The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-10
THE COLIN MEMORIAL"
Handsome sOuvenir.-An American Coat
of Arms and Crest-Olin Family Annual
Reunions.

A Handsome souvenir.-An American Coat
of Arms and Crest.-Olin Family Annual
Reunions.
we have recently received handsome
souvenir of the Olin Family, who, it will
be remembered, held large reunion in
this village last fall. The souvenir con-
eight pages, and contains considerable
historical matter of interest to the fami-
ly, who can obtain the book for a small
sum of their historian.
This brochure is principally devoted to
a description of the design that has been
proposed, of an Olin Family Crest and
Coat of Arms. This design, which is
illustrated, was obtained from large
rock on the farm of Mrs. Lydia Briggs of
Clarendon, a member of the Family.
The rock is fifteen square at the base,
and fifteen feet in height. From crew
ice there has grown tree for more than
hundred years. Other trees haye since
made their appearance. The singularity
of the rock has been commented upon
by biologists and scientific men. The
writer of the souvenir says:
Now as this rock has attracted con-
siderable attention in the past we pro-
pose to make it still more attractive in
the future by adopting it as base for a
Crest and Coat of Arms, for the DIN
Family of America. Most of the CTests
that we see and hear of have been adopt
ed by old and illustrious families, taken
from designs obtained in the the older
countries IN Europe, but we mean to
make this distinctlvely American in
every sense of the word. At the top you
see our motto, Firm as Rock which
means stability, firmness, independence,
endurance. 1t has been over two hun
bred years since our ancestors emigrated
to America and it seems to us about
time that we, as an illustrious family,
adopt some design or insignia as our
sign manual. What can we use better
than this old rock of centuries past,
which is located upon the farm of one of
our kindred in the State of Vermont
where most of our people were born and
raised?n
From personal letter from the histo-
rian of the Family, we learn that the
building of memorial hall in Benning-
ton, has been proposed and that among
the Family's moneyed men, the PROPOSE
ton has been so favorably received that
there are strong probabilities that the
building will be erected.
The hall is intended for use as head
quarters for the DIN Family; as depoS-
itory for the relics that have Accumulate
ed in the Family, since its landing in
America, over three hundred years ago;
as a meeting place for their annual re-
unions; and also as arepository for relics
of local interest.
Rutland has her Baxter Memorial hall,
which has proved to be valuable adj
dition to that town; and an DIN Memo
rial hall would prove an almost invalua-
BILE addition to Bennington, but its val
ue would be greatly increased, could its
historical connections be increased by
making it the headquarters of the Sons of
the American Revolution; the Historical
Society; the Bennington Battle Monu
ment Association; Societies of the G.
A. R., etc.
If the project of Memorial building
should succeed, and we see no reason
why it should not, then an annual ercur-
sion of that family, accompanied by Yer
monters in the West, would be hence
forth assured.