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A List of Stories Ever Published in Vermont's Northland Journal

 

 

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April 2002 (First Issue)

 

*A Tribute to Four Fallen Sportsmen

*An Old Fisherman Remembers

*Boston Bruins Founder, Charles Adams, Born in Newport

*Sugar Camp – Then, Now, and In-Between

*Opera House’s Old Roof Gets New Use – As a Floor

*Dale Woods – Preserving the History of Newport One Postcard at a Time

*Citizens Utilities Hydroelectric Plant Past and Present in Pictures

*Crystal Lake “Sea Monster” Probably Otter

*Craftsbury to Iwo Jima and Back

*The Legend of the Golden Nail

*The Yiocco

*Genealogy

 

May 2002

 

*A Glimpse Into Island Pond’s Past in Pictures

*Planting Moons – the then is the Now

*Lyndon Man Communications Pioneer and First President of AT&T

*The Great T.N. Vail and His Mansion

*Rekindled Memories

*Reg Alexander – Preserving Memories of the Kingdom

*Orleans in Pictures – Past and Present

*Breaking the Silence – Memories of a Death Camp

*A Tragedy on Lake Memphremagog

*Genealogy

 

June 2002

 

*A Look at St. Johnsbury During the Last 100 Years

*History’s Mysteries

*Shining Shoes to Selling Booze – A Newport Man Remembers Prohibition

*Causality of War, the Story of my Great, Great, Grandfather

*Historical Preservation

*The Willoughby Lake Road – Past and Present

*D-Day Remembered through the Eyes of a Survivor

*The Immortal Chaplains

*Heritage Gardens: Remembering Family Stories With Plants

*Rekindled Memories – Vail Mansion Under Construction

*Newport’s First Aerial Photograph

*Genealogy

 

July 2002

 

*The Flood of 1927 – Pictures from the Kingdom

*Brian Smith of Derby – A Man with a Plan for a Memorial in Derby

*The Monument – a Lasting Tribute to the Derby Residents Who Served in the Civil War

*Civil War Round Table discuss, The Battle of the Ironclads

*The Twin Sisters: The lovely Islands (Twin Islands)

*What is a Pow Wow Anyhow?

*Wartime Enemies, Peacetime Friends

*Vermont History Expo 2002 is now history

*Pipe-smoking, fish-crazy Maggie Little

 

August 2002

 

*The History of Westmore from 1780 to 1850

*Historical Society Preserves Island Pond’s and the Legacy of International Railroad

*Camp Duncan – a Derby Camp for New York Boys

*Philip, Abenaki Indian Chief, and Philip’s Grant

*A Great Grandfather’s Present from the Grave

*Wartime Enemies, Peace Time Friends – Part 2

*Cargo Ship Tourist

*The Old Air Project

*Lyndonville: Once Vermont’s Toughest Town

 

September 2002

 

*September 11 Terrorist Attack Remembered

*Sink or Swim 9/11 – poem by Krystle Menard

*The History of Logging in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

*The Unraveling of a Civil War Soldier’s Secret Life

*It’s Archaeology Month. What is Archaeology All About?

*Reaching Out to America’s Future – poem by Lindsey Simmons

*Santa’s Village Celebrates an Anniversary – 50 Years of Bringing Joy to Children

*Ann Story: Vermont’s Heroine of Independence

*The Fletcher School House

*Rekindling Memories of Past Demolition Derbies

*Thomas Mower Martin – Famous Painter and Lake Memphremagog Landmark

*University of Vermont Researcher Looking for Native American Women to Take Part In Health Study

*Genealogy

 

October 2002

 

*Remembering Veteran Reporter, Terry Albee

*From the Bombed-Out Streets of London to the Rolling Hill of Vermont: A WWII War Bride Tells Her Story

*Those Were the Days: Remembering and Preserving the History of the Derby Port Drive-In

*Derby’s Indirect Link to Washington Irving – Camp Duncan

*Alexander Twilight: Vermont’s African American Pioneer

*Charles M. Chase Provided Chuckles as Well as News in the Old Vermont Union

*Pulitzer Prize Winning Civil War Historian/Writer, James McPherson, Speaks in Newport

*Former St. Johnsbury Woman Honored by the Northeast Kingdom Civil War Roundtable for Preserving History

*Spruce Gum and Butter Nutting

*The Barton River: A River Named After Colonel William Barton

*Remembering 1902 – What a Difference 100 Year Makes

*Genealogy

 

November 2002

 

*The Ducks were Flying and the Coffee was Spilling

*Roland Devost – a Living Icon to the Town of Norton, Remembers the Return of the Moose to the County

*Remembering the Hurricane of 1938

*Vermont Civil War Historian Speaks in Brownington

*Surviving General Grant’s Overland Campaign: A Civil War Veteran from Jay Vermont Tells his Story

*The Battle of Chancellorsville

*Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga

*It Only Takes One Shot – Memories of the Rabbit that Didn’t Get Away

*Slipperyskin – Bear, Bigfoot, or Indian?

*Solving a 67 Year Old Mystery at the Bottom of Lake Memphremagog

*The Day the Kingdom Went Dark: Memories of the 1932 Solar Eclipse

*The Eclipse was a Thrill for Some, and a Dud for Others. Newspaper Clippings Tell the Story

*My Encounter with Peeping Toms

*Who is that trapper?

*Genealogy

 

December 2002

 

*Publisher to Run for Office in 2004 – NOT!

*Rumrunners and Revenuers: Prohibition in Vermont. A review of my new book

*One Man’s Memories of the Flood of 1927

*Derby Line Man’s Wartime Leadership Remembered in a Book

*Big Jack, the Bearded Ghost Who Came to a Picnic

*Lyndonville Area Residents Learn About the History of the Abenaki in Vermont

*The Continuing Adventures of Ethan Allen

*From the Urban Streets to Rural Vermont, One Man’s Search for the Orphans Who Road the Rails to Vermont

*Colorful Characters Who Lived along the Shores of Lake Memphremagog

*Christmas in 1890

*Canadian Man Working to Preserve the History of Jay Peak Ski Resort

*Genealogy

 

January 2003

 

*Happy New Year From the Publisher

*Memories of an Old Fisherman – A Tribute to Harold Kelley – A Man Who Lived the Real History of the Clyde River

*The Makings of a Ski Mountain – the History of the Jay Peak Ski Resort (first in a series)

*From the Green Mountains of Vermont to the Jungles of the Pacific – A Soldier Tells His Story (Part II)

*Willoughby Preserved

*One-Step, Two Step, Side Step – Happy New Years

*What’s in a Name? A Genealogist’s Look at French and Native American Names

*A Teacher Remembers the Days of the One Room School House

*Genealogy

 

February 2003

 

*Kingdom Historical (now the Northland Journal) Delivery Dog Injured in Crash – humorous look at a near death experience

*The Canaan Line House – Two Rutland Area Men Search for Information About Their Grandfather and the Business He Owned

*A Brief History of Jay Peak – A Tale of Two Counties, and No Road

*Early Willoughby Tales

*The Death of More than a Commander – the Death of a friend. The third in a series about a Derby Line man’s wartime experiences in the Pacific

*Bootleg or the Poorhouse

*No Fine, Just a Lecture and a Salmon

*Life Is A Story: “That Reminds Me of a Story.”

*50 Years of Broadcasting in the Kingdom – WIKE Celebrates a Milestone

*The History of Lake Memphremagog’s Province Island

*Genealogy

 

March 2003

 

*Northland Journal Turns One Year Old

*The Life and Death of a Man Named Gerald Bull – The Man Who Made the Supergun

*Sugaring in the Northeast Kingdom – An Irasburg Man Shares His Story

*The Awakening and Sweetwater Sugar Making

*John Holtman – The Hermit of Owl’s Head

*War in the Pacific – The Final Chapter

*Memories of Lake Willoughby

*Remembering Walter Foeger, the Man Who Helped Put Jay Peak on the Map

*Legendary Civil War Historian and Battlefield Guide, Ed Bearss, Speaks at the Northeast Kingdom Civil War Roundtable

*Following the Path of an American Wonderer: The Life of a Wheelock Man

*Charleston Researcher, Richard Colburn Sr., Shares his Research and Looks for Help

*The Geezer Exam

*North Country Union High School Ski Champs

 

April 2003

 

*True American Icons: Reeve Lindbergh Remembers Her Parents

*Northeast Kingdom Students Revisit History

*Civil War Roundtable Looks at WWII

*Shoeboxes of Relatives, Treasure, and the Seventh Generation

*Walter Foeger and Jay Peak (Part 3)

*Byron Cook’s Sugar House (Part 2)

*The Westminster Massacre: The First Blood of the American Revolution

*Too Long a Winter? A Humorous look at winter.

*A Brief History of the Academies in Lyndon

*Fishing stories from the Kingdom

*The U.S. is at War Whether We Like it or Not

 

May 2003

 

*Remembering to Remember the Veterans

*Fishing in the Kingdom

*Five Generations of Fishermen

*Lady of the Lake: A Name, A Legend, and a Gem

*The Christ of Crystal Lake

*The Old Time St. Johnsbury Crackers

*A Kingdom War Bride Recalls the Horrors of the Nazi Occupation of France

*Celebrating New Beer’s Days – The 70th Anniversary of the Return of Beer

*Seth Warner: The Commander of the Green Mountain Boys

*Indian Doctresses, Marie Agathe – Mali Agat – Molly Orcutt

*How did we ever survive?

