Articles of Interest

Two recent articles by Pawlet resident Ken Major are available here:
With Bells On
Kerosene, Whales, and Strange Taxes

Our monthly board meetings are usually held the second Thursday, 7 PM. The next monthly meeting of the PHS Board will be Thursday, October 10, 2019, 7 PM, at the Pawlet Library in Pawlet Village.

Howard Coffin, “Vermont Women and the Civil War,” Thursday, October 17, 2019, 7 PM, Pawlet Town Hall: Historian Howard Coffin explains, with nearly 35,000 of the state’s able-bodied men at war, how women took on farming, worked in factories, served as nurses in the state’s military hospitals, and more. Drawing from letters and diaries, Coffin tells their story in their own words, to describe life during the Civil War in the Green Mountain State. A Vermont Humanities Council event hosted by Pawlett Historical Society. Contact: Theresa Jones, 802-325-3382.

PHS Annual Meeting on November 14th at 7:00 PM at the Pawlet Library.

All our events are free and open to the public.