There are many historic buildings lining Norwich’s Main Street, reflecting different eras of the past as well as the specific families who have lived and worked in them. The 1869 [...]
It is always fun to open up the mailbox and find a postcard- a snapshot of another place, a memory we can hold in our hands. However, while few of [...]
Last week, while digitizing the Elm Street photographs, I came across this image of the Reverend Nathan Round Nichols and his family playing a game of croquet on the lawn of their [...]
About a hundred years ago, a photographer, whose shadow can be seen in some of these images, captured scenes of daily life on the Bragg Farm, owned by the family [...]
As I started to scan the Norwich Historical Society’s collection of street scenes, the names of streets I looked through were mostly familiar- Beaver Meadow, Bragg Hill, Union Village, Hazen... [...]
June 22, 2024 [raindate, Juen 23] 11am - 3pm This garden designed by Bill Noble is on the tour. Explore three beautiful properties, all [...]
Hebard House, Willey Hill Road, Norwich, VT Collection of Jane Ackerman by Jane Benson Ackerman tea-colored photograph: small yard, two folk she stout, he bent clapboard cape, shutters skewed [...]
by Zara Sarah Drew Reeves Jay and Deb Van Arman Photograph by Chad Finer, 2012 “How long is this kid going to last,” uncles speculated, [...]
by Phyllis B. Katz Pressed Flower Scrapbook, Norwich, VT Written words were in my blood. An ardent abolitionist, my grandfather gave slaves voice, wrote poems [...]
Spun Flax, Norwich, VT, 1862 by Lisa Furmanski ‘Twas the sleep of butter and lard, one hundred winters for rendering the dead things, mittens and mince. Stolid [...]