Weeks Gone By
The Hardwick Gazette, Thursday, March 12, 1925
A Challenge. A team of basketball players composed of the employees of the Woodbury Granite Company, wish in this way to challenge the winners of the Merchants-Clerks game, which was won by the former, to a game to be played in the near future. The W. G.C. boys guarantee to[Read More…]
A Most Harmonious Town Meeting
Important Measures Passed Without Opposition, New Bridge to be Erected, Tax Less Than Last Year. HARDWICK, Thursday, March 5, 1925 — When Moderator, John E. Hancock, Sr., called the annual town meeting to order at ten o’clock Tuesday forenoon, there were just forty people in the building, most of them[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By: Drive Through Big Storm to Victory, Thursday, Feb. 5, 1925
Snow Does Not Prevent H.A. from Storming C.A. Stronghold and Winning CRAFTSBURY – The biggest and most severe snowstorm in six years did not prevent the H.A. [Hardwick Academy] basketeers, with “Bill” Gallagher acting as coach in the absence of E.J. Tiffany, and “Duffy” Lewis, whom Craftsbury selected to referee[Read More…]
From The Hardwick Gazette, January 29, 1925
Factory in Lower Cabot Village Goes Up in Flames CABOT – One of the old landmarks, the old Haines Woolen factory, burned between eight and nine o’clock Tuesday morning. The factory was used as a shop for making butter boxes and was owned by Harry Clark and gave employment to[Read More…]
How 1975 Sparked the Vermont of Today
VERMONT – Fifty years ago, Interstate 91 was still under construction, Bernie Sanders couldn’t win an election and Ben & Jerry had yet to split the $5 tuition for a correspondence course in ice cream making. Then everything changed. When 82-year-old George Aiken retired to his Putney home in 1975 after[Read More…]
100 Years Ago This Week, January 22, 1925
The terrible cold snap of Sunday night and Monday morning caused another hot water front accident, in which the lady of the house had a miraculous escape from almost certain death. When Mrs. Norman Michaud started the fire in her kitchen stove Monday morning there was an extra nice bed[Read More…]
The Ku Klux Klan In and Near Hardwick
HARDWICK – Vermont and Hardwick were not entirely outside the sphere of influence of the Ku Klux Klan, but the organization appears not to have gained any significant foothold by its efforts. More than a dozen references appear to the Ku Klux Klan in The Hardwick Gazette in 1924 alone.[Read More…]
Lamoille Valley Creamery Ad, January 22, 1925
The Hardwick Gazette 100 Years Ago
Thursday, November 27, 1924 The Hardwick Gazette published an eight-page broadsheet exactly 100 years to the day before this current issue, on a Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. The publisher’s editorial from that issue follows, giving us a taste of life in that era. What follows that are notes, called[Read More…]
Trains Affected Growth of East Hardwick, Greensboro Bend
EAST HARDWICK — At the annual meeting of the East Hardwick Neighborhood Organization, neighbors gathered on October 16, at the Grange Hall to hear presentations about the history of the railroad and how it affected the growth of the small neighboring villages of East Hardwick and Greensboro Bend. The talks[Read More…]
Greatwood and Goddard College: Legacy of Architectural Innovation
PLAINFIELD – Mansions and estates fascinate me, perhaps because there are multiple stories behind them. There’s the story of the families who built them, the story of the architects who designed them, and often what the late radio broadcaster, Paul Harvey, would have called “the rest of the story” or[Read More…]
