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100 Years Ago: 1924 No such ovation as was accorded Geraldine Farrar in Lewiston City Hall, Thursday evening, has been given to any singer in Lewiston, not even excepting the beloved Schumann-Heink. With hands, feet and voices the audience paid tribute to her beauty, her voice, her magnetism and her consummate art, in applause loud, […]

David Shoch on exhibit at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville, a three-course dinner inspired by the art of Anne Slaughter and more.

The Cheez-In Diner is located at 261 Tinker Street in Woodstock, New York, and will be open this week from 4-9 pm, Monday to Thursday, and then from 4 pm to 12 am through the weekend.

100 Years Ago: 1924 Recognition of the importance of women on the farm has led the American Farm Bureau Federation this year for the first time to include both men and women in its home and community work. Another sign of recognition is the resolution adopted at the federation’s last annual convention, urging that women […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Alfred Leblanc of Pine street, Lewiston, has taken over the interests of his brother, Philip, in the Lewiston Steam and Dye House at 139 Main street, Lewiston. Alfred has been manager of the concern, and is now sole owner. Philip Leblanc has opened a grocery store at 51 Knox Street. Mr. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A rather spectacular escape effected from the State School at Hallowell at 1 o’clock on Thursday morning when Cora Littlefield dropped from the third story window of her sleeping room to the ground by tying together bed clothing and hitching the same to a bedpost. The girl was found walking along […]

Day-to-day lessons are a vital part of the life of a school

100 Years Ago: 1924 A new industry for Maine? Yes, and it bids fair to be a mighty factor to the agricultural prosperity of our State. Canning of peas may well be called a new industry for our state. This has been started by the Portland Packing Company, and for the first year has proved […]

It might look like an, as yet , unscreened episode of Call the Midwife but this photo shows an ante-natal class in Bolton from almost 50 years ago

Dean Dass at Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville students art on the Downtown Mall and more.