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		<title>PHS Works with Others to Rebuild Store: Plans Community Meeting Feb 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The longest-running general store in Vermont, dating to the mid-1790s, was lost to arson on November 1. Now, with grants from Chittenden Bank and the Harris and Frances Block Foundation as well as strong community donation and sustained support from the Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Windham Foundation, the Putney Historical Society is firming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rutland Herald reports positively on PHS work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putney aims to save itself by taking over fire-damaged store, closed church By Kevin O&#8217;Connor Staff Writer &#8211; Published: August 16, 2009 PUTNEY — First the centuries-old general store went up in flames. Then the big church across the street closed. In response, the Putney Historical Society has decided the best way to preserve its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release&#8211;PHS and East Putney Community Club successful in grant application</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PIERCE&#8217;S HALL RECEIVES GRANT FOR A NEW ROOF by Anne Kerrey EAST PUTNEY&#8211;Pierce&#8217;s Hall, a favorite venue of contra dancers and bands for the last 35 years, has passed a milestone on its path toward a new roof in the New Year. The Vermont Division of Historic Preservation has awarded the Putney Historical Society the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Virginia, the Putney Historical Society does own the General Store!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After strong community support, a loan, and some legal back and forth, the Putney Historical Society closed on the General Store on November 7. Very exciting! Bob Stevens, a respected Brattleboro engineer, helped us complete a structural analysis in September and October to determine feasibility and costs, which were higher than we had hoped. Immediately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A History of the Corner Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laurel Ellis and Stuart Strothman There has been a general merchandise store on the site of the Putney General Store, and possibly in the same building, for over 200 years. The land on which the store stands was originally part of the two-acre sawmill property when Charles Kathan was said to have erected the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genesis Church of the Brethren</title>
		<link>http://putneyhistory.us/2008/09/06/genesis-church-of-the-brethren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Church of the Brethren bears an historical relationship to the Quakers and the Menonites, as one of the three main branches of brethren-related churches which have grown from colonial and early American communities organized in Pennsylvania. Here in Putney, In 1981, in late summer, three families moved to southeastern Vermont to establish a Church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putney Historical Timeline, 1500s &#8211; 2003</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This timeline was created by Laurel Ellis and Fern Tavalin for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Putney&#8217;s charter. Putney Vermont Historical Timeline, 1500s-2003 Date Historical Event 1500s Estimated there were at least 10,000 Native people living in what is now Vermont. Most likely descended from the Algonquin and Iroquoian peoples, known as Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angie Wood</title>
		<link>http://putneyhistory.us/2008/07/27/angie-wood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Stuart Strothman, August 2002, at Angie Wood&#8217;s apartment at 91 Main Street When Angie Wood was three years old, a woman who had been involved in the founding of Northfield Mount Hermon came to New York City, and came to know Angie’s mother, who was young with many children, and little Angie, the fifth, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Father James Coombs</title>
		<link>http://putneyhistory.us/2008/07/27/father-james-coombs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Stuart Strothman, August 2002, at the rectory on Old Depot Rd. Father James Coombs, who resided at the Catholic rectory on Old Depot Road, first came to Putney in 1942 for summer vacations.  His grandfather had lived in Vermont, working as a stonecutter in West Dummerston, and so his father was born here, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doris Fredericks</title>
		<link>http://putneyhistory.us/2008/07/27/doris-fredericks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Strothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael C. Morello, Landmark student, April 2002 Doris Fredericks, owner of the Clay School, has been a citizen of Putney, Vermont since 1978.  Her past has had many twists and turns, which eventually led her to this small semi-rural town in southern Vermont. I didn’t ask her age, but prior to the age of [...]]]></description>
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