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If you know any of the history of your particular piece of Wendell, please share it here! Or, maybe you're unsure of actual "history," but you've heard stories about people who lived there before you. Such accounts will contribute greatly to our collective understanding of our town.

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Posting Made Easy

With thanks to Brandon Tarbox, the posting problem is solved. Here's what to do:
at the top of the page where it says "Email address," fill in your email address and click on "Submit." You will immediately get an email, open it and follow the easy directions. Then go back to the blog to the post you want to comment on and click on either "No comments" or "1 (or more) comment." A screen will come up on which you can make your post.

                    Video of 7-1-2015 Book Release/Reading at Wendell Free Library

Laurel Facey arranged for our local TV station (MCTV) to videotape the reading and short power point presentation I did at the Wendell Library on July 1. For the many people who have said they wished they had been able to attend, I am pleased to announce that you can watch the video by going to montaguetv.org and clicking on the link that says "latest MCTV videos."  The video will also be available at the Wendell Library in a few weeks (Wendell has to send it out to be catalogued which, apparently, takes a while).

 

This morning's scrounging around for history yielded only this '38 Chevy (so I'm told) truck in the woods off Locke's Village Road.

ERRATA

To my dismay, I neglected to correct some mistakes in the book before it went off to the printer. Here are the errors I have found so far:

Acknowledgments: Marianne (not Mary Ann) Sundell

Page 8: The colonial wars, often known collectively as the French and Indian Wars, were individually named after reigning English monarchs at the time of each conflict except for King Philip's War (1675-1678); King Philip was the name adopted by the Native American leader Metacomet, in memory of the friendly relationship his father had had with the Mayflower Pilgrims.

Page 110: In the italicized account of the steam sawmill explosion, the bracketed phrase "probably at south end of Wickett Pond" should be deleted. Different newspaper articles about the accident suggest that it occurred somewhere in the vicinity of the State Forest headquarters on Montague Road.

Page 137: Elizabeth Peirce (not Pierce)

Page 162: Daniel Edwin Ball died in Charleston, SC (not Charlestown)

Page 165: I say "in 2014, the town still complies with the conditions of Mr. Phelp's gift." It should read "now, after a lapse of many decades, the town is once again complying with Mr. Phelps's gift."

I apologize for these mistakes.

          



       New History Book Makes a Splash!

Wendell's own Sally Stuffin, Jim Thornley and Rosie Heidkamp take a moment out from their busy schedules to read about the lives of some of Wendell's early settlers.

BOOK BY TWO WENDELL AUTHORS RELEASED ON JULY 1, 2015

Pam Richardson is a current resident of Wendell and her co-author, Thomas Sawin, born 140 years before Richardson, lived in Wendell for most of the 19th century. Sawin compiled detailed notes - including maps and interviews - for a history of Wendell, but he was never able to get them into print, saying that the people of Wendell were "too few, too poor, and too illiterate to ever pay for publication." In an unusual collaboration, Sawin and Richardson have combined their shared passion for local history and genealogy and produced the first written history of the town of Wendell from its beginning in 1752 up to 1900.

To purchase a book, contact Pam at stoneoak2003@yahoo.com. Price: $20