 

June 2003

 

*Collecting and Sharing Stories

*Demise of the Old Man of the Mountain

*Ship Under Attack! HMS Rohna Sunk in Mediterranean Sea

*The Joys of Camping – Sometimes disasters make for the best memories

*Willow Whistles and the Ordinary Magic of Childhood

*Fire! The Valley House Has Burned and Been Rebuilt Twice. Can it be Rebuilt Again?

*Until Death, or the Lions, Do you Part

*Seth Warner in the Grants (Part II)

*He’s Hooked on Fishing – the Hook that Caught the Fisherman

*Charleston, Vermont Celebrates a Bicentennial

*A Picnic by the Dam Site

*The Story of a Rare Beauty on Lake Memphremagog: The Minnie

*How Old is Grandma?

*No Vermonters in Heaven

 

July 2003

 

*Gregory Sanford: Preserving Vermont’s History One Document at a Time

*Lake Monsters: In Search of Gog in the Kingdom

*Tmakwok – Beaver – Community Builder

*The War of 1812: American Victory or American Disaster

*Derby Attacked: The War of 1812 Comes to Vermont

*The Orleans County Historical Society Celebrates Its Sesquicentennial

*Dr. Cutting’s Once Famous Observatory in Lunenburg

*Seth Warner’s Rise to Command (Part III)

*A Summer of Celebration: Troy, Vermont Marks Its Bicentennial

*Getting in the Hay at Warden Farm

*Long Pond Lost! The Story of Runaway Pond

 

August 2003

 

*Mourning the Loss of an American Hillbilly – Jed Clampett

*Two Women, a Painted Cow, and a Friendship Rekindled

*Celebrating Gog, One of the Kingdom’s Mythical Lake Creatures

*When Rudy Vallee Came Home to Island Pond

*Trollope’s 1861 Ascent of Owl’s Head. Hiking Party Lost in Storm

*Seth Warner in Canada. The Green Mountain Boys Take Montreal (Part IV)

*My Grandfather. Remembering the Honorable Frank C. Williams

*School Recesses: Fun Back in the 1930s

*Doctor Rachel Allyn, Vermont’s Pioneering Physician

*A Quick Look Back at the Last 100 Years

 

September 2003

 

*Walking to and from School, “uphill both ways in three feet of snow.” The Art of Exaggeration

*The Forgotten War – a Barton Veteran Remembers the Korean War

*Honoring Warren “Jersey” Drown – Forester, Storyteller, and Orleans County Icon

*The George Burns of the Northeast Kingdom – Warren “Jersey” Drown – A Friend Remembers

*A Reader Remembers Warren “Jersey” “Buster” Drown

*The Dedication of the Memphre Tower – A Symbol of Lake Memphremagog’s Legendary Lake Creature

*Riah: A Spectacular Guy

*Battle in Quebec: An Ongoing Series of the Life of Seth Warner (Part V)

*A Year in the Life of a Vermont Farmer During the Depression. A Farmer’s Journal Resurfaces 73 Years Later

*A Walk on the Bright Side with a Tourist

 

October 2003

 

*Vermont Sends One of Its Favorite Sons to Washington D.C.

*Newspaper Lauds Congressman Winston Prouty and the Prouty Family of Newport

*Dad’s Deer Tactics. Tom Hahn’s Secrets Revealed by his Son

*Hayfield Landings in the Fall

*Where is Your Airport?

*Peboniwiakaumsis: Witch Hazel, Winterbloom, Snapping Hazel

*Witch Hazel – Different but Special

*Soldiers of the Soil

*Mystery Buried within Derby Farmer’s Journal is Unraveled

*Vermont Ski Museum to Induct 10 Mountain Division Members into Vermont Ski Hall of Fame

*The Phonograph Comes to the Northeast Kingdom

*Warner at Hubbardton. An Ongoing Series of the Life of Seth Warner (Part VI)

 

November 2003

 

*The Kingdom Historical to become the Northland Journal in January 2004

*Memories of Fish and Wildlife Warden Normand Moreau – From Both Sides of the Law Retired

*Vermont Fish and Wildlife Warden Normand Moreau Tells All

*World War II Memorial 5K Run/Walk Raises More than $1,000 for World War II Veterans

*Wide Racks & Tall Tales – A Deer Hunting Book with a Sense of Humor

*The Feast of Thanks

*Remembering the Hurricane of 1938

*Buildup Near Bennington – An Ongoing Series of the Life of Seth Warner (Part VI)

*Northeast Kingdom Civil War Roundtable Honors Tony and Gigi O’Connor

 

December 2003

 

*How many people here know what a dump rake is?

*Tackling the Poachers of the Clyde River (Part 2 of the life of Fish and Wildlife Warden Normand Moreau

*Fishing Gaffs: Reminders of the Clyde River’s Once Famed Salmon Run

*Trials of a Pioneer of Brighton Captured in a Letter

*Remembering the Famous Fur Bearing Trout of Lake Memphremagog

*The Miss Newport Diner Heads South to Massachusetts

*Good Old One-Room School Days

*Remembering the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

*Warner at Bennington: An Ongoing Series of the Life of Seth Warner (Part VII)

*Calendars, Time, Months, and Moons

*Vermont Historical Society President Visits Morgan

*Earliest Religious Activities in the Town of Navy, Now Charleston

 

January 2004

 

*Welcome to Vermont’s Northland Journal

*The Story of Willie Bell

*The Life of a Pioneer Family in the Town of Jay: The Barter Family Records

*Normand Moreau Part III: Surviving Rumors of Gunshots and Terminal Cancer

*A True Story of My One and Only Encounter with Normand Moreau

*Words of Wisdom About Vermont’s Seasons

*The Great Escape – The Wrong Way Home or The Long Way Home

*The Seventieth Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition

*Rug Hooking – A Cottage Industry in 1912

*Aftermath of Bennington (Part of a series)

 

February 2004

 

*Surviving the Northeast Kingdom’s Brutal Winter Weather and Loving Every Minute of It– Well, Almost Every Minute!

*A Modern Day Lawman Seeks to Honor a Lawman Killed in 1917

*Traffic Officer J.P. Manogue Shot and Killed Immigration Officer McDermott Twice Wounded R.J. Priddy, and Englishman Being Deported, the Assassin

*The Life of a Pioneer Family in the Town of Jay: The Barter Family Records (Part 2)

*My Kindergarten Teacher

*Remembering the Lucier General Store in Jay, Vermont in Pictures

*Paying Tribute to a Fallen Soldier from the Town of Jay

*Warner’s Legacy (last in a series)

*Log Drives on the Connecticut River

*Trail Markers of the Native Americans

*Lyndon Outing Club In Its 68th Year – Nonstop

*Remembering the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918

*The Spanish Influenza Strikes Orleans County: News from the Orleans County Monitor

 

March 2004

 

*Vermont Through the Eyes of a Stranger

*From the Green Mountains of Vermont to the Deserts of Iraq, A Vermont Marine Tells His Story

*Picture Found of Officer Slain in 1917

*Alpine Haven: The Fabulous Tale of a Chalet Community in Northern Vermont

*Tony O’Connor Retires as Head of the Northeast Kingdom Civil War Roundtable

*Meet Joan Huguenin, the New Leader of the Northeast Kingdom Civil War Roundtable

*Sugaring scenes by St. Paul’s school

*Gathering Sap – Syrup Recipes

*Kejegiglhas – Chickadees

*The Agony of Defeat in the Face of Mud Season

*Making Music in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

*Genealogy

*It’s not a Monster, but it is a Monster Fish

*Article on Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 Brings Back Memories

*A Ghost in the Family

 

April 2004

 

*Northland Journal Turns Two Years Old

*Remembering Nurses Training in the 1920s

*Into the Heart of Baghdad: A Vermont Soldier’s Story (Part II)

*Alpine Haven – A Fabulous Tale: (Part II)

*Summertime: When the Iceman Came

*Early Signs of Spring

*Reader Identifies Herself in a Picture

 

May 2004

 

*Memorial Day – A Day to Remember

*Memories of a Bygone Era on the Clyde River

*What a Small World – In War and Peace

*Everett and Dorothy Willard: A Couple Connected by the Love of Music

*Article Brings Music Back to Life for Newport Reader

*Mom’s Apron

*A Tribute to a Fallen Soldier – Bobby Roberts

*Lyndonville Grew Around a Tall Chimney

*Where is Missisquoi?

 

June 2004

 

*Mystery Fisherman Not Such a Mystery After All

*Growing up on Fletcher Farm

*Remembering Bert Curran – the Police Chief of the Village of Derby Line

*Haskell Free Library and Opera House Celebrates 100 Years Serving Communities in Vermont and Quebec

*Remember Baker – A Vermont Patriot (Part 1)

*Picture of Slain Officer Found but Search Goes On

*More Musical Adventures of the Willards

 

July 2004

 

*My Father, the Terror Suspect

*Remembering Fred Fauchs – Not such a Mystery Fisherman After All

*World War II Veterans and their Families Travel to WW II Memorial

in Washington, D.C.

