
From The Scrapbook: Harvey Creamery
By Rev. Bill Randall March 2, 1990 Willis Moffitt got married in 1933 and was working for Clarence Swan, a next door neighbor, tending large
By Rev. Bill Randall March 2, 1990 Willis Moffitt got married in 1933 and was working for Clarence Swan, a next door neighbor, tending large
By Rev. Bill Randall March 9, 1990 On December 21, 1975, a large section of the community’s commercial district in the South-western New Brunswick Village
By Rev. Bill Randall June 22, 1990 Another landmark will soon be gone! Taylor Memorial Hall first opened in 1932 by the Taylor families, due
Rev. Bill Randall’s “From The Scrapbook” recounts the dramatic story of Werner Horn, a German agent who attempted to blow up the St. Croix Railroad Bridge at Vanceboro, Maine, in 1915 during World War I. The failed sabotage, hindered by extreme cold and poor timing, narrowly avoided becoming an international incident. Explore the history of this bridge and the near-miss event that could have changed the course of history.
By Rev. Bill Randall June 1, 1990 One of the fun things about looking backward into the past is to marvel at what inflation is
By Rev. Bill Randall July 27, 1990 It would be. fun to start my column “Miner strikes Rich Gold Vein!” I can’t do that but
By Rev. Bill Randall July 13, 1990 I was living in Edmondson in 1983 and on a visit to Harvey learned there was going to
By Rev. Bill Randall July 6, 1990 It’s finally happened! Back in the sixties I tried to organize a Harvey Historical Association. The meeting was to
By Rev. Bill Randall January 19, 1990 Though the history of Harvey is unique in that twenty-six families were settled by an Order-in-Council in 1837,
By Rev. Bill Randall January 12, 1990 Like many long-standing buildings, the old ‘Lakeview Hotel building’ in Harvey has a rather interesting history. Located in
By Rev. Bill Randall February 1990 The fiddle should be the cultural symbol of Harvey. Popularized by the International Radio and Television performances of Don
By Rev. Bill Randall February 23, 1990 I have one athletic trophy. It’s a curling trophy. Doc Fletcher invited me to be on his team
Rev. Bill Randall recounts the harrowing story of the 1919 Onawaua train wreck, where a tragic miscommunication led to a devastating collision near Onawaua Lake, Maine. Nineteen lives were lost, 59 were injured, and the freight and passenger trains were reduced to twisted wreckage. Survivor Earl Austin’s miraculous escape and the aftermath of this disaster remain etched in local history.
By Rev. Bill Randall February 9, 1990 “There’s No Business Like Show Business” – and I found out a lot about it when I came
By Rev. Bill Randall August 20, 1990 The community of Lake George got its name from John McGeorge, one of the pioneer settlers and the
By Rev. Bill Randall August 10, 1990 Syd Maclean was managing J. Clark and Sons, Harvey Branch; the business Clark’s had purchased from Herb Swan
By Rev. Bill Randall August 17, 1990 Lloyd Embleton and I take occasional tours around the Harvey area looking for picture material for the Scrapbook
By Rev. Bill Randall August 10, 1990 Contrary to the situation elsewhere in New Brunswick, the number of tourists visiting McAdam this summer has in
By Rev. Bill Randall August 3, 1990 The Annual Harvey Fair Days due soon coming up. Most of the events will be centralized in the
By Rev. Bill Randall April 13, 1990 I write frequently about structures that once were, or may still be, significant to the History of Harvey.
By Rev. Bill Randall April 6, 1990 I have written about structures that were a part of the history of the Harvey area and now
By Rev. Bill Randall November 22, 1989 Want to look at other monuments? If so, there is one on Ted Embleton’s lawn at Upper York
By Rev. Bill Randall November 29, 1989 Making a pastoral visit to the Littles in Little Settlement in 1954 wouldn’t have been a whole lot
By Rev. Bill Randall November 29, 1989 The facility known as “Park and Fly” where you can leave your automobile and take a Shuttle Bus
By Rev. Bill Randall October 25, 1989 Coburn’s Corner in Harvey, where the formaldehyde truck recently overturned, was very near the site of the first
The Stagecoach Roads of Charlotte County by Doug Dougherty Published in the October 4, 2011 edition of the Saint Croix Courier A man sits in