Lanterna Rally

Author: Edward T. Fairbanks

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 9781332167715

Excerpt from The Town of St. Johnsbury, Vt: A Review of One Hundred Twenty-Five Years, to the Anniversary Pageant 1912 The pages that follow are my response to many and urgent requests from citizens of the town. They are finally prepared under the auspices of the St. John de Crevec ur Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. I have set the work in paragraphs, a series of sketches not always closely related. Material is not at hand to satisfy our ideal of a very formal town history, at least for the first fifty years. The earlier decades are comparatively barren of interesting events like those which distinguish the history of many of our neighboring towns. For this reason we have to make the most of what we have. Herbert Spencer's rule of literary composition requires that we secure economy of the readers attention and make the book serve two main ends - readability and reference. During its first half century St. Johnsbury had no conspicuous rank among the towns of the County. It was relatively an unimportant town until the development of manufacturing and educational interests, the opening of the Passumpsic railroad and the transference of the County Seat combined to give it leadership in this part of the State. The only previous attempt at making a history of the town was in 1860, during the publication of the Vermont Historical Gazetteer. At that time the town of St. Johnsbury was put into my hands for historical treatment. I found nothing in print except a paragraph in the old First Church manual. The first thing done was to interview the octogenarians and nonagenarians of the town, during which interesting process sundry floating items were picked up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."