*Graduations and Reunions – A Time to Remember

*Growing Up on Fletcher Farm

*Remember Baker – A Vermont Patriot (Part II)

*Veterans Honor Bobby Roberts

*Northland Journal Recognized for Honoring Veterans

*Bernard Matthews: Kingdom Music Man

 

August 2004

 

*Welcome Phish Fans to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

*The Weight of History, a story about the Abenaki presence in Vermont

*Paleoindian Spear Point Found in Derby – Estimated at about 10,000 Years Old

*Memories of Two Shadow Lake Vacation Spots

*Fishermen through the Lens of a Camera

*Morgan Veteran Honored for His Service During World War II

*Ribbon Cutting and Dedication at the Holland Historical Society

*Bernard Matthews: Kingdom Music Man (Part II)

 

September 2004

 

This is the Special Phish Edition. It was by far the biggest selling issue of the Northland Journal. In addition to many one of a kind pictures of the festival that attracted about 70,00 concert-goers to Coventry, Vermont, the publisher shares the memories of his three day stay at the festival – the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. This issue alone is sought after collector’s item

 

Also in this issue:

 

*A Strange Music in the Kingdom – the story of the history of hippie music in the Kingdom

*Archaeology – Sites and Resources

 

October 2004

 

*Sozap – Indian Joe, the Friendly Indian

*Scenes from the 15th Annual Intertribal/International Pow-Wow

*The Challenge of Mt. Pisgah

*Bog Shoes and the Charleston Meadows Along the Clyde

*Pictures from Phish

*A Strange Music in the Kingdom (Part 2)

*They Never Made the Dance: A Tragic End of Innocence

*What a Great Place and Time to Grow Up

*Genealogy

 

November 2004

 

*It’s Not Good to Argue Religion or Politics – and It Surely Isn’t Good to Argue Hunting

*The Death of an Outdoorsman

*Digging Up the History of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Warden

*The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department – Celebrating 100 Years of Service

*Pictures of Fall in the Kingdom

*Memories of a Bombing Mission Over the Skies of Europe – European man’s search for the American airmen who helped liberate his country

*The Last Flight of John S. Kendall of Newport, Vermont

*The Foolish Hunter

*A Strange Music In the Kingdom (Part III)

*Genealogy

 

December 2004

 

*Two Supreme Court Justices with a Link to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

*A First Christmas Memory

*The Warmth of a Wood Stove (In More Ways Than One)

*Flying South – a story of geese and their journey south for the winter

*World War II from the Clouds

*Celebrating the History of Holland and Its Neighbors: A Walk into the Past

*Morgan Historical Society Celebrates the Gift of a Home and Celebrates Vermont’s Native People

*Festival of a Lifetime – a Phish Follow-up

*Retired Orleans Fire Chief Shares His Thoughts on Phish

*Gigs of Giggles and Grimaces

*Genealogy

 

January 2005

 

*Farewell 2004 – Hello 2005

*Jay Peak Resort Celebrates 50 Years (12 pages)

*Life In Old-Time Burke

*An Aging Veteran Receives Much Deserved Recognition

*Newport Center is the Home of the Famous Tucker Sno-Cats

*Publisher of Northland Journal Puts His Foot in His Mouth on Statewide Television

*A Strange Music in the Kingdom – Part IV

*Genealogy

 

February 2005

 

*Time Flies When You’re Having Fun, or Growing Old

*Ski Professional, German Commando, and Olympic Ski Official Hubert Daberer Remembers the XIII Olympic Winter Games

*Ice Fishing in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom – It’s More than about Catching Fish

*Have Fun Fishing, but Watch Out For Thin Ice Warden Bob Lewis Warns

*Where Have All the Big Fish Gone in Lake Memphremagog?

*Ghosts Still Visit Cahoon Farm

*Warning from a Cat – Or Was That a Ghost?

*How to Ride a Cow – An Instruction Manual Written by a Farm Girl

*A Strange Music in the Kingdom – Part V

*Genealogy

 

March 2005

 

*Northland Journal Celebrates Three Years

*Snowbound – The Day Traffic Came to a Standstill on the Border

*Remembering Shirley (Towne) Olson

*Memories of Winters Past – 90 Years Ago

*Is It Winter Yet?

*Pebon – Winter

*Jay Peak Ski and Summer Resort Turns 50 Years Old – Founders Honored

*The Humorous and Serious Sides of Promoting the Jay, Vermont Region 40 Years Ago

*The Origin of Whetstone

*Marine Sergeant Jesse Strong Remembered

*Genealogy

 

April 2005

 

*Recognizing Some of the Writers Who Routinely Contribute to the Northland Journal

*Sugaring On Burke Mountain

*Years Ago in the Fletcher Sugarwoods

*Vermont Maple Syrup Recipes

*The Culture – It’s What Makes the Northeast Kingdom a World of Its Own

*The State for State Recognition – One Person’s Opinion

*Remembering Senator Julius Canns

*Culture and the Kitchen Table

*Memories of a Bird’s-eye View of the Clyde River

*Hometown Residents Remember Airman John Kendall

*An Outer Body-like Experience You’ll Never Forget

*The Friendship Quilt

*Spectacles of Show Business

*Genealogy

 

May 2005

 

*Northland Journal Recognized for Telling the Story of the Kingdom

*Abrasive Adventures

*A Son Remembers his Father – Fish and Wildlife Warden Edgar N. Strobridge

*Renowned Ski Champ with Newport Roots Passes Away

*Newspaper Articles Tell of Richardson’s Exploits on Skis

*Alice Lewis – the Grandmother of Jay Peak

*Buried in Snow

*Specialist Solomon Carias Bangayan Honored for Supreme Sacrifice

*Vermont Abenaki Cultural Differences

*Genealogy

 

June 2005

 

* The Sweet Smells of Spring in the Kingdom: fragrant flowers, fresh cut grass, and newly spread manure

* Holland Cow Girls – The Rumery Twins

* Vermont Woman Recalls Life of Hard Work

* The Milkman Passes into History

* Polar Bear Rescued by Derby Man

* The Man Behind the Bear – A Daughter Remembers

* The Weigh of 175 Years, Fairbanks Scales Celebrate an Anniversary

* Reflecting on Newport’s Past and the Proud History of the Goodrich Memorial Library

* Whetstone Rocks the Kingdom and Beyond – Part 3

* Genealogy

 

July 2005

 

* Thanks for the Memories – Remembering Two Old Friends

* Lyndon – A Stars and Stripes Town

* Remembering the End of World War II in Europe

* The Night the Tower Came Tumbling Down

* A 100-foot Tower Collapses Waters Covers 10 Generating Units

* Flora Jane Coutts – A Woman Before Her Time

* The Coutts-Moriarty Camp

* Northeast Kingdom Poet Evokes Old-fashioned Vermont Way of Life

* Hot Times (Whetstone)

* Genealogy

 

August 2005

 

* The Community Store – Far More Than a Place of Business

* Royal Canadian Air Force Plane in Death Plunge into Lake Memphremagog

* Canadian Pilot Lost Life in Lake Memphremagog

* Memories of a Diving Suit and a Tragedy

* Credit Me with a Little More Intelligence,” Island Pond Native Rudy Vallee Tells a Fan

* Church Answers Prayers of Morgan Historical Society

* Looking Back at the History of Morgan

* Bud Wilkerson Relieves “The Bulge” and POW life

* Looking for Help Identifying the Names Behind the Picture

* Former Newport Man Looking for Boxing Memorabilia

* In Memory of Lee John Curtis

* Last Call for Whetstone

* Basket Maker Shares Traditional Native American Skills

* Genealogy

 

September 2005

 

* The Wheeler Family Takes Flight

* Growing Up in Newport during the 1920s and 1930s

* Our Town (Part 1)

* Newport Native Donates $100,000 to Dialysis

* Impact of Terrorist Attack Felt in the Northeast Kingdom

* Historic Railroad Boosts Tourism

* Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s Ancestry Rooted in Coventry, Vermont

* Oscar the Pig

* A Warning Transmission

* Strawberry Shortcake

* Memories of a Snowstorm and a Sad Farewell

* Genealogy

 

October 2005

 

* Live Free or Die in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

* Boy Meets Wayward Moose in the Middle of Lake Willoughby

* Northeast Kingdom Sways to the Sound of Reggae

* Our Town – Part II: A Look Back at Earlier Times in Newport

* Thank you, Northeast Kingdom

* First American Woman to Earn a Nursing Diploma has Roots in Northeast Kingdom

* Woodshed Wisdom: Bread and Life’s Simple Choices

* World War II – A Civilian Point of View

* Genealogy

* Apple Trees Bear Fruit for St. Johnsbury Rep. David Clark

 

November 2005

 

* Good Morning, Bone Man

* Postcards: A Trip into the Region’s Past

* Vermont Couple Writing a Book about the Resurrection of Vermont Following the Flood of 1927

* Grandson of Police Officer Killed in 1917 Stunned By His Grandfather’s Past

* Our Town – Part III: A Look Back at Earlier Times in Newport

* Woodshed Wisdom: Hunter or Heel, Gallant or Gutless, Courageous or Cowardly,

* Fearsome or Feckless

* Ken Parr: A Midwesterner Adopts Vermont

* The Kingdom Remembers Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist

* Derby Man Remembers a Man Known as Bill – Bill Rehnquist that is

* Genealogy

 

December 2005

 

