Local Authors:
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Russell
Belding
From
Hitching Posts to Gas Pumps
A History
of North Main Street
Barre, Vermont
1875 - 1915
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A
comprehensive look at each of the buildings of a small New England
city's main thoroughfare over a 40-year period, "From Hitching
Posts to Gas Pumps" uncovers stories about people like:
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Angelo
Scampini, liquor wholesaler and bear hypnotist, who also managed to
build the Scampini Bloc, current home of the Barre branch of the
Northfield Savings Bank. |
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Oren H.
Hale, auctioneer, hotelier, and owner of Barre's first movie theater. |
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Laura A.
Houghton, owner and proprietor of the most prosperous laundry in
Barre. |
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Cyrus Hall,
who, after falling into the river in back of North Main, was quoted as
remarking, "This ain't holy water." |
Through a
mosaic of detail and anecdote, "From Hitching Posts to Gas
Pumps" goes up and down North Main Street to trace the transformation
of Barre, Vermont, from sleepy rural backwater to energetic boomtown.
It
may be purchased at the Aldrich Public Library and local book stores for
$26.45
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Pat
Belding's New Book
Talk
of the Town
Highlights
from Vermont's Popular Column in the Barre Daily Times
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A year in
the life of a Central Vermont community at the height of prohibition,
when bootleggers were plying their trade and Revenue Officers were
conducting liquor raids on local residents - - when Calvin Coolidge was
president, the Ku Klux Klan was active in Vermont, and more and more
people were affording cars, thanks to Henry Ford.
A
144-page paperback, printed in black and white, with over 40
photographs, most of which were borrowed from the Archives of Barre
History at the Aldrich Public Library. This bound book is a
companion piece to Beldings's Through Hell and High Water in Barre,
Vermont, published in 1998.
It
may be purchased at the Aldrich Public Library and local book stores for
$13.00 plus tax.
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