Soldier’s Mail: Heading off to France
Jeff Brand2020-10-14T09:56:38-07:00by Lauren Pidgeon Before heading off to France there were a few chores to do. At the top of Garey's list was getting his picture taken and making a list [...]
Soldier’s Mail
Jeff Brand2020-10-14T09:47:01-07:00About the Project James Eiler, Lauren Pidgeon and Hank Trimble are Hanover High students who worked at home throughout the spring, transcribing letters written by Garey Waterman home to his [...]
Mary Slack’s World: The Diary of Mary Slack
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:09:27-07:00Meet Lauren Pidgeon, a Hanover High student from Norwich who is interested in our community’s history. She is exploring the world of Mary Slack, a 15-year-old schoolgirl who kept a [...]
Mary’s Sibling’s World
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:09:27-07:00Mary writes about many family members in her diary. It became clear that not all of her siblings were living at home. The 1860 census shows that the Slacks were [...]
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy….and Mary
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:09:28-07:00Have you read Little Women? Louisa May Alcott published it over the course of 1868 and 1869, just three years after Mary kept her diary! Little Women is a story [...]
Schoolgirl Romance
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:09:28-07:00As a teenage girl in 1865, Mary's days at school were coming to an end. As I wrote in my last post, most girls Mary's age were heading to the [...]
After the Diary
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:09:29-07:00When we last left Mary, she was deeply upset over her father's punishment which forbid James and Mary from ever seeing each other again. Although Mary ended her diary after [...]
Vietnam Veteran Interviews
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:09:31-07:00In winter 2018-2019 Marion Cross 6th graders interviewed six local Vietnam veterans who shared their stories of courage, determination, duty, and empathy. The Vietnam Memorial outside Tracy Hall honors the [...]
Digitizing the Albert Nye Diary
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:01-07:00Ella Lubell joined us as a volunteer this summer to transcribe and research the diary of Albert B. Nye. She wrote a series of blog posts to share her research [...]
Quilt Stories
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:17-07:00In 1976 the Norwich Women's Club members pieced a quilt in recognition of the country's bicentennial. Each week this fall we will be sharing photographs and stories related to the quilt [...]