* Falling snow, crashing trees, and power outages: October Snow Storm Blitzs the Kingdom

* Winter Sports Facilities in Newport, Vermont

* Remembering Montgomery Ward – A Newport Icon

* Memories of a Long Ago Deer Hunt

* Woodshed Wisdom: I’ll Never Look Like a Barbie Doll

* Time Did What No Bullet Could: Remembering Roland Willey

* Hurricane Katrina Escapee and New Orleans Psychic Takes Up Residence in St. Johnsbury

* The Demise of the Coburn Hill Buck

 

January 2006

 

* A Look at the Year 2005

* Ice, Fish, Family, and Friends – That’s Ice Fishing in Vermont

* From Newport, Vermont, to the Streets of Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam: 30 Years After the End of the War

* Bringing Closure to a Long Search (Officer Joseph Manogue)

* A Flight Into the Past

* Looking Back at the History of Derby Academy’s North Hall

* Many Lifelong Skills Were Learned at Home

* Sentenced to Death – Part 1 (William Scott)

* Readers Recognize Old Friends in a Photo

* All of My Batteries Have Alzheimer’s Disease

* The Day the Music Died – Remembering America’s Oldest Bandleader Sterling Weed

* Genealogy

 

February 2006

 

* Scenes That You Won’t Find on a Calendar

* A Vermont Pictorial by Kevin Podd

* Skiers Bring Back Memories

* Football Photo Brings Back Memories

Service to Her Country: Evelyn Page Remembers World War II

* Deer Season, Life, and a Happy Homecoming

* Troll Press Closes its Doors After 33 Years

* Willie Johnston – America’s Youngest Medal of Honor Recipient

* The Joys of Homecoming

* Skating and Storytelling on Prouty Bay

* The Unveiling

* John Vining Hangs Up His Handgun for a Life of Retirement

* Technological Marvel – Duct Tape

* A Last Minute Pardon for William Scott – Part II

* Genealogy

 

March 2006

 

* The Question I’m Asked Most Often – How the Northeast Kingdom Got its Name

* The Man Who Gave Birth to the Northeast Kingdom: Governor George Aiken

* Governor James Douglas Reflects on the Man who once Filled his Seat – George Aiken

* Thoughts About Governor Aiken – By Senator Patrick Leahy

* George the Fisherman

* The Wise Old Owl of the Senate and the Smartest Decision He Ever Made

* Burke Mountain Celebrates 50 Years of Skiing

* Burke Mountain General Manager Charlie Hardiman Looks Toward the Future

* Burke is More than A Mountain – It is a Community

* Roger Damon: The History of a Skier and His Mountain

* David Gwatkin – Marketing a Mountain and the Northeast Kingdom

* CCC Developed a Park on Burke Mountain

* Every Ice Fishing Trip is Special, but Northing Compares to the Season’s First Trip

* William Scott’s Enduring Legend – Part III

* Buying a used Car

 

April 2006

 

* Prohibition in Vermont to Hit the Big Screen

* The Rise and Fall of the Prohibition of Alcohol in the United States

* Moonshine and the Morning Glass

* Outlaws, Booze, and Lawmen – A Lawman’s Daughter Remembers Prohibition

* Murder and Mayhem, Rumrunning and Romance

* Officer Harry Dickens, Patrolling the Roads of Orleans County

* Barre Rumrunner Caught with Heavy Load After Long Chase by Customs Patrol Officers

* Disappearances: A Fictional, Frolicking Account of Prohibition on the Vermont-Quebec Border

* A New Set of Clothes and a Spare Tire Courtesy of a Bootlegger: A Teetotaler Remembers Prohibition

* Vermont’s “Toughest Town” Moves to Rid Itself of Gangsters

* Rumrunner and His Car Take a Swim in the Black River

* Irasburg Author Howard Frank Mosher Inspired by Wild Surroundings

* Scuba Diver, Historian, Ecologist, and Monster Hunter – Remembering Jacques Boisvert

 

May 2006

 

* Celebrating the Birthday of the Unsung Hero Behind the Journal

* Spring Fish Run – Always an Important Time of Year for the Abenaki

* A Vermont Boy’s Dream Comes True – the Story of Elmer Darling

* About 200,000 a Year Visit Darling State Forest Park

* A Hike Up Burke Mountain in 1879

* A New Beginning – Again

* Jay Peak Pioneer (Walter Foeger) Inducted into the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame

* Reflecting on the First Glimpse of Jay Peak

* Story Telling in the Hoosier State

* Burt Porter, Poet and Musician

* Genealogy

* Battling the Enemy and Booze in World War II

* Northland Journal Awards First Annual History Scholarship

* A Crash and Broken Bones: Sweet Memories of Youth in Newport

* The Man in the Mirror

* Thanks from Chad Prue of North Troy

* Some Record Breaking Casts and Catches

 

June 2006

 

* Abenaki Gain State Recognition

* Dancing the Night Away at the International Club in Newport, Home of New England’s Largest Dance Floor

* Surviving the Bombing of the USS Bunker Hill

* Tent Camping in Island Pond at Brighton State Park

* National Geographic Launches Geotourism Program in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

* Nebizonebek – Bruswick Springs

* Slain Officer and the Men Who Honored Him Recognized in Resolution

* Father of the Jay Peak Ski Area and Beloved North Troy Resident, Harold Haynes, Passes Away

* The One That Didn’t Get Away

* Genealogy

* Out of the Loop with the New “Computereeze”

 

July 2006

 

* Conquer Almost Any Fear – Visit an Amusement Park With A Teenager This Summer

* A Vermont Native Remembers Fire, Death, and Horror at the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub

* White Hats Revisited: Memories of Burns Theater

* The Dickens Is After You: Remembering Harry Dickens

* Yes, We Do Have Bananas

* Family Doctor of an Earlier Day – Dr. A.A. Cheney

* Growing Up in Island Pond and Memories of the Cat House: Jerry Davis Remembers

* Westminster Court House

* Genealogy

* Barnet Farmer Trades Tractors for Horses to Avoid High Gas Prices

* Bandanas and Green Bananas

 

August 2006

 

* When Satire Becomes Reality

* The Boulders of Lake Willoughby

* A Magical Evening at the Boulders

* Summer Folks Come to Willoughby Lake

* Reader Reflects on the International Club

* World War II Veterans Hit the Dance Floor

* Recollections of the County Fairs

* From the Quiet Comfort of the Northeast Kingdom to the Dangerous Streets of Ramadi, Iraq

* To Be a Military Wife…

* Welcome home, Chad Prue, and all the other members of Task Force Saber

* The Town Dump: A Lost Community Institution

* Edith Selby of Derby Line: “Talks Turkey” As She Turns 90

 

September 2006

 

* What Goes Around Comes Around: The Confessions of a Skunk Trapper

* Golden Eagle Complete Wreck in Fall to Earth Near Charleston

* Edith Selby of Derby Line Donates Computerized Copies of Her Husband’s Journal to the Derby Historical Society

* Cleveland Air Service (1921-1923)

* Raymond Grimes: A Boy of the Depression

* The Grimes Family on the Move

* Archeologists: Digging into Vermont’s Past

* Newport City Fire Chief Bobby George Steps Down

* A Walk into Charleston’s Past

* Deane Wheeler Gives a Presentation and Gets a Band Reunion in Return

* From God’s Waiting Room to God’s Front Porch

* Genealogy

* Jay Peak Ski and Summer Resort Enters a New Era

* Dam the Beavers

 

October 2006

 

* Capturing the Northeast Kingdom From the Air

* A Bird’s-Eye View of the Vermont Landscape

* A Pig and a dog and a Friendship of a Lifetime

* Columbus, Potatoes and Tomatos

* Sinclair Day – Not Columbus Day

* Life in the Iron Bridge District of Island Pond

* Pop Ups and Lay Downs

* The P&H Truck Stop

* W. Arthur Simpson – “Mr. Vermont”

* The Great Bear Hunt

* Recognizing Two Humble Heroes

* Bidding farewell to Lew Shattuck, a True History Advocate

* Stretching the Truth of the Hunt

* WW I Monument in Derby Gets a New Home

* Charleston Electrician Donates Solar Light to Derby’s Monument Park

 

November 2006

 

* Harsh Reminder About What Is Really Important in Life

* Vermonters Don’t Give Up: Remembering Lyndonville in the Flood of 1927

* Newport High Football Team of 1949 Whips the Woodstock Wasps

* The Battle Between the North and the South – Newport Co-Captain Ron Gardner Reflects on a Game of a Lifetime

* Thanks to the Coach: Frank Spates Remembers the Big Game

* There Was No Doubt in John Ward Sr.’s Mind That Newport High Was Destined to Win

* Woodstock Wanted the Championship Title, But Newport High Wanted It More: Bernie Burke Reflects

* Wash Days and Little Fingers

* Albany Man Writes History of St. John of the Cross Catholic Church

* The Newport High School Football Team of 1942

* Jerry Davis: The Paperboy of Island Pond

* Dennis Beauchesne: A Vietnam Veteran Battling for all Veterans

* The Glen Road Cannon

* The Perils of Graduating from Middle Age

* Painting a Tribute to the Victims of September 11 and to America’s Veterans

* Genealogy

 

December 2006

 

* I Am the Son of Santa Claus

* Uncovering the Memories of a Forgotten Community and Its One Room Schoolhouse

* The Fish-Adams Residence on Fish Hill at Arnolds Mills

* Dam Breached to Make Way for Fish

* Remembering Emily Nelson – Newport City Historian

* The More Times Change to More They Stay the Same in the World of Education

* A Book about Our Neighbors to Our North: The Eastern Townships: In Town and Village

* Solving the Mystery of the Civil War Letter

* Memorabilia From the Baxter Post of the Grand Army of the Republic

* A Christmas Mostly for My Mother

* Slip Sliding Away On a Chicken Pie Day

* The Moose Have Come Home – Are Wolves On their Way?

