Local history, notable events, or biographical sketches.
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
By Rev. William Randall December 1998 Among interesting people in the history of Harvey are some ladies, who, as time flies by may be forgotten.
Don Messer was born in 1909 in a house located in Tweedside near Harvey Station. He was the youngest of 11 children in a family
In the Adam Wise, Part 1 post, some background concerning slavery and its abolition was summarized as context for Adam Wise’s story. Here, details of
Following up on a previous post about the Black community in the Lake George, New Brunswick area in the 1800s, this post along with one
A fascinating account of the early black community that settled at Lake George.
