“Is that the new teacher?” Children and adults whispered the question as Chester Beers, six feet four and one-half inches tall, stepped into the Lumberland Congregational Church, on Sunday, November 29, 1868. Chester, age twenty-six, was a farmer from Walton, … Continue reading
I went to school at home until 1861. Then for two or three years I attended at Shohola and Barryville. My teachers were Miss Ellen Beakey, George and Albert Stage, George Dubois of Bethel, Harriet Leavenworth, George Egbert Mapes and … Continue reading
The next few posts will be from my book Farewell to Eldred. The Introduction: Farewell to Eldred resumes the narrative of Echo Hill and Mountain Grove, in the year 1920. Over a hundred years have passed since Charles Mortimer (Mort) … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe this Halfway Brook blog will be ten years old in September. Here is a post from 2009, with an image I recently found on Library of Congress. In 1800, Lumberland (then two years old), had a … Continue reading
Terrible cold* blanketed the Northern Hemisphere with wintry weather in the summer of 1816. The notorious cold destroyed most of the crops in the Town of Lumberland, New York. Only rye, potatoes, and onions grew. Not even a blade of … Continue reading