* Wood Stove Brings Back Memories

* A Hundred Years

* Genealogy

* Scott Wheeler Wins His Race for the Vermont House

 

January 2007

 

* The Year 2006 in Review

* When the Night Sky Glowed With Hate

* Newspaper Weighs in on the Ku Klux Klan

* Can you help identify this photo?

* Fiery Crosses in the Green Mountains

* Potato Farmer, Pilot, and Politician: Rep. Janice Peaslee Finds Time for Flying

* Ela Bailey: A Mill Girl at Home – Part 1

* Things That Go Bump in the Night

* Ruby Remembers Life as a Mother, Teacher, and a Military Wife

* Never Be Afraid to Take a Shot

* Memorabilia from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

* Tell Me the Good News

* Genealogy

 

February 2007

 

* Recording the History of the Clyde River Fishery

* Good Fishermen Don’t Get Old, They Become Legends

* Standing On Thin Ice

* Shadow or Not

* Flatlander Fables: The Odyssey Continues

* Ella Bailey: A Mill Girl at Home – Part 2

* Vintage Cabin Fever: First Vermont Winter for Europeans

* Memories of a Kindergarten Graduation in Derby Line During the 1950s

* Booze Car Tries Runaway Stunt

* Veteran Turned Celebrity

* Making a Feather Bed

* Two Prize Bulls on the Simino Farm – a poem

* Two Silly Guys – a poem

* A New Legislator But Not a Stranger to the State House Steps

* This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land

* Genealogy

 

March 2007

 

* Celebrating Five Years of Recording the History and Voices of the Kingdom

* Lola Aiken Sends Her Congratulations

* Milking Cows, Churning Butter, and Sewing Baseballs – Rose Valley Remembers 104 Years of Living

* Rose Valley Celebrates 104 Years

* Washington’s Birthday Was a Big Day in Lyndonville

* Ella Bailey: A Mill Girl at Home – Part 3

* Mystery Photo Identified

* Woodchuck: A retelling of grandmother’s story

* Stephen Huneck’s Sally Hits the Slopes

* Flatlander Fables: The Odyssey Continues

* A Musing about the Northeast Kingdom

* Genealogy

* Excerpts from letters to the editor: Celebrating 5 Years in Business!

* Behind the Scenes at the Northland Journal

* Things I Bought That Broke

* Behind the Attic Door

 

April 2007

 

* I Survived the Valentine’s Day Blizzard with Both Ears and All My Fingers and Toes

* The Year the Black River Turned Black With Crude Oil

* Oil on the Waters of Black River

* From the “Lowest Form of Human Life” to a Career in the Gas Business – Thanks to the Portland Pipeline

* Coventry Boy Digs Up Remnants of the Oil Spill of 1952

* Where Have the Bull Frogs of the Black River Gone?

All Environmentalists, Please Stand

* Burn Off Oil Pools Along Black River

* Ella Bailey: A Mill Girl at Home – Part 4

* Grammie’s Sixty-Dollar Babies

* Running Booze

* Two Siblings Born in the Same House on Same Street, but Different Towns

* Tim de la Bruere – Working for the Native Americans of Vermont

* The Last Ride

* Jay Peak Pioneer Walter Foeger Passes Away

* A Walter Foeger Original Donated to Jay Peak

* Memories of Potton Springs Brought to Life Again

* Genealogy

 

May 2007

 

* Welcome to the Northeast Kingdom That I Love

* Long Before Refrigeration There Was the Handy Family

* Can You Identify These Photos?

* The Hand Family Comes to America

* Northland Journal to Recognize Veterans Who Served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars

* Morgan, Vermont, Home of Monk Besaw – A Man Who Makes New Things Old

* The Naming of a Man Named “Monk”

* Route 5 – The Old Indian Joe Trail

* A National Obsession – Our Lawns

* Ella Bailey: A Mill Girl at Home – Part 5

* Genealogy

* National Geographic Picks Northeast Kingdom as Top Spot for “Geotourism”

 

June 2007

 

* Livestock, Antiques, and Junk – Adventures at the Orleans Commission Sales

* Remembering the Heyday of the Family Farm through the Eyes of Ken Scott

* Pulling Kale on Uncle Milo’s Farm

* The Creamery

* The “A” in Alternative Farming is for Alpacas

* Charlie Lang and Old Horse Talk

* Poultry Culling Demonstration Saturday

* I tried to plan Raspberries but I Got a Daughter Instead

* Gambrel- Roofed Barn is Equipped Fully for Profitable Operation

* This Milk Problem: Why and Where of Vermont Dairy Farming

* Vermont Agriculture Today

* The Widow of U.S. Senator George Aiken Embers Her Husband’s Love of Farmers

* 300 Hear Governor Aiken, McGraw and Tator O.K. Milk, Inc.

* Genealogy

* Daybreak – The Most Magical Time of Day For Me and For Farmers

* Fly Time Approaches

* Vermont Couple Live Out Farm Dream on the Blogosphere

* Triple Calves, 14- Pig Litter: Barton Domestic Animal Prolific This Spring

 

July 2007

 

* The Times They Are A-Chagin’ on the Vermont-Quebec Border

* Driving Harley

* In Search of Metal- Two Treasure Hunters Share Their Finds

* Canary on the Telephone

* Isaac Fletcher, USCC Delegate in the Civil War

* Growing Up in an International Community in the 1920s and ‘30s – Part 1

* Mutt

* Busy Bob Walker

* Abuse Yourself – It’s Summer

* Views from the Shadows of the Jay of the Jay Peak Ski Summer Resort

* Harold “Ace” Ackerman, One of Vermont’s State Police Troopers, Remembers Years of Service

 

September 2007

 

* Happiness Doesn’t Come in a Wallet

* A Long Life on the Shores of Lake Memphremagog

* My favorite Memories of the Waterfront Plaza

* Tony Pomerleau Teams Up with Jay Peak Ski and Summer Resort to Build Waterfront Convention Center in Newport

* Time to Feed the Chickens

* Happy 75th Birthday, Mom (Pauline Simino Wheeler)

* A Miracle Reunites a Long Lost Family Member After 66 Years

* Growing Up in an International Community in the 1920s and ‘30s – Part 3

* On Kingdom Mountain with Howard Frank Mosher

* Doesn’t He Look Great!

 

August 2007

 

* Remembering the Days of the Big Tour Boats with Dreams of Bringing Them Back to Life

* Steaming Around Willoughby

* A New Lighthouse Rolls into Newport

* Growing Up in an International Border Community in the 1920s and ‘30s – Part 2

* The Crooked Border

* The Beloved Gravedigger of Charleston – Richard Colburn

* The Civil War Vets that I Remember

* To Dynamite “Spec” Pond

* Korean and Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Day a Huge Success

* Nellie the Horse

* A Lesson on Fish I Caught in the Kingdom

 

October 2007

 

* Molly the Beagle Passes into History

* Barton Believables: Pageant Park

* A Native Son’s Return to His Roots

* Horse Power and Horse Maneuvers

* Growing Up in an International Community in the 1920s and ’30 – part 4

* I wasn’t scared – really!

* Wheeler Family Gather for a Reunion

* Memories of Growing Up During Prohibition

* Marlene Simmons: Genealogist Par Excellence

* Genealogy

* Picking Dandelions and Remembering the Black Iron Kettle

* Spaghetti, French Fries, and Raised Doughnuts

 

November 2007

 

* A Genealogical Query Unites Two Men with Common Ancestry

* Coming of Age in Orleans, Vermont 1944-1951

* Memories of Life on the Border and the Tour Boats of Lake Memphremagog

* Francis Clark Wins Contest

* A GI’s Memories of D-Day

* Reminiscing Over the Last 91 Years

* Ancestral Roots Grounded in Farmlands of Coventry

* It Doesn’t Pay to Fish with Stolen Bait

* Have Grocery Store, Will Travel

* Growing Up on the Border in Derby Line, Vermont – Late 1940s and Early ‘50s

* Genealogy

* Remembering the Sugar Traverse

* A Hunt with Poppy

 

December 2007

 

* The Most Unique Christmas Present I Ever Gave

* My Life in Skunk Hollow

* The Family That Brought Christmas to Thousands of People in the Northeastern United States

* A World War II Nurse Gets a Letter from Home

* World War II from the Clouds

* There Was a Tavern in the Town

* My Grandfather Gets His Diploma 60 Years Late

* Flatlander Fables: Thy Odyssey Continues

* Mystery Photo

* Barton Believables: The Baby Fairs

* Genealogy

* In the Shadow of the Mountain

* Song for Winter Coming

* A Gift of Grace from Emerson

* Wise Ones in Accord

 

January 2008

 

* A Glimpse Back at 2007

* Remembering Greewood Bus Lines

* Can You Help Us Identify These Photos?

