MISCELLANEOUS
How Old Is This House?: A Skeleton Key to Dating and Identifying Three Centuries of American Houses, by Hugh Howard; Noonday Press, 1989; donated by Ruth B. Ekstrom.
This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House, by Bob Vila with Jane Davison; Little, Brown & Co., 1980; donated by Ruth B. Ekstrom.
The Fruit of the Family Tree, by Albert Edward Wiggam, Bobbs-Merrill, 1924; from the Thelma Vandale Collection. About eugenics, a politically incorrect subject today.
Curious Footprints: Professor Hitchcock’s Dinosaur Tracks & Other Natural History Treasures at Amherst College, text by Nancy Pick, photographs by Frank Ward; published by Amherst College Press, 2006; donated by Tyler Resch.
Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, compiled by James Fairbairn and revised by Laurence Butters, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1968; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
Three cartographic items: folders of navigation charts of Lake Champlain and of New York’s Hudson Valley, and an illustrated topographic guide to Rhode Island; donated by Victor Rolando.
“The Legal Rights of Women in Vermont,” by Governor’s Commission on Women, 1991.
Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Volume 40; Penobscot Press, 2006.
Northeast Historical Archaeology, special issue: “From the Netherlands to New Netherland: the Archaeolgy of the Dutch in the Old and New Worlds,” donated by Victor Rolando.
Vermont Tours. 48-page pamphlet published by Vermont Development Commission, 1937, reprinted 1958. Donated by Joanne Dearcopp.
LOCAL AUTHORS
Bradford of Plymouth, by Bradford Smith; J. B. Lippincott, 1951. A descendant, who resided in Shaftsbury, wrote this biography of his Mayflower ancestor.
Portrait of India, by Bradford Smith, J. B. Lippincott, 1962.
Robert Todd Lincoln’s Hildene and How It Was Saved 1975-1978, by Donald B. Keelan of Arlington; the Keelan Family Foundation, 2001. Donated by the author.
Understood Betsy: A Play, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, adapted by Sarah N. Cleghorn.
Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles, by John Spargo (founder of Bennington Museum); Macmillan, 1910; donated by Joan Brockway Esch.
A Widow for One Year, by John Irving, a Ballantine Book, 1998.
Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor’s Guide to Good Health, by D.C. Jarvis, Henry Holt and Company, 1958.
Honey in the Rock, by Doris Kirkpatrick, Elsevier/Nelson Books, 1979. Historical fiction by Whitingham author based on the taking of land by New England Power Co. to create Harriman dam and reservoir, part of Deerfield River hydroelectric project.
Dawn’s Early Light by Elswyth Thane; Duell, Sloan and Pearce, undated. Donated by Victor Rolando to add to a collection of novels by Wilmington author.
Hill Song, A Country Journal, by Lee Pennock Huntington; Countryman Press, Woodstock, 1985. Poetry. Cloth, 163 pp. Donated by Joanne Dearcopp.
Three Shades of Green, by Marion B. Lawrence of Stamford; self-published, 1967. Poetry. Cloth, 80 pp. Donated by Joanne Dearcopp.
Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, by Shirley Jackson; Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1953.
“Our Debt to the Pilgrims,” by Bradford Smith; booklet published in 1957 by “At the Choir Alley Press,” Plymouth; donated by Ruth B. Ekstrom.
The Journal of Vermont Archaeology, Vol. 6, 2005, published by the Vermont Archaeological Society, Victor R. Rolando, editor. Donated by Victor Rolando.
The Greater Glory, by William Dudley Pelley; Little, Brown & Co., 1919. Author, famed for “brown shirt” activities, once resided in Bennington.
A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden (Readsboro) by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, Little, Brown & Co., 1995.
The American Family House 1800-1960, by Clifford Edward Clark Jr., University of North Carolina Press, 1986 (several Bennington examples are included in the text and photos); donated by Ruth B. Ekstrom.
Vermont Is Where You Find It, Harcourt, Brace, 1941, by Keith W. Jennison; donated by Nancy H. Otis.
The Stinehour Press: Notes on its first five years, by Sinclair Hitchings, 1957, including the Stinehour Press Handbook of Style; donated by Nancy H. Otis.
The following were donated by Diana Mayer:
New England Captives Carried to Canada, vols. I and II, by Emma Lewis Coleman, Bowie, Md., Heritage Press (reprints of 1925 eds.), 1989.
Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830, Bowie, Md., Heritage Press (reprint of 1913 edition), 1992.
Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 by Leonard H. Smith Jr. and Norma H. Smith, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.
The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783, by David Dobson, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989.
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors, by Cecil Sinclair, Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh, 1990.
Immigrants to the Middle Colonies, edited by Michael Tepper, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978.
Psychic Roots: Serendipity and Intuition in Genealogy, by Henry Z. Jones Jr., Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.