Bennington Historical Society launches blog

Published: 02-21-2023 12:57 PM

The Bennington Historical Society has launched a new blog, benningtonnewhampshirehistory.blog, and new articles will be posted every few weeks.

“We thought it was time to move the society into the digital age,” Program Director Molly Flower Eppig stated. “A bricks-and-mortar history museum is a fine place to store artifacts, but our aim is to take the history to the people, wherever they are and whenever they want. Only people who are in the area can visit the museum, but with a blog, anyone could visit and learn about Bennington from Mumbai or Montreal or Monterey if they wish.” 

Blog posts are planned to tell how the town was founded and how it took shape. Photographs of old buildings, some no longer in existence, will show how the town looked in days past. Some of the photographs can be found in two books which are available through the BHS, “A History of Bennington, NH” and “A Pictorial History of Bennington, NH,” both written by David Glynn with Stephanie Abbot Roper.

Other photos will come from the albums of postcards donated by David Sysyn. 

The BHS hopes that local residents will go to the blog and become faithful followers. Readers from Canada, Saudi Arabia, China and Taiwan have already visited the site.

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