East Hardwick Children's Parade June 9

It's finally almost here! The East Hardwick Children's Parade will march this Saturday, June 9. Registration begins at 10:00 am at Hardwick Chiropractic (Old Schoolhouse) parking lot on Highway 16. Line up will be at 10:45 and the parade starts at 11:00.

The parade will be followed by the Kids Festival at the E.H.C.C. and Grange #9 lawns with free ice cream, face painting, a plant swap, and much more!

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Cabot Historical Society

Main Street Building

Open Sat., June 9, 2012

1 - 3 P.M.

If you haven't visited the Cabot Historical Society museum and library recently, plan to stop by and spend some time browsing through historical displays, documents, photographs and memorabilia.  Search for your family name in albums of newspaper clippings, photographs, obituaries and documents dating from the 1790's.  We now have a new collection available, the Osgood papers - a collection of documents, letters and notes by long-time town clerks in Cabot, Thomas Osgood, Esq. and his son, Thomas, Jr.   The combined service of the two Osgood men spanned six decades, from 1796 to 1858.

There are displays that include relics from Gen. Hazen's camp during Revolutionary War days and the Smuggler's House on Cabot Plain.  You'll find exhibits of old tools, furnishings, and early doctors' medicine kits and tools (see photo); and you'll glimpse what life was like in the early days when Cabot was first settled. 

There are books by local authors for sale, including the oral history of Cabot published in 1999, "Cabot, Vermont - A Collection of Memories From the Century Past,"  and "The Blodgett Papers;" a combined history of Cabot and genealogy of the Blodgett family by the late Rev. Fred Blodgett; a book of poetry by the Cabot Poetry Society; David Book's new book about Cabot's Civil War soldiers; and David and Marilyn Perrin's book, "A Vermont Friendship Quilt Goes West in 1856; and others.  

Museum staff will be on hand to assist with research and answer questions.  Bring the family.