The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-06-14
SOUVENIR OF
BENNINGTON
Artistic Creation Gotten Ont by
M. H. Robinson.


title is out and it is we'll worth waiting
for. 1t is quarto volume Of $50
pages, profusely illustrated, and is
published under the Auspices of the
Directors ofthe Young Men Christian
Association of Bennington, Vermont.
Edited and compiled by Melvin II.
Robinson l9O3-4.
The photographs are by W. T.
White and w. II. Sibley, the printing
by the Troy Times Art Press, Troy
and the engraving by the Empire En-
craving Co., of Albany. The paper
is heavy glazed plate paper made eX-
pressly for this class of work. The
mechanical execution of the book is of
extraordinary excellence.
1t does not however pretend to be a
history of our town. In his introduc-
tion A.r Robinson says: at is not in
tended by me to reproduce any more
of the historic facts of the town of Ben
nington than is necessary TO make
the sketches complete. But my
intentions are by sketch and engrav-
ings to show what the three villages of
Bennington that lie nestled at the foot
of the Green Mountain are today. l
have endeavored to bring out the busi-
ness interests of the town as well as TO
show the beautiful homes and other
matters of interest" This purpose
seems to be we'll carried out.
Among the illustrations we notice
the portraits of but few of our citizens
except those holding state, county,
town or village Offices and officials or
members of some of our organizations
such for instance as the YMCA and
Co X, WIG. The frontispiece is fine
portrait of the governor Of the state
with his official signature "John G.
Mccullough, Governor.
The Oldest male resident OF Benning-
ton, Daniel Carpenter, born in 1914,
appears on p. 10 just as he does daily
on our streets. Four married couples
who celebrated their golden wedding
in the nineties are represented on p.
81. A full page of very young child
ren is given, a good sample of the
coming generation. A pair of twin
girls appears at the foot of a page
having above them the portrait of one
Of our physicians, but his relation to
them is not as might be suspected by
strangers that of father. OF the men
Of Revolutionary days the unfamiliar
portraits of two of them of note are
given, Governor Isaac Tichenor and
Captain Elijah Dewey.
Another unfamiliar portrait is that
of one whom a few now living remem-
Der, the last Democratic governor of
Vermont, a very worthy citizen, John
S. Robinson, governor OF this state
more than half a century ago. He was
a warm admirer of another Democrat,
a native Of Vermont, Stephen A. Doug
las and had he lived would undoubted-
ly, like Douglas, have supported Lin
coin as President, as many another
Democrat did. Surely John S. Robin
son could never have been Copper
head. These three half tones are
from original oil paintings.
Several old buildings appear, and
one for the first time. This is the
Harmon Tavern on the road which
Gen Stark's army took on their march
to meet the advancing forces of Bur-
gOyne though not at North Benning-
ton as the text has it. The public
buildings of the town, the monument,
churches, graded school buildings,
banks, railroad depots, factory build.
ing, business establishments and pri-
vate residences are we'll represented.
Perhaps one of the most impressive
features of the work is the production
of so many of the elegant homes of
our people, not all of them by any
means, but enough to show off our
beautiful villages and our attractive |