Program, RH Conwell Community Education Center, Charlotte's Web
Program for June 8, 2011 performance of 'Charlotte's Web' by the students of RH Conwell Community Education Center. Director: Joanne Dupont; musical directors: Margaret Dondiego and Laura Sheridan. Thre performance, involving nearly everyone at the school plus some volunteers, was on June 8, 2011 at the Worthington Town Hall.
Cream-colored thick cotton baseball shirt for young man. Grey buttons. Brown trim. On sleeve: '12', on front: 'Worthington A. C.' on back: 'Meadowbrook Dairy Bar.' Accompanying note reads: 'Baseball shirt from Harley Mason. My parents, Stanley and Ethel Mason, sponsored a uniform for a youth tem. The Meadow Brook Dairy Bar was located where Echo Valley Farm Sugar House is still standing in South Worthinton on Rte 112. 1948-1952.' Some wear on cloth and trim.
Compilation of records associated with the closing of the R. H. Conwell Elementary School from Selectmen's Meetings, provided by Jeffrey Manley, disc prepared by Ed Lewis.
Publication - Book, 'Harvesting History: Amherst Massachusetts Farms, 1700-2010'
Softcover, 'Harvesting History' Edited and with several selections by Sheila Rainford and Ruth Own Jones. Amherst Area POublications, first edition, 2010. 343 pp. illustrated with index.
Leather bound weekly time book detailing names, hours worked and weekly pay for large number of Worthington men from Saturday June 11, 1898 through Saturday August 7, 1898. Names include Pierce, Ball, Gould, Frank Smith, Wells, Chapman, Hyde, Bottom, George Dodge, L. H. Converse, W. L. Smith, E. L. Thrasher, D. L. Prentice, Judson Leonard, H. G. Porter, E. C. Brown, Veats. Chas Jones, Chas Bates, I. Bartlett, E. Bartlett , Geo Starkweather among others. Payroll decreases from June through August. G. E. Lewis, working 6 days a week @ $3.50/day, earns the most -- $21.00 per week. Most get paid between $1.50 and $2.75 per day. A. W. Trow was proprietor of the Worthington Inn so perhaps these men worked there during the summer season, but only Trow's name appears on the first page.
Deed - John Watts to Town of Worthington, 1802
Deed, dated September 29, 1802, from John Watt [sic] to the 'inhabitants of the Town of Worthington, aforesaid, and to their successors in their said corporate capacity forever. . .a certain piece of land lying in said Worthington containing one acre, bounded as follows (viz) beginning at a cherry tree standing on the south side of a Town road, then running easterly on the south line of said road fourteen rods to a stake and stones -- then westerly fourteen rods to a stake and stones, the northerly eleven rods and nine feet to the first mentioned corner.' Signed by John Watt. No witnesses. He is identified as a yeoman and received ten dollars in compensation.
Deed - John Watts to Town of Worthington, 1826
Deed, dated March 28, 1826, from John Watts to Town of Worthington. For 10 dollars, Watts gives 'said inhabitants of Worthington in their corporate capacity and their successors forever, a tract of land lying in Worthington aforesaid bounded as follows. Beginning at the northwest corner of the burying grounds on my farm and running east two degrees north on the Town road, twenty rods and four links thence south two degrees east, ten rods and eighteen links, thereon west two degrees south twenty rods and four links, thence north two degrees west, ten rods and eighteen links to the first bounds, containing one acre? fifty seven rods and one third of a rod.' Signed by John Watts. Witnessed by Nelson Mitchell and William Ward, and signed additionally by William Ward as Justice of the Peace
South Worthington Church, Young People's Society
Handwritten record of 'Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor' of the South Worthington Methodist Chuch. Found in Parsonage. Entries range from 1895-1901. Includes Articles of Incorporation, names of officers. Ca. 170 pp.
Elisha Converse (1772-1852) Account Book 1833-1843
Handwritten, leather bound account book of Elisha Converse, South Worthington, Mass. Has ex library markings. Various accounts of money owed to and by Converse to large number of Worthingon residents. Names include Sanderson, Higgins, Ring, Tower etc.
Remembering Cummington, Poems and Sketches Olive M. Thayer
Remembering Cummington, Poems and Sketches' Olive M. Thayer, 88 pages, Cummington Historical Commission, signed by Olive Thayer, born in Worthington, 1898. A few black and white illustrations.
CD - Worthington Massachusetts Millennium Quilt Scenic Blocks
CD-R with images showing the Worthington Millennium quilkt, 2000-2010. Includes images of the full quilt as well as separate images of invidiaul sides blocks and of the people who contributed to its design and constructions. The labels on the back are also pictured.
A History of Williamsburg in Massachusetts
A History of Williamsburg in Massachusetts' compiled by Barbara Baker Deming, 175th Anniversary, The Hampshire Bookshop, Northampton, Mass. 1946, 416 pages with black and white illustrations. No index.
Video of Worthington Post Office operations, ca. 1985
DVD-R showing operations of the Worthington Post office during Cullen ('Pete') packard's tenure as postmaster. Shows mail being brought from Williamburg to Worthington, being sorted and put into boxes, and then redlivered to nearby towns. People on video include Pete Packard, June Dodge, Harnett Osgood, Lois Brown, Joan Mendelsohn, Tim Diehl and Marshall Taleferro. Abt. 10 min. Also includes some scenes from the Springfield post office depot.
Scan of Worthington Inn advertising card
Scan only of both sides of advertising card for the Worthington Inn. On back: The Worthington Inn offers First Class Accommodations. Everything New Throughout with Modern Conveniences. Telephone Connection. Altitude 1500. For terms and information,a address A. W. Trow, Worthington, Mass.' On front: black and white photograph showing the inn.
Map prepared by Ed lewis showing position of gravestones at Benjamin Cemetery
Drawing of 'The Maples' by William G. Rice
Drawing in pen and crayon or pastel by William G. Rice: On back is written: 'Parlor a The Maples in the Time of the Grandparents, Wm. & Wealthy Cottrell Rice, Drawn and Painted by William G. Rice, 1879' Gold frame, back paper deteriorating. Glass.
Annual Report of the Town of Worthington, 2009. Cover shows Corners Grocery. reproduced from oil painting by Robert Sweeney, Thayer Hill Road. Dedicated to Cullen ('Pete') Packard.
Survey of Brewster & Benjamin Cemeteries
Survey of Gravestones in Brewste and Benjamin Cemeteries' by Historical Society, the Community and Boy Scouts.
1999 application Mass. Historical Comm. for Cemetery work
Documents related to unsuccessful application to Massachusetts Historical Commission for funds for cemetery cleanup. Includes 8' x 10' black and white photo of North Cemetery wall.
Ox yoke was carved by Duane Bartlett's father 'in a few hours.'