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325th anniversary
will be special
WOODSTOCK --- As the oldest town in northeastern Connecticut, Woodstock will be the first to celebrate its 325th anniversary in 2011. On special anniversary occasions it has been the policy of the Woodstock Historical Society to plan projects that will produce a permanent result. For the upcoming celebration year the Society is planning to publish a pictorial history that will be a permanent record of the town—its people, landscape and significant events: From the Roxbury Fells to the Eastward Vale: A Journey Through Woodstock, 1686-2011.
The publication will be a 300-page, black/white hardcover book organized by village center—North Woodstock, South Woodstock, East Woodstock, West Woodstock, Woodstock Hill, Woodstock Valley, and the Bugbee Neighborhood. The eighth chapter will include historic maps and aerial views by Leslie Sweetnam. The book will include over 400 illustrations with captions and introductions to each chapter. The images from landscape paintings, portraits, drawings, early photographs, maps, documents and ephemera are drawn from the Society’s collection and private and other institutional collections to illustrate the history of the town.
The book will present a visual and textual interpretation of the town’s history in a way that has never been done previously. Many of the journals, letters, account books, deeds and documents in the Society’s collection have never before been transcribed or used in a publication.
From the Roxbury Fells to the Eastward Vale: A Journey Through Woodstock, 1686-2011 can be pre-ordered from the Woodstock Historical Society at a special discount price of $49.95. Order forms will be available at the Woodstock Fair in the society booths in the Alleyway behind the Grandstand and in the Brunn Barn. The Woodstock Historical Society can be reached at 860-928-1035 or www.woodstockhistoricalsociety.org.