Ann Case offers a practical manual using simple prompts and checklists to guide relatives through personal history, prompting memories, family anecdotes, and even retirement thoughts.
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Woodbridge Press
Patricia Ann Case
Augustine
Benjamin Franklin
Liv Ullmann
Peter Pan Tea House opens in Knapp place Woodford City
A local notice describes Mrs. Edna Paddock opening the Peter Pan Tea House at the old Knapp place in Woodford City with a wood nymph theme. The report also notes Tri county Teachers' Association elections, a 19 inch trout catch, and Vermont civil defense air watch requirements.
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Edna Paddock
Knapp Place
Woodford City
Mary E. Hutton
Bennington High School
Tri-county Teachers’ Association
Ralph Barber
Frank Barber
North Bennington
Will There Be an England Again After Upstairs Downstairs
A Sunday Night feature reviews Upstairs Downstairs fundraising at Eaton Place and its American reception. It highlights $1,735,000 pledged to Public Television, wartime class dynamics, insularity, and calls for Britain’s self reflection, praising British drama while noting American broadcasts.
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Eaton Place
Britain
Winston Churchill
Jean
Rachel Gurney
Marjorie Bellamy
Miss Gurney
BBC
Public
Letter on Montpelier bypass and Route 7 neglect
A Letter to the Banner accuses the highway department in Montpelier of bypassing Bennington with a 120 acre $15 million project while neglecting deteriorating Route 7 for over a decade. The writer cites six fatalities in five years to suggest preventable deaths and questions plans for a four lane corridor past Mammoth Mart that funnels into a sharp curve near Bennington College.
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Montpelier
Bennington
Bennington Flats
Mt. Anthony
Shaftsbury
Sunderland
Mammoth Mart
Bennington College
Four-Lane Project Sparks Bennington Debate
Bennington residents argue the four-lane strip is a costly boondoggle. They question finishing to the village center and warn against a $40 to $50 million Super 7 project. They urge funds be redirected to safer, more economical road improvements.
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North Bennington Village
Vietnam responsibility letter to the editor sets record straight
Arlington resident William Pierson Sohn responds to our May 7 editorial The road not taken. He argues Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson and Nixon all affected Vietnam with intervention or escalation, accusing the current policy of following a bad precedent and noting Nixon later stopped the fighting. Letters to the editor must include signature and address.
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Ford
U.S
Washington
Truman
Korea
Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson
Gulf of Tonkin
Sen
Fulbright
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