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Fight over Incorporation:
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles about the early history of Nelson. Click here to go to the previous article. We dont know what our early Nelson forebears looked like, but we...
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Nelson Strings Inaugural Concert
See this concert on YouTube! On Thursday evening, May 19th, dozens of Nelson residents (and a few flat-landers) assembled in the Hoffman Auditorium at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. The...
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Nelson Celebrates It’s First Official Walking Trail
Jeanette Baker aka Jaybird The Trails Committee of Moving in Step and the Conservation Commission celebrated the opening of our first walking trail. The event featured a talk by Jeanette Baker on her...
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Nelson Makes the OED . . .
. . . Though they don’t seem to know about our town. October 20, 2011: The Oxford English Dictionary “Word of the Day: Nelson, n.1 Etymology: < the name of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte...
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A Hike Up Rollstone Mountain
Editor’s Note: Rollstone Mountain was also the inspiration for a contra dance tune written by Ralph Page. It was recorded in 1975 by Rodney Miller (fiddle), Randy Miller (piano) and Peter O’Brien...
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Bailey Brook Trail
The Nelson Trails Committee sponsored a hike recently with the Harris Center to the Bailey Brook Trail. The hike drew more than 30 people on a clear and cold Saturday, February 11th. It was led by...
View ArticleLibrary Summer Forum
The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library has announced the speakers for the Summer Forum, which take place on Thursday evenings in July. The Forums are held in the Nelson Town Hall, at 7:00 PM, with a...
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An Early Nelson School
This is the first installment of a long article on the operation of one of Nelson’s early schools. The main source for the series is the seventy page record of School Number Seven from 1820 to 1858...
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School Vandalism (In the Olden Days)
1883 School #7: The shutters on the windows in this 1883 picture certainly weren’t installed to deflect arrows. Early Nelson schools experienced vandalism. Numerous rules were adopted and published...
View ArticleCPR Information Session
The Nelson Fire and Rescue Department has asked that we get the word out about a training course being held on May 14th at 6 p.m. at the Nelson School on CPR. This is an informational class for the...
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Fight over Incorporation:
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles about the early history of Nelson. Click here to go to the previous article. We dont know what our early Nelson forebears looked like, but we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nelson Strings Inaugural Concert
See this concert on YouTube! On Thursday evening, May 19th, dozens of Nelson residents (and a few flat-landers) assembled in the Hoffman Auditorium at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nelson Celebrates It’s First Official Walking Trail
Jeanette Baker aka Jaybird The Trails Committee of Moving in Step and the Conservation Commission celebrated the opening of our first walking trail. The event featured a talk by Jeanette Baker on her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nelson Makes the OED . . .
. . . Though they don’t seem to know about our town. October 20, 2011: The Oxford English Dictionary “Word of the Day: Nelson, n.1 Etymology: < the name of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte...
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A Hike Up Rollstone Mountain
Editor’s Note: Rollstone Mountain was also the inspiration for a contra dance tune written by Ralph Page. It was recorded in 1975 by Rodney Miller (fiddle), Randy Miller (piano) and Peter O’Brien...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bailey Brook Trail
The Nelson Trails Committee sponsored a hike recently with the Harris Center to the Bailey Brook Trail. The hike drew more than 30 people on a clear and cold Saturday, February 11th. It was led by...
View ArticleLibrary Summer Forum
The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library has announced the speakers for the Summer Forum, which take place on Thursday evenings in July. The Forums are held in the Nelson Town Hall, at 7:00 PM, with a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Early Nelson School
This is the first installment of a long article on the operation of one of Nelson’s early schools. The main source for the series is the seventy page record of School Number Seven from 1820 to 1858...
View ArticleClik here to view.
School Vandalism (In the Olden Days)
1883 School #7: The shutters on the windows in this 1883 picture certainly weren’t installed to deflect arrows. Early Nelson schools experienced vandalism. Numerous rules were adopted and published...
View ArticleCPR Information Session
The Nelson Fire and Rescue Department has asked that we get the word out about a training course being held on May 14th at 6 p.m. at the Nelson School on CPR. This is an informational class for the...
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