Marlow historical society newsletters

MHS Winter 2025 Newsletter

Winter 2025
Remembering Lucian Webster; Revisiting old schoolhouses; Memories of a former Perkins School teacher; A Village Cemetery mystery; Marlow businesses, and more.



MHS Winter 2024 Newsletter

Winter 2024
Family Connections; History of the Marlow Babies Program; A gift of original Civil War letters by Corp. Ezra G. Huntley, and more. 

MHS Spring-Summer 2024 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2024
Marlow's historic homes, efforts to maintain them through time, Marjorie Whalen Smith's descriptive articles in The Keene Sentinel about old houses, and more.

MHS Fall 2024 Newsletter

Fall 2024
Remembering the restoration of Murray Hall; Betsey Brockway Huntley; the mystery of the Gee House replica; Macks in Marlow; and more.

MHS Winter 2023 Newsletter

Winter 2023
Celebrating Marlow's Anniversaries; A Lacework of Memories; Remembering Putnam Tyler; Harriet Dame, and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2023 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2023
Fire of 1916; The Britton family; History of the Marlow Fire Department from 1934-1947; Odd Fellows and the Adopt a Highway program; The Marlow Improvement Society; The Court of Common Pleas; and more.

MHS Fall 2023 Newsletter

Fall 2023
Marlow eateries through the years; Repairs needed for winter hearse seat; Dance Hall Days; new Facebook page; Marlow Busy Bodies; the Downing Mill; and more

MHS Winter 2022 Newsletter

Winter 2022 
Downing Family Genealogy; A Lindholm Family Love Story; From NYC to Marlow; Thoughts from the Town Office Dog, Moving the Jones Store, and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2022 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2022
A Giffin daguerreotype home from France; Marlow's Bed & Breakfast Grantwood House; Art Anderson, Marlow folk artist; Reminiscences of growing up in Marlow, and more.

MHS Fall 2022 Newsletter

Fall 2022
A Marlow Civil War journal rediscovered at the Dartmouth College library; Memories of Bayard Huntley from his daughter-of-the-heart; Upstate New York Huntley cousins visit Marlow; Finding peacefulness with the Marlow Profile; Newsletter reader shares memories of Marlow; Remembering Ed Thomas, and more. 


MHS Winter 2021 Newsletter

Winter 2021
Elgin Jones and the roots of Camp Takodah, Charlie Strickland's story, the last of the Downings, the story of the hearse house, and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2021 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2021
From the Garden State to the Granite State - the Ells and the Bradys, The Green House, Remembering the Feuers, Personal War Sketches - Part IV, Lydia M. Gustin, and more.

MHS Fall 2021 Newsletter

Fall 2021
From Temperance Hall to Methodist Chapel; Back to School 1973; A Chilling Discovery; Serendipity and Marlow Connections; American War Cemetery in Margraten; Museum Donations; and more.

MHS Winter 2020 Newsletter

Winter 2020
Village Cemetery 200 years old; All Souls' Day Cemetery Walk; Personal War Sketches - Part III; the Huntleys of Marlow, and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2020 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2020
Marlow's Medical History, When Marlow Saw the Light, Time Travel with Charlie (including "The True Story" of the Marlow brush truck), Marlow Epidemics Then and Now, Victorian Marlow, and more.

MHS Fall 2020 Newsletter

Fall 2020
Research and information gathering project that brings history alive in the Marlow Village Cemetery; the Hobby Horse 4-H club from the 1970's and 80's; A Profile in Courage from World War II; Donald Dunlap, A Legacy of Craftsmanship; Crossing the border to Jefts Corner in Stoddard, and more. 

MHS Winter 2019 Newsletter

Winter 2019
The Marlow Doughboys, The Tinker Family, Route 10: A Scenic Byway, and more

MHS Spring-Summer 2019 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2019
Personal War Sketches book, Time Travel with Charlie, Marlow's Bride's Album Quilt, the old Perkins Store, and Remembering Virgil Huntley.

MHS Fall 2019 Newsletter

Fall 2019
History of the Marlow Library; Summer Memories; Personal War Sketches - Part II; Bridal Exhibit; Farley Ink and more.

MHS Winter 2018 Newsletter

Winter 2018
Marlow Cornet Band, the history of the police department from 1889-2017, Horace Gee and the Charlestown Bank Caper, respectfully remembering Windy Jim, and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2018 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2018
Talking Machines in Marlow; How Tin Shop Pond Got its Name; The Phelps of Marlow; the 1988 baseball team, and more.

MHS Fall 2018 Newsletter

Fall 2018
The five founders of the Marlow Historical Society, Greene's Landing, the old fire pumper and more.

MHS Winter 2017 Newsletter

Winter 2017
Roddy Andrews, Marlow's police chief from the 1930s - 1960s, the Sand Pond Gun Shop, Marlow's Dillant connection, updates on the Murray Hall restoration project, and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2017 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2017
Francis Wetherbee, Marlow's first and youngest Civil War casualty, the history of the Marlow Ground Observer Corps during World War II, and MHS's first Pop Up Museum.

MHS Fall 2017 Newsletter

Fall 2017
Marlow Village Church and its steeple, memories of Vilas High School 1935-1966 (including yearbook photos!), tidbits from Marlow history (do you know what Galloping Gayla was?), a Sand Pond story, and more.

MHS Winter 2016 Newsletter

Winter 2016
History of the Christmas Trees Inn, including memories of those who worked there when it was an inn, find out how some local sites got their names, and learn about one of the world’s most celebrated prima donnas of the nineteenth century who was born in Marlow and was a descendant of one of Marlow's oldest families.

MHS Spring-Summer 2016 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2016
History and the people of Marlow's special Sand Pond community, publication of a new book by the 3rd and 4th grade students at John D. Perkins Academy "Four Days of Fury", and more.

MHS Fall 2016 Newsletter

Fall 2016
Stories about John D. Perkins, Sr., for whom our school is named, Solomon Gee, one of Marlow's the first settlers, the first female County Register of Probate in the United States, Marlow's Ella Fannie Gee, and other interesting facts.

MHS Winter 2016 Newsletter

Winter 2015
The winter edition of the Historical Society newsletter is dedicated to Joe Feurer, who passed away January of this year. You can read his article on the immigrant experience in Marlow, along with stories on the progress of the Murray Hall restoration, the granting of a LCHIP grant, and the first car to come to Marlow.

MHS Spring-Summer 2015 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2015
"Madcap May" Yohe, the Hope Diamond and Marlow; the upcoming Sunday, June 28 Finger Food Potluck Meeting at 4pm in Murray Hall; Murray Hall renovation updates; and whether or not there is an elephant buried on Marlow Hill.

MHS Fall 2015 Newsletter

Fall 2015
Read about a time when Marlow had 8 school districts, each with its own one room school house, learn about a Marlow connection to Quebec, read a mystery letter written on birch bark in 1926, and see before and after photos of the ongoing restorations inside Murray Hall, new home of the Historical Society.

MHS Winter 2015 Newsletter

Winter 2014
Life on a Marlow Dairy Farm, Tidