GREENWOOD During the time when Halloween punctures the fall season it is common for tales of ghosts, witches and other supernatural legends to be dusted off and retold. Oxford Hills is no different and one community history Facebook page, Greenwood as it Was, offers them up, along with other stories, ephemera and photos from […]
(The conclusion of “Bethel’s canned corn industry”.) BETHEL A kernel of Bethel’s history was sown in today’s Modern Barn at 19 Summer Street. In the building that is now home to the upscale restaurant there was once a thriving corn canning factory that kept Bethel’s farmers busy and prosperous from 1880 until 1926. Sardines […]
BETHEL “A Lecture was given Friday evening of last week at Pattee’s Hall by Mrs. Frances W. Harper, a colored lady.” starts the news item in the Oxford Democrat newspaper on Feb. 23, 1866, less than a year following the end of the Civil War. And continues with a zinger: “Many a man of […]