* Photo Identified!

* Derby Line’s Unofficial Mayor, Joe Queenin, Recognized by His Friends, the Counity, and Vermont’s Northland Journal

* Jim Webber and J.C. Eaton’s Peddler Wagon

* Remembering Cecil A. Broome Jr.., Sgt., Cecil A. Broome Sr., and Wayne and Eva Broome

* Bobcats Raising Havoc with Deer

* Proposed West End Park, Playground, and Parking Area

* Deep into the Icy World of Greenland: A Derby Man’s Adventure

* Genealogy

* When I Was a Barefoot Green Mountain Boy – Part 1

 

February 2008

 

* Life is Good - Words to Remember

* Mystery Photo Identified

* Over the Mountain with the Flying Farmer

* The Man Who Helped Electrify the Jay Peak Ski Area - Al Flory

* Al Flory Weighs in on Hydro and Wind Power

* When I Was a Barefoot Green Mountain Boy - Part 2

* Grant Family Proved Blood Was Thicker Than Paint

* Rare Canada Lynx Shot and Killed in Newport by Vermont Fish and Wildlife Warden

* Another Mystery Photo Identified

* My First Real Job

* Genealogy

* A Pastor’s Memories - Rev. Roger Fletcher

* My Border Memories

 

March 2008

 

* North Country Union High School Class of 1984 to Appear on TV Talk Show

* Sisters Help Identify the Faces in Mystery Photo

* Barton Believables: Balloon Ascension

* Sugaring in Albany - Can Anyone Identify the People in the Photo?

* Newport Native Helps Bring the Simpsons Movie Premiere to Vermont

* Skiing Has Been Rudi’s Life

* When I Was a Barefoot Green Mountain Boy - Part 3

* Genealogy

* Harriet F. Fisher’s Hometown Album Reissued

* Decorated Survivor of the Battle of the Bulge Passes Away - Ken Scott

* He Survived Pearl Harbor but Lost His Battle with Time

* Lions Still Guard Bank in Lyndonville

 

April 2008

 

* Lola Aiken Honored in Montpelier

* Fish and Human Tales: Memories of Life in the Kingdom

* Mother Hunt’s Dormitory for Dependable Docile Discharges Has a Kind Landlord

* Need Help Identify This Photo

* Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination - A Newport Woman Remembers

* When I was a Barefoot Green Mountain Boy - Part 4

* The Northeast Kingdom and the State Say Goodbye to Rep. Cola Hudson

* Another Photo Identified

* Horsepower in the Garage

* Genealogy

 

May 2008

 

* The Birds Are Flying the Nest

* Boxing Their Way Into the Pages of Vermont History

* Four Time Vermont & New England Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion: Tony Robitaille

* Paul Letourneau’s Sugarhouse & Dance Hall

* Lyndonville Board of Trade

* A Salute to the Veterans of World War II

* Cabin at Shadow Lake, Glover, Vermont

* When I Was a Barefoot Green Mountain Boy - Part 5

* David Clark Remembered as a Kindhearted Soul

* Congratulations Curtis and Nick

* Genealogy

* Do you Recognize These Hunters

 

June 2008

 

* Where Have All the Gardens Gone?

* Victor Daniels and His Milk Route

* Working with Horses Making a Comeback

* When I was a Barefoot Green Mountain Boy - Part 6

* Recollections and Reflections of Darling Hill

* Barton Believables: Fourth Annual Farmers Day

* There Are No Flies on Us

* Help Identify This Photo

* Genealogy

 

July 2008

 

* Don “Sleepy” McNally: From Vaudeville to Drive-In Pioneer

* Off to the Jalopy Races

* Stoddard Wins Third Time in Thrilling Jalopy Races Here - old newspaper article

* Hitchcock Wins Here - Old newspaper article

Jalopy Racing Club May Move - Old newspaper article

* G. Greenwood Wins Feature Race of Jalopy Card Here - Old newspaper article

* Mason Jalopy Winner - old newspaper article

* More Racing Photos

* Remembering George “Cubby” Smith

* Tiger Fire Company No. 1

* When I Was a Barefoot Green Mountain Boy - 8

* Growing Up in the Northeast Kingdom

* Flatlander Fables: The Odyssey Continues

* Genealogy

 

 

August 2008

 

*The Gorilla That Got My Attention – with a Hit Up Side the Head

*Pisgah Lodge at Willoughby Lake

*True Tales from Paul Houghton

*Connecting with an Ancestor – Sylvester Robinson

*The 2008 Gathering of World War II Veterans is History

*On the Home Front during World War II

*Members of the Twelve Tribes Speak at Goodrich Memorial Library

*Memories of the Island Pond Raid of 1984

*Genealogy

*The Eastern Townships: On Lake and River

 

September 2008

 

*A T-shirt to a Historical Find a a Shared House

*70th Anniversary of the Fire of 1938

*Remembering Harriet Fisher

*1950s Fair Memories

*Early Fairs in Lyndonville

*Worth Family Reunion

*The “Bulge” 35 Years Later

*Military Airplane Slams into Jay Peak in 1943

*Canadian Trainer Plane Crashed Into Side of Jay Peak – One killed, One Hurt

*Salvage Operations on Crashed Plane Now Underway

*Westfield Man Remembers an Attempted Trek to the Crash Site

*Genealogy

 

October 2008

 

*Decades of Recording People and Events of the Northeast Kingdom

*Pat Hunt – Preserving History One Article at a Time

*A Reporter’s View of Mac’s Parties

*Brian Smith of Derby – One of the Many Party Goers

*A World War II Honor Roll

*Authors Remember Harriet Fisher

*The Birth of a Novel

 

November 2008 

 

*No Alcohol Needed at the 135 Convention of the Women Christian Temperance Union

*Horace Tabor, Sliver King of the West, Has Roots in Holland, Vermont

*The Flood of 1927

*The World War II Generation Loses One of It’s Heroes – and I lose a Friend

*Civil War Monument in Derby – Oldest Community Memorial to that War in the United States

*They Mayor of Skunk Hollow

*Vermont’s Genuine Landscape

*Need Help Identifying These Photos

*Readers Identify Jalopy Racer

*Another book by Michael Hahn

*Lili the Cat Meets Her Match

*A Friendship Made and Bound by the Love of Hunting

*Genealogy

 

December 2008

 

*We Should Honor the Man Who Gave the Northeast Kingdom Its Name

*Christmas Tree for Rockefeller Center, New York

*Book About Don McNally and the Derby-Port Drive-In to Hit the Bookshelves

*The Woman Behind the Showman: Irene McNally

*My Grandparents’ Farm

*Roots into an Agricultural Past

*1864: The Civil War Comes to the Border

*Captain Quimby Makes the Ultimate Sacrifice – Part 1

*Large Crowd Turns Out to Honor Chester Carpenter in Derby

 

January 2009

 

*Reliving the Year 2008

*Boxing, Singing, and Riding the Rails Into the Pages of Newport’s History

*A Several Ton Catch on a Fly Rod

*Reader Identifies Herself in a Mystery Photo

*Memories of the Little Train on Railroad Street, North Troy, Vermont

*Captain Quimby Makes the Ultimate Sacrifice Part- 2

*The Morgan Horse and the Kingdom Connection

*Genealogy

 

February 2009

 

*Skiing the Slopes of Chamberlin Birch and Living to Tell About It

*Genealogy

*When Skiing Was Work

*Yvette Deslandes – From the Family Farm to 50 Years in Healthcare

*North Country Hospital on Schedule

*Glover Man Witness to Justice at the Nuremberg Trials

*Interesting Tale of Orleans County Boys: Three Local Boys in Mountain Infantry Together Since Enlisting

*Recognizing the Gold Star Families of Vermont

 

March 2009

 

*History Comes in All Sizes and Places

*Andy Pepin – the Last Standing Pioneer of Jay Peak

J*ay Peak’s Beginning

*Yesterday’s a Success, Future Looms Bright – by Walter Foeger

*Fallout from Mac’s Party

*A Look through a Grandmother’s Photographs

*Photo Takes 80-Year-Old Man Back to School Days

*Writer Shares His Memories

*Genealogy

 

 

 April 2009

 

*A Historical Look at the Inauguration of President Barack Obama

*Snapshot of the Inauguration of President Barack Obama

*The Many Faces of Maggie Little – the Famed Fisherwoman of Lake Memphremagog

*One Family’s Way of Helping the Needy in the 1930s and ‘40s

*Doughboys Pass through Newport

*Memories of Newport in an Earlier Time

*Tis Sugaring Time Again

*Country Roads in the Spring

*Business Was Tops in Lyndon

*Honoring the Sacrifices of Vermont’s Gold Star Families

*Remembering the Country Poet James Hayford

*Happy 18th Birthday, Emily Wheeler!

*Genealogy

 

May 2009

 

*The Richness in Kindness and Sharing

*Barton Believables – The 1908 Vermont State Champions of Barton

*St. Johnsbury Ball Club Is Impetus for New Family

*Could the Chamberlin Birch Ski Area Rise Again?

