NEWS
FROM THE EDITH MASON LIBRARYNEWS
FROM THE EDITH MASON LIBRARY
There
were a number of additions to the library this year, chiefly gifts from our
members and from interested parties.
The
Scottrons donated a number of books and pamphlets, including seven of the Old
Sturbridge Village pamphlets which were added to the Reference collection.
A
newspaper transciption from 1894 tells of Charlotte Waldo who carried mail from
Willington to Bolton and back for a number of years.
We
received the Secretary and Treasurer’s reports for the Garden Gate Club,
1966-1981.
Mr.
R. L. Hanks of East Greenwich, R.I. gave an ancestry chart of the Hanks family
compiled in 1984.
A
photocopy of The Halls of New England, printed in 1883, was added to the
Genealogy section, as were two volumes on cemetery inscriptions made by W. K.
Pike of Danielson. One is the Mansfield
Center Old Cemetery, copied out in 1931, and the other, Cemeteries in
Mansfield, Conn., which includes the Waldo, Gurley, Storrs and Brown
cemeteries.
The
diaries of Edith Nason for the years 1893 and 1897 were received.
These make an interesting reading of the day by day life of an ordinary
resident of Mansfield. Ann Galonska
made a transcription of the diaries.
A
copy of the Plymouth Church record for Augustus Storrs and family was given by
Lois Rosebrooks. A description of
the stained glass window in the church is included.
Other
items are too numerous to list singly, so I will thank those donors on behalf of
the Society for their gifts.