The Newtown bee., 1907-02-08
Ten Pages.
EDITORIAL INK DROPS

Every citizen and descendant of the
 town of Bedding will want to own copy of Charles Burr Todd's new book, entitled 'The History of Bedding from it's First Settlement to the Pres ent Time" even if they have to put a mortgage on the old "hoss." MT Todd l has succeeded in an admirable manner
 in combining past and present-day
 history and has gotten out book which is beautiful from the stand | point of the typographical art. It
 comprises BOP pages, and in addition
 to the historical matter contains many fine half tone portraits and cuts of churches and residences. In the preface to the book MT Todd says:
 An interest is attached to the place of ones birth which change of scene Il rather enhances than removes, and which increases rather than diminishes in intensity as one approaches the later stages of life; this home feeling has been largely instrumental ln the production of this work, and to it is due nearly everything of interest or value that the book possesses. A his tory of Bedding has been long contem- plated by the author as 8 service due his native town, and has long shrunk from because of the labor, the expense and the difficulty of it's compilation
 Whether we'll or lilly done, it is now completed, and goes out to the some , what limited public for whom it wa.
 written. The materials for the worl cient records of the town and parish
 from the records of the colony, ant
 from the files of musty papers in thu
 State library at Hartford. Tradition
 and oral information have not beel n neglected, and every reasonable effor 2 has been made to render the work a
 far as possible thorough and reliabl
 history of the town. That errors ant . discrepancies will be found, is to b
 expected; but it is not believed tha
 they are sufficiently numerous or i'm
 portant to destroy it's historical value
 In the preparation of the book tn
 compiler has aimed to preserve tn
 character of local historian, and ha
 confined himself chiefly to the nara
 tion of local facts and incidents. I
 tended biography of Joel Barlow, a = first intended for this work. has bee , excluded. The sketch of thespoet $
 grew on the authors hands, that
 was found it would malRe volume b
 itself, and contained 80 much of ger
 eral interest and detail that it coul e Q not be made to harmonize with th
 local character of this work. A concis sketch of the poets life, however, an . the original portrait from Fulton v oil painting, that formed the fronti
 piece of the Columbiad, are include Q. in it's pages. Many things happen
 the space of 26 years, even in count1
 town. During that period in Reddin
 Putnam Memorial Camp has been e
 tablished by the State. There ha,
 been brought to light stores of Rev = lutionary data unknown in 1880, whic
 the author was in a position to ava t himself of ,and which it seemed du1
 to make public. There was also stol < of genealogical information in tt < town and parish records not printed i x the earlier edition. Then the beaut A and salubrity of the old town has bee N discovered by residents of neighborir H cities who have come, and witho, = doubt will continue to come in ev,
 increasing numbers, to make the ot summer homes in it's borders, and