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Scary encounter with the Grog Hollow Monster

All’s well that ends well. But for a moment, we thought we were doomed. It was a glorious Easter morning, March ..


The elusive old road between Woods Corners and South New Berlin

The earliest evidence that a road existed between the Village of Norwich and the hamlet of South New Berlin is ..


Souvenirs of Yesteryear: Farmstead Archaelogy

Local history is frustrating because of the lack of written records from our earliest settlers. The first Euro-American to write ..


Souvenirs of Yesteryear: Stealth Tourists

See all those tourists in the photo? Probably not, because they are invisible. That is why I call them “stealth ..


Souvenirs of Yesteryear: The Jordan Spreader

This article is not about John the Baptist trying to emulate Moses. It is about a railroad car. Not just ..


Who lived here and when?

Two archaeological questions immediately pop into my mind when I gaze at land near a river. Who lived here? ..


Souvenirs of Yesteryear: Plasterville

A little hamlet aptly named for one of its main products, Plasterville is nestled in the southeastern quadrant of the ..


Souvenirs of Yesteryear: Day which still lives in infamy

Most of you reading this newspaper were probably born after Sunday December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in ..


Souvenirs of Yesteryear: Consolidating Chenango into three towns

If the City of Norwich dissolved itself, then the Town of Norwich would have to take it, like it or ..


Souvenirs of Yesteryear: Fellow traveler

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child; I felt as a child; I thought as a child. ..


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