*A Doughboy from Newport Arrives in France

*Life in Derby during the 1950s and 1960s on the Seat of a Bike

*Letter and Memories from One Happy Reader – Elaine (Prue) Daniels

*A Day to Celebrate the Northeast Kingdom

*My Speech on the Floor of the House of Representatives

*Genealogy

 

June 2009

 

*Hot Dogs and Love at Jay’s Snack Bar

*Let’s Go to Jay’s: First Trip

*A Doughboy from Newport in a Hospital in France

*The Skull and Bones Club of Newport High

*Uncrushed Honor – Francis Whitcomb

*A Letter from Australia

*Flora Temple, Harness Trot 2:19-3/4

*Childhood – a poem

*Genealogy

 

 

July 2009

 

*I’ve Lived Here Almost Since the Beginning of Time

*Henry Leland – the Man Behind Cadillac and Lincoln

*Gloria May Stoddard: the Author Who Told Vermont about One of Its Own Sons – Henry Leland

*A Segment from Gloria May Stoddard’s Book about Henry Leland

*The Vermont-Quebec Border: Life on the Line

*The Raid and Retreat of Rogers’ Rangers

*A Day on the Jay with Gramp

*Rocheleau’s Grocery Store

*Tribute to Vermont’s Gold Star Event is Now History

*Thank You to the Contributors Who Took Part in the Tribute to Gold Star Families

*Genealogy

 

August 2009

 

*Northeast Kingdom Has Connection to At Least Three Past Supreme Court Justices

*The Last Ride of the Lady of the Lake

*If Only a Building Could Talk: A Look Back at the History of the Union House in Glover

*Drew’s Zoo and Life on the Barton –Glover Line during the 1920s and 1930s

*Drew’s Zoo Recorded in the Pages of Glover’s History

*Craftsbury Cartoonist Takes a Lighter Look at Life in the Northeast Kingdom

*Let’s Go to Jay’s: Second Trip

*Forever – a poem by Elaine (Prue) Daniels

*Andrea Webster – Newest Member of the Northland Journal Team

*Genealogy

 

 

 September 2009

 

*Rural Vermonters were Green Before Green was Cool

*Up, Up and Away with Cecil Wright and His Flying Machines

*Newport’s Link to the Champlain Celebration of 1909

*An Automotive History

*I won’t be Home for Christmas – A Book Review

*Images of Vermont: The Story of Richard Petit and Carlyle Goodrich, Stereopticon Photographer

*Let’s Go to Jay’s: Third Trip

*One Hundred Years Old but Not Too Old to Make Music

*Genealogy

 

October 2009

 

*We are Americ – ‘can’, not Ameri-can’t’”

*Life and Work at Space Research

*The Life and Death of a Man Named Gerald Bull – the Man Who Made the Supergun

*The Era of Space Research Corporation

*Space Research Transformed into Contemporary American Fiction by Wheelock Author

*St. Mary Star of the Sea Church Celebrates 100 Years – 1909-2009

*Mom’s Story – Growing Up in Island Pond

*A Long Road from Island Pond to the Pentagon

 

November 2009

 

*Almost Bagged by a Buck

*Runaway Locomotive

Railroaded

*Let’s Go to Jay’s: Fourth Trip

*Reverend Luther Leland: Missionary Pioneer in the Northeast Kingdom

*Winter is Coming – Again

*A Letter of Thanks

*Northeast Kingdom Hunting Stories Have Classic Flavor All Their Own

*Annual Epidemic Here: Hunting Fever

*It’s a Tradition, My Deer

*Genealogy

* Like a Leaf Peeper and Enjoying the Views

*More Thanks Than Ever

 

December 2009

 

*Bell Hop and Bouncer at the Newport House

*The History of the Newport House

*Newport Police Chief Killed at the Newport House

*Main Street Newport 1952 – As I Remember

*Camp Duncan – Recollections from the 1930s

*A Bit of History of Camp Duncan

*Barton Cadamey and Graded School – A Village Icon Enters Its Second Century

*The Old Schoolhouse

*One-Room School Shapes a Family’s History

*A New Season

*Genealogy

*Faith at Christmas

*Senator Vince Illuzzi Helps Preserve the Memory of Vermonter Turned U.S. President Calvin Coolidge

*Memento from Newport High’s Class of 1946 Found in an Unlikly Place

 

January 2010

 

*Good Times and Bad Times – 2009 in Review

*A Journey Back to Life on the Farm with Roy Ingalls of Irasburg: Part 1

*Roy and His Poker Games as Told by “The Quiet One”

*History Channel Comes to Derby Line

*The Spanish Influenza of 1918 Changed One Family’s Life Forever

*The Art of Chair Caning

*Let’s Go to Jay’s: Fifth Trip

*Parallels through Time

*Genealogy

*Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom Turns 60 Years Old

 

 

February 2010

 

*From Horse and Buggy to Space Ships

*Long Before There was the Jay Peak Ski Area, the Community of Jay had Helen Morse

*Letter Provides Look into the History of the Community of Jay

*A Brief History of the Community of Jay, Vermont

*Big News from Jay Peak – 1956

*A Journey Back to Life on the Farm with Roy Ingalls of Irasburg: Part 2

*Genealogy

*Cartoonist Turns His Passion Into a Book

*Problems of Plowed Roads

*Jay Peak in 2009 pictorial

*Article Sparks Memories

 

March 2010

 

*An Earthquake that Rocked the World

*“We Are All Safe!” : A Newport Native Living in Haiti Writes Home after the Earthquake

*The History of Runaway Pond

*Save the Dates: June 4-6,2010: Runaway Pond Bicentennial Celebration in Glover

*A Journey Back to Life on the Farm with Roy Ingalls of Irasburg: Part 3

*Decades in a Sewer , Followed by a Happy Reunion

*Words of Thanks for Getting Her Ring Back More than 60 Years Later

*Let’s Go to Jay’s: Sixth Trip

*The Mystery of the Silver statue: One Author’s Journey

*The Mystery of the Silver Statue

*Old Timey

 

 

 April 2010

 

*Don’ t Judge a Book by Its Cover, or These Two Men by Their Appearance

 *The Grizzly Adams of Albany and a Moose Named Pete

*Doug Nelson Stands His Ground

*The Struggle to Save Pete Put into a Poem and a Music Video

*Memories, Moonshine, and a Bear

*Where and What is Chiefo?

*Comrades in War, Friends in Peace, Proud Veterans Forever!

*Two Local Haitian American Nurses Talk about Life in Haiti

*Tree Planks Become an Heirloom

*Frog in the Bucket

*Genealogy

*Mills D. Andross: Vermont’s Defender of the Alamo

 

 

May 2010

 

 *Finding Closure 65 Years After the End of World War II

*If Anybody Can Catch a Salmon in a Mud Puddle, Dan Can

*Help Us Put Names to These Fishermen of the Clyde

*Funny People, Things, and Places – Trials and Tribulations of an On-the-Road Repairman

*Virginia Downs of Lyndonville Discusses Her Professional Life

*Going to War with Milkweeds from Vermont

*Locate Milkweed Stands Show for Fall Use

*Heaven at 4 p.m.

*Finding Father

*Reader Remembers Dave Kennett of Jay

*Jay Man Commended By Vermont Governor

*The Wagon Wheel (poem)

*Genealogy

*The History of Jay Peak Ski and Summer Resort to Come to Life in a Book

* Reader Recognizes her Father-in-law in a Photo

*Raymond Walter Sanville Died Fighting in World War II

 

 

 June 2010

 

 *Vermont’s Last Catamount and a Rare Canadian Lynx with Something in Common – Death by a Bullet

 *Remembering the Canadian Gateway Airport in Derby

*Parachute Jumper at Derby Meet Rips Door from Plane, Escapes Death by Miracle

*Leaps from Plane, Loses Life in Pond

*Search for Charles Lindbergh’s Kidnapped Son Comes to Vermont

*Ellery Webster, Union POW – Part 1

*Let’s Go to Jay’s: Seventh Trip

*Snapshots of History in Craftsbury Schools

*Genealogy

*A Camel is a Man’s Best Friend

 

July 2010

 

*One Hundred Issues and Still Going Strong

*The Fosters – Bringing Tourism, Wealth and Golfers to Derby

*The Canadian Gateway Airport (a pictorial)

*Pete the Moose Has Been Saved from the Bullet!

*Fred Marshall, a Man for All Seasons

*Armed Forces Day Brings Healing for Two Families

*Ellery Webster, Union POW – Part Two

*The Haskell Free Library and Opera House: A Century of History

*Barton Believables: Reflections of Runaway Pond

 

August 2010

 

*Looking for Stories of Life on the Vermont-Quebec Border Before and After the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

*Percy Daniels: “Murder & Mayhem, Rum-running and Romance” – Part 1

*Guarding the Border – A Team Effort

*Take Part in History and Come to Derby’s Veterans Park on August 21

*The Ice Haus Indoor Ice Rink is Open for Business

*Curtis Wheeler Comes in 4th in the Vermont City Marathon

*Ellery Webster, Union POW – Part Three

*My Memories of Growing Up in Chiefo

*Facebook Helping Connect People with their Ancestors

*Wheeler’s Farewell Speech to the Vermont House of Representatives

*Journey Back in Time to the Gateway International Airport (a letter)

*Matching Wits with a Woodchuck

*Glover Recognizes the 200th Year of Runaway Pond

*Genealogy

 

September 2010

 

*Yes, Sir, That is What I said, I’m Going Monster Hunting

*Living the American Dream and Protecting the U.S. Border

*The History of the U.S. Border Patrol

*Horses and Buggies, Silent Movies, and Rumrunners: 92 Years of Life on the Vermont-Quebec Border Part 1

*Percy Daniels: “Murder & Mayhem, Rum-running & Romance” – Part 2

*A Man Who Made a Difference .. Topsham Minister’s Efforts in the Abolitionist Movement and *Underground Railroad

*The Vietnam War 35 Years Later

*Genealogy

 

October 2010

 

*Saving History with Help of the Worldwide Web

*Horror on the Rails: A Daughter Remembers Her Lost Father

*Train Wreck in Newbury – 4 killed

*News of the Newbury Rail Disaster Spread Quickly

*My Moose Hunt

*Moose Are No Strangers to Vermont

*Horse and Buggies, Silent Movies, and Rumrunners: 92 Years of Life on the Vermont – Quebec Border

*This Old Schoolhouse

*I Love Root Canals – Yes, You Read that Right!

