Histories

By Rev. Bill Randall January 1993 Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews Writer’s Note: The Harvey Lions Club has been the principal financial supporter of the

By Rev. Bill Randall February 1993 Cecil MacLean has some interesting stories about his earlier days. He tells me that he was born in Happy

By Rev. Bill Randall April 1993 Having access as I do to the photocopies we have made of many family scrapbooks I get an appreciation

By Rev. Bill Randall February 13, 1992 Jessie Moffitt remembers when there was a large public hall at Farm Point on Magaguadavic Lake. In the

By Rev. Bill Randall February 8, 1991 On December 23, 1990, the St. Andrews United Church had a significant part of their program related to

By Rev. Bill Randall July 20, 1990 About fifty years ago the community of Harvey displayed a rather unique isolationism. As we have noted most,

By Rev. Bill Randall January 26, 1990 Getting ready for the Royal  Winter Fair in Toronto was a busy time for the Harvey Jersey farmers.

By  Rev. Bill Randall October 12, 1990 I had a great idea for a story this week! It would have been about a moose hunt!

By: Rev. Bill Randall November 16, 1990 During the last year our household has experimented with at least three types of mod em telephones, in

By Rev. Bill Randall May 25, 1990 It is a pleasure for me to hear the response from the readers of the “Scrap Book” and

By Rev. Bill Randall May 18, 1990 T. K. Craig went into the hospital last week to correct visual problems. Kay is ninety three years old.

By Rev. Bill Randall May 4, 1990 July 9, 1943, was a hot, humid day with huge thunder clouds building in the sky. It seemed

By Rev. Bill Randall March 9, 1990 “Willis do you hear that noise yonder? Sounds like maybe Charlie’s in trouble.” Willis leaned the fork up

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 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