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From: "Dave Lantz" <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Wachusett ?
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:15:50 -0400
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Lisa, you are right on with your reply. I sent the following to Scott:

"Scott, I don't know from your post how familiar you are with Worcester
County, but Mt. Wachusett is a very prominent point in the area. Many
things were referred to by the Wachusett name - especially for the area
around Mt. Wachusett covering: Barre, Boylston, East Princeton, Fitchburg,
Gardner, Holden, Hubbardston, Jefferson, Leominister, Princeton, Rutland,
Sterling, Templeton, West Boylston, West Sterling, Westminster and
Williamsville. I grew up in Princeton and skied on Mt Wachusett before it
was a resort. We skied without benefit of any lifts and the niceties of
snackbars and restroom facilities. Usually 3 or 4 of us would ski together.
We used a 1950 Ford convertible with the rear window zipped open (it is hard
to believe that car is 54 years old now - if it is still around). We'd slide
our skis in the window and drive up the Mountain on the down road. 3 of us
would ski down the other skier would drive down and his turn would be on the
next trip."

Dave Lantz
Newark, OH


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Lepore" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Wachusett ?


> Wachusett is a place - Mt. Wachusett Ski area is located
> Princeton Ma, so maybe you can locate either a newspaper of
> that name, or a newspaper that covered that area of Massachusetts
> in that time period.
>
> You could try the Princeton Library
> http://library.town.princeton.ma.us/
>
> Lisa
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott John (IT)" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:06 AM
> Subject: [MAWORCES] Wachusett ?
>
>
> > I have an article written in 1867 about a Mr. James Piper of Barre
> ( mr
> > umpteenth great grandfather) Mr. Piper had the distinction of living
> to his
> > 104 th year.
> >
> > The article mentions a visit by the author ( this may have been a
> Boston
> > paper) when he turned 100 - the article talks about the curiosities
> that
> > were in his household.
> >
> > At any rate - the author talks about the previous article having
> appeared in
> > "wachusett" in 1863 - don't know if that was a section of the paper
> that
> > did special features or a paper in itself ?
> >
> > Any ideas ???
> >
> > Jack
> >
>
>
>
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