Discover Norwich 2024
norwichhistory2025-02-17T14:07:23-07:00February 1: Tales from the Schoolhouses with Wendy Thompson and Cam Cross, former teachers at Marion Cross. Did you know that at one time Norwich [...]
The Weather Diaries: November
norwichhistory2023-12-01T10:04:19-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart… For Ebenezer, November brought the return of cold weather, sleighs (and sleigh accidents), and family visits. Winter preparations included butchering, cutting wood, and [...]
The Weather Diaries: October
norwichhistory2023-11-03T11:55:31-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart... For Ebenezer, October brought cooler weather and the final harvest of corn, potatoes, beets, parsnips, turnips, carrots, and pumpkins. It was a very full cellar. [...]
The Weather Diaries: August
norwichhistory2023-10-05T08:08:51-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart… Ebenezer Brown, 1873 2 Hot sunny day…Charles worked for G.M. Slack. I hoed the sweet corn & worked in [...]
The Weather Diaries: September
norwichhistory2023-11-03T11:56:32-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart... September 2023 brought the first frost, rains, and warm days. The Brown family finished their haying and got in their wheat and oats. Family arrived [...]
The Weather Diaries: July
norwichhistory2023-08-01T11:05:06-07:00Two Diaries, 150 years apart... Vermont Journal, July 5, 1873 July was all about haying. Ebenezer's son, Charles, had nine lots filled with hay to mow, rake, load into [...]
The Weather Diaries: June
norwichhistory2023-06-20T07:43:02-07:00Two Diaries, 150 years apart... This month's post only features 1873. It was a busy time on Ebenezer's farm. They got the wheat field planted which involved plowing, [...]
The Weather Diaries: May
norwichhistory2023-06-02T11:33:03-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart… In May 1873, the work of the farm was focused on preparing the fields and mending fence. Plowing the fields generated lots of rock [...]
2023 Exhibit: Becoming Norwich
norwichhistory2025-02-06T08:37:47-07:00Norwich Historical Society has collaborated with cartoonist, Emily Zea, to publish a series of illustrated histories about Norwich. These histories feature Norwich’s early years, stories of our rivers and [...]
The Weather Diaries: April
norwichhistory2023-04-28T11:28:06-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart...April in 1873 began with so much snow that the oxen couldn't break a road to the sugarbush. It was a month of sugaring and the [...]