We now know that yesterday's shutdown of Route 15 was because of a head-on collision. Here is a link to that story from the Caledonian Record: Crash in Walden

I apologize - I didn't realize you cannot see the full article unless you have an on-line subscription to the newspaper. So I'll recap for you:  Dawn Hill, 54 of Hardwick was badly injured yesterday afternoon when she crashed head-on into Tanya O'Brien, 38 of Danville. O'Brien was traveling west toward Hardwick when she was hit. The accident occurred just east of the junction of Routes 2 and 215 at Walden Heights. Hill was taken to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH by helicopter with broken legs and possible internal injuries. O'Brien was not seriously injured and was released from NVRH later on Tuesday. She was wearing a seat belt; Hill was not. Hydraulic cutting tools had to be used to get Hill out of the vehicle. The helicopter landed in a field owned by Norbert and Gloria Rowell (Rowell's Sugarhouse). The road was closed for about four hours and traffic re-routed to Brickett's Crossing and West Shore Road.

We wish Dawn well and also Tanya O'Brien of Danville, driver of the other car who was wearing a seat belt and was not as seriously hurt, but I'm sure will have lasting effects from this event.

This is going to be another pretty nice day, so get out there and enjoy it. We are expecting rain later today into tomorrow, and then another great weekend. How lucky can we be? It's always great to have nice weekends!! Not everyone is retired and able to enjoy good weather on weekdays, so it's really nice when weekend weather cooperates for those folks.

I have been corresponding with a couple of people who have Cabot connections and who are also anxiously awaiting the publication of the West Danville history book. One of

these new friends sent me a great photo of a large group of Masons and their families at Flint's Park, Joe's Pond. I happened to have an ad about one of those meetings being held in September, 1904. It may have been the same group. It was particularly significant for me because I had a copy of the same photo in the Cabot Historical Society collection and we had thought it was probably one of the Old Home Day picnic groups that used to meet for picnics  in various sugar woods or at the Center of Town in Cabot. However, this photo was clearly identified as a group of Masons at a picnic at Flint's Park. I am hoping to be able to use the photo in our chapter on Flint's Park. We wish we could identify some of the people, but that is pretty unlikely to happen. The building on the left was not a sugar house as we had originally thought, but was probably either someone's camp or the original pavilion erected by O. B. Flint. What role the broom played in these festivities, I have no idea, but the ladies whose laps it crosses don't seem to want anything to do with it. Perhaps it was part of the Masonic ritual? It would be interesting to  know. Anybody?