It’s hard to believe with all the sports available today to men and women, boys and girls, that a hundred years ago there was really only one game in town and that was baseball. It truly was the National Pastime back then. A history written in the 1950’s indicated that Hartland had fielded a town […]
Category: People
Lewis E. Merritt
Lewis E. Merritt 1868-1946 Now to honor Leon Royce’s request that Lewis Merritt be featured in the H.H.S. newsletter. When Leon was growing up in the house next to Damon Hall on the main street, the Merritts lived just up the street in the fine house now occupied by Larry and Jeannie Frazer. Of course, […]
Leon Royce
Leon Royce July 15, 1924 – January 16, 2016 This newsletter is dedicated to Leon Royce, a life-long Hartland resident and long-time H.H.S. member who died in Florida this past winter. After his retirement from teaching and coaching at Windsor High School, Leon and wife Marjorie went to Florida every winter for the Red Sox […]
More on the Damons
by Les Motschman While researching the Damon essay, I read a sentence in the 1985 application to place Damon Hall on the National Register of Historic Buildings that alluded to a subject in which I have long been interested. After noting that William Damon married Alma Otis of Windsor, the researcher wrote: “Thereafter the […]
The Damons
Damon Hall is a memorial to Luther and Betsey Thayer Damon and their children, especially William Emerson Damon, through whose generosity the gift of the building was made possible. The Damon family in Hartland dates back to 1805, when they came from Peabody, Massachusetts (the Damon farm was just south of the present I-91 interchange.). […]
History and Anniversary of Hartland – Nancy Darling (1913)
In November 1913 as Hartland, Vermont was celebrating its 150th anniversary, The Vermonter magazine published an article by Nancy Darling entitled, “History and Anniversary of Hartland”. The following is a transcribed version of that article. History and Anniversary of Hartland By NANCY DARLINGFrom the day when Gov. Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire granted the […]
Dr. Paul Spooner’s Tow Cloth
Dr. Paul Spooner’s Tow Cloth We know from the 1789 tax list that Dr. Paul Spooner was a wealthy man. This list was taken just 2 months before his untimely death at the age of 43. I was very interested in the “tow cloth” that was listed on this and many of the other tax […]
The Store in North Hartland
When we drive through North Hartland it is hard to not be impressed by the beautiful old store building on the West side of the common, but did you know that it was built as a showroom for carriages and not as a general store at all? In 1875 and in 1883 Betsy Marble and […]
October – a poem by Byron Ruggles
Full now upon the yellow fields, The mellow haze of autumn rests, The harvest now it’s fullness yields, And all the needs of man are blest. ‘Tis wonderful! October’s sun, Makes paradise of noon, And night, with all her stars as one, Plays homage to the moon. October is the artist gay, Who […]
Fun and Revenue in Skunks for Hartland boy trappers
Nov 30, 1920 (This may be more than you want to know. C.Y.M.) The boys are trapping these days. Hartland has a live group of youngsters who wake with their alarm clocks, crawl out of bed at an early hour, put on their”skunkin’clo-es”, take a club and a flashlight and set out in the dim […]