The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-04-23
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BENNINGTON HOME
OF MANY WRITER'S
Interesting Collection of Works And
Photographs Made BY Local
Book Store

VI course everyone knows that it is
pad form to brag over literary accom-
plishments, either collective or indi
dual, but J, Laurence GriswoId. the
new manager OF the Griswold store
on Main street, has pulled stunt.
to use the English of some of our re-
cent best sellers, that would seem to
indicate the town OF Bennington and
immed ate vic nifty has been acquir-
in G unique distinction.
Some days ago when Mr.. Griswold
learned that Bennington was to be
invaded during the present week by
some 300 or more school teachers. in
attendance upon the annual meeting
OF the Tri-County Teachers associa-
tton, he conceived the idea of making
q window display of the works of
Bennington and Bennington county
wr ters. He endeavored to secure
photographs of the writer's to be
grouped with the publications and in
this he was partly, but not wholly
successful. One writer the produc.
erl ,of one OF the more valuable works
in the collection, tod Mr. Griswold
that he hadn't been "mugged IN
years. Another. who has most inter
estingly related impressions brought
back from Journeys into little known
corners of the earth, was as bashful
rs schoolgirl when his likeness
was solicited and begged to be ey-
cused.
M III tlaafn No f1a O.,
Mr., Griswold has succeeded in gath.
ering collection of photographs
and works that combines some strik-
ng features. In the first place it
S remarkable that Bennington.
community of 10000 people, and the
immediate vicinity, should be or have
been the home of so many writer's.
some OF them with nationwide and
some with Internal onal reputation.
A wider diversity of writings It
would be difficult to imagine and at
the same time there is not a volume
N the collection not characterized by
real worth Some have preserved
valuable historical information that
might otherwise have been lost, 9TH
ers serve to enlighten concerning
world conditions in which all are vi
tally concerned whether they wish it
or not, others are instructive while
others were created to entertain and
amuse. The list follows.
Warwick s. Carpenter, winter
Camping" a handbook Of winter life
out Of doors
Henry Chase, Game Protect on
and Propagation in America"
A. Stuart M. Chisholm. "Recreations
of Physician" "The independence
of Chilli"
Sarah N. Cleghorn, "a Spinster," :"
Portraits and Protests"
w lockwood Conoyer, "Sallie Blue
Bonnet"
Dorothy Garfield Fisher "The
Brimming Cup" "The Bent Twig,"
Hilltop People" etc.
Rev. Isaac jennings The Old Meet
ing House."
John V. d. S. Merrill and Caroline
p. Merrill, Sketches of Historic
Bennington
Grace Greylock Niles "FIooeac Val
ley It's Legends and History.
Theodore Peck, Chester of the
Grants
william Dudley Pe'ley, 1.-THE Great
g: Glory
Jeanette Il. Perkins "The Adven-
lures of Saucy Rabbit and His
FriendS"
Vincent Ravi-Booth, why Do the
Good Suffer
Michael Myers Shoemaker, "The
Heart OF the Orient islam Lands"
othe' travel stories.
John Spargo, "The Jew and Ameri-
can Ideals" Russia as an American
Problem" etc.
DR. Isaac Jennings (Father) "Mem-
or ais of Century, Pub. 1869.
n. l.. St'llson--Compiler and Editor
of Monument Dedication and Centen-
nial of Vermont's admission as a
state. 1892.
Richard Bayhan-Humorous Stories
of Bennington-on-the-Hul.
Melvin Robinson and Com
piler Bennington Souvenir 1904