Hanover's Bicentennial Book

Scheduled to come off the press early next month, the Hanover Bicentennial Book (1761-1961) will be an illustrated, hardcove volume of over 300 pages. It will contain 22 historical essays covering a great many facets of the town's lively existence over the past 200 years.

Francis Lane Childs '06, who taught English at Dartmouth for 45 years until he retired in 1954, served as editor-in-chief of the book and contributed two of the chapters, one entitled "Personages and Eccentrics" and the other "Town and Gown."

Other chapters and their authors are: "Of Colonial-Revolutionary Adventure" by Edward C. Lathem '51; "The Town's Prehistory" by Prof. John B. Lyons; "The River" by Prof. W. Randall Waterman; "From Oxcart to Airplane" by Armstrong Sperry; "Roads and Runnels, Hills and Hollows" by Charlotte Ford Morrison; "Folks, Farms and Fun in East Hanover" by Lillian Kenison Bailey; "Hanover Goes to War" by Prof. John B. Stearns '16; "Early Houses: Outside the Village" by Marjory Lord Packard; "Early Houses: In the Village on the Plain" by Jeannette Mather Lord; "Main Street" by Phoebe Storrs Stebbins; "Victualing and Lodging" by Prof. John Hurd '21; "Laura Bridgman" by Prof. Stearns Morse; "The Christie Warden Mur-der" by Robert P. Richmond; "Flood, Fire and Wind" by Prof. Bancroft H. Brown; "Hanover Out of Doors" by Prof. Frederick S. Page '12; "Doctors and Hospitals" by Alice Pollard; "The Churches of Hanover" by Rebecca Gallagher Williams; "Schools in Town and Village" by Elisabeth and David Bradley '38; "Printer's Ink" by Charles E. Widmayer '30; and "The Chain of Libraries" by Margaret Beck McCallum.

Hanover's Bicentennial Book has been designed by Ray Nash, director of Dartmouth Publications. It will sell for $5.00, but a pre-publication price of $4.50 has been set for those who order copies by May 1. These advance orders, accompanied by checks made out to the Hanover Bicentennial Committee, should be sent to 105 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H.

Editor Francis Lane Childs '06