*Genealogy

*War Hits the Northeast Kingdom Hard Twice This Summer

*Remembering the Veterans from Derby Who Served Their Country

 

November 2010

 

*Senator Bernie Sanders Thanks an American Hero

*To Proud for the Poor Farm: A Mother Leads Her Children Through the Great Depression

*Fatal Accident at Newport Center

*Horses and Buggies, Silent Movies, and Rumrunners: 92 Years of Life on the VT/Quebec Border Pt. 3

*The Mysterious Beebe Families of Beebe, Vermont-Quebec

*Little Schoolhouse in the Kingdom: First Grade at the West Charleston School

*Orleans County Loses a Medical Legend

 

December 2010

 

*Thank You, Guv, For Your Years of Service

*Gentleman Jim, the Unflappable Governor, Retires

*Words of Prasise About the Governor

*Tribute to Governor Jim Douglas from Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie

*Sled Dogs and Winter Carnival in North Troy - 1941

*Horse and Buggies, Silent Movies, and Rumruners: 92 Years of Life on the VT - Quebec Border - Pt. 4

*Peacham Civil War POW Made His Mark by Writing about Andersville Prison Experiences

*Always Close the Gate Behind You - A Book You Won't Be Able to Put Down

*Derby Native Nick Wheeler Runs Away With Maine Half Marathon Title

*Mom's Kitchen

*Let's Go to Jay's: Eighth Trip

*Reader Remembers the Derby Gateway Airport

 

 

January 2011

 

*The Wonders and Horrors in 2010

*Flying Like a Bird Off of One Big Ski Jump in North Troy

*Photographing the Winter Carnival

*The Carnival Site Today

*Rembering Ski Jumping in Newport

*West School Boy Wins Jumping Contest in Meet

*Bean vs. Darling: The Race of the Season!

*One Woman's Mission to Protect the United States During World War II

*A Moose Hunt of a Lifetime for Two Young Moose Hunters

*Looking Back On My Marriage 25 Years Age

*Genealogy

*Memories of Performing with the Vermont Symphony Orcestra 

*One Gutsy Deer

 

 

February 2011

 

*Looking for Stories Written by Readers

*From Mild-Mannered Pharmacst to Freedom Fighter or Rabble-Rouser --- Part 1

*A Tribute to Dennis Taylor

*In Search of Information about a Boat Bulder

*Neither Wind, nor Snow, nor..........

*The Story of Gilpin Mountian in Northern Vermont

*The Guy with a Fly in His Ear

*Nanny's Home Remedy Bag

*St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church Honors Veterans

*A Look Into the Mind and Dreams of Walter Foeger - A Ski Pioneer

*Genealogy 

*Governor James Douglas Immortalzed in Painting

*Rare Color of Wild Turkeys Are Drawing Stares and Questions

 

 

 

March 2011

 

 

*Sap, Smoke, and Tree Bark - All You Need for Vermont Liquid Gold

*A Marriage That Gave Birth to Six Children and Thousands of Gallons of Maple Syrup

*This issue also has several maple recipes

*Vermont: The United State's Largest Producer of Maple Syrup

*The History of Bil's Lakeshore Maples

*Sweet Memories

*Sugar-on-Snow - The Secret Joy of a Crazy Vermonter

*Sugaring Time in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom

*A Snapshot of the History of Maple Grove Farms

*Recollections of the Old Days

*There's Nothing Like the Smell of Boiling Sap

*Sugaring Through the Eyes of J.N. Webster

*From Mild-Mannered Pharmacist to Freedom Fighter or Rabble-Rouser: Part 2

*Kingdom Ramble

*Genealogy 

 

 

April 2011

 

*Ten Years After I Refused to Give Up On a Dream

*A Letter from Gov. Shumlin

*A Letter from Senator Sanders

*Message from Tom Salmon

*Northland Journal Honored

*Words of Praise from Our Reader On our 10th Birthday/Anniversary

*January Issue Brings Back Memories of a Lost Brother

*Valentines 70-Plus Years and Counting

*Death of a Vermont Pioneer Woman in the West

*The Western Blizzard

*Otis Tye Family

*Ada's Colorful Father

*The Hereford Mountain Bear

*Thoughts on the Food Chain

*Thank You to the Northland Journal Dream Team

*Rallying Around a Green Mountain 

*Genealogy

*Ski Jumping Article Brings Back Memories for a Reader

 

 May 2011

*Disaster in Japan: Former Foes Concerned for the People of the Island Nation

*Hunting Moose Armed with a Camera

*Combat: Fighting a War That Wasn’t His to Fight

*Yutaka Minakuchi: The Story of a Japanese Minister Living in Glover during World War II – Part 1

*Tales from the Border

*Walking On the Crust in Winter

*My Hilltop Home

*Deep Rooted in Spring

*Let’s Go to Jay’s – Ninth Trip

 

May 2011

 

*Disaster in Japan: Former Foes Concerned for the People of the Island Nation

*Hunting Moose Armed with a Camera

*Combat: Fighting a War That Wasn’t His to Fight

*Yutaka Minakuchi: The Story of a Japanese Minister Living in Glover during World War II – Part 1

*Tales from the Border

*Walking On the Crust in Winter

*My Hilltop Home

*Deep Rooted in Spring

*Let’s Go to Jay’s – Ninth Trip

 

June 2011

*The Beginning of the Civil War - 150 Years Later

*Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Vermonters in the Civil War

*To Preserve the Union

*Peacham Civil War Sergeant Tells His Story Through Diaries and Letters

*The Gettysburg Address

*Combat: Fighting a War That Wasn't His to Fight-Part 2

*Yutaka Minakuchi: The Story of a Japanese Minister Living in Glover; Vermont, During WW II - pt 2

*A Tale of Toilet Tanks and Patriotism: A Story About Barton, VT

*Honoring the Civil War Veterans of Canaan, Vermont

*Genealogy    

 

July 2011

*My Family's Role in Ridding the Region of the Ice Age

*Sarah (Ames) Dumas: Telling the History of Orleans County Through Photographs

*A Brief History of Orleans County

*Combat: Fighting a War That Wasn't His to Fight - Part 3

*Event to Honor the Veterans of World War II

*Brigadier General Gustavus Loomis: A Man of Faith and War

*Yutaka Minakuchi: The Story of a Japanese Minister Living in Glover; Vermont, During WW II - pt 3

*Plans for World's Largest Cadillac Parade in Barton

*Warebrook - Making Music for 20 Years

*It Would Knock Down a Horse - A story about horseradish

*Cowboys and Indians

*Genealogy

 

August 2011

*The Call of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom

*The Old Stone House: Alexander Twilight's Dream Continues

*Visit with a 96-Year-Old Yankees Fan

*Combat: Fighting a War That Wasn't His to Fight - Part 4

*Yutaka Minakuchi: The Story of a Japanese Minister Living in Glover; Vermont, During WW II - pt 4

*Letter Writer Remembers the Minakuchis of Glover, Vermont

*A Taste of New Sugar: The Story about William Scott, the Sleeping Sentinel

*A Memorial to My Brother Donald Dean

*Making Eye Contact: One Man's Time at the Nuremburg Trials

*Genealogy

 

September 2011

*Terror from the Skies - Ten Years Later

*Facebook Fans of VT's Northland Journal Reflect on Sept. 11, 2001

*A Mixed-Up Night on Jay Peak

*Back In Time: The Story of "The Mountain Maid"

*The Pickel Family and "The Mountain Maid"

*Rebel Officer's Wife Aided Vermont Officer

*Yutaka Minakuchi: The Story of a Japanese Minister Living in Glover; Vermont, During WW II - pt 5

*Genealogy

*Combat: Fighting a War That Wasn't His to Fight - Part 5

*Irish Immigrants Made Their Mark in the Northeast Kingdom

*High Atop Vermont's Northeast Kingdom

 

October 2011

*Recording the Stories of World War II

*Junk Yard Racers: Remembering the Can-Am Speedway

*The World War II Gathering is Now History

*Combat: Fighting a War That Wasn't His to Fight - Part 6

*Yutaka Minakuchi: The Story of a Japanese Minister Living in Glover; Vermont, During WW II - pt 6

*The Fight that Never Was: The Civil War Skirmish at Lake Memphremagog

*Let's Go To Jay's - 10th Trip

*Barton, Vermont, Sets a Cadillac Parade World Record


 

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