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The Life Of A Mill Worker

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by Bea Peterson

On Sunday evening, October 4, residents of Wood Park and Woodbridge Heights had an opportunity to step back in time with Phyllis Chapman. Chapman, in period dress, has been portraying historic figures for 16 years, starting at the Bennington Museum. Sunday she appeared as Lucy Larcom, a nineteenth century textile mill worker, author, poet and teacher. According to Chapman Lucy was the second youngest of eight children whose widowed mother came to Lowell, MA, with her younger children to supervise a boarding house for mill workers. Lucy went to school at first but began working at the textile mill in 1837, at age 11, to help support the family.

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The Trial Of Whiting Sweeting Of Stephentown – July 1791

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by David Flint

Cries of “Appeal! Appeal!” and “Collusion of witnesses!” erupted from the audience following the re-enactment of the trial of Whiting Sweeting at the Stephentown Heritage Center last Monday evening.

Whiting Sweeting of Stephentown, son of a prominent local doctor, was convicted of murder in July of 1791 and was later hanged in Albany. [Read more…] about The Trial Of Whiting Sweeting Of Stephentown – July 1791

HACA Prepares For Holiday Food Distribution

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$50 Fills A Basket

Higher prices, reductions in Food Stamp allocations and fewer cash donations could make for skimpy Holiday food baskets this year, according to HACA Director Dianne Hosterman. The organization has distributed free baskets of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner ingredients to income eligible Hoosick area residents for the past 35 years. [Read more…] about HACA Prepares For Holiday Food Distribution

BEHOLD! New Lebanon Columbus Day Weekend Activities

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submitted by Ed Bride 

BEHOLD! New Lebanon is a new type of living museum that celebrates and explores contemporary rural American life. Over the course of four weekends between Labor Day and early November, more than 50 country guides invite visitors into their homes and work spaces, where they practice cooking, farming, cattle raising, automobile racing and mechanics, furniture-making, and much more. The guides are not costumed docents recalling old-world skills, they are actual townspeople.

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Scott A. Westervelt

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Grafton – Scott A. Westervelt, 57, passed away on September 30, 2014, at his residence on Fox Hollow Road in Grafton, NY. He had resided there with his wife, Denise (Henson) Westervelt.

Born on July 12, 1957, in Yonkers, NY, Scott was the son of Theodore and Elaine (Bresnahan) Westervelt. He was a truck driver working out of Teamster Union 456 in Westchester, NY.

Survivors, other than his wife and parents, include his daughter, Danielle Westervelt of Bennington, VT, his sons, Scott Westervelt of Brooklyn, NY, and Jonathan Westervelt and Theodore Westervelt, both of Petersburgh, NY, and two grandchildren, Aidan Forrest and Hunter Westervelt.

A Memorial service was held on Monday, October 6, at 8 pm from the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, NY. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. Relatives and friends called at the funeral home on Monday evening from 6 pm until the start of the service.

Pumpkinpalooza 6 – Very Special For Hoosick Falls

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by Bea Peterson

The fog hadn’t lifted Saturday morning, September 27, when activities were going full swing in Hoosick Falls. Tractors were rumbling into Wood Park, volunteers were signing up folks and getting the roadway ready for the Rolf Max Sternberg 5k Race and Girl Scouts and leaders were busy at the Immaculate Conception Church cooking pancakes for the crowd to come. And that was all before 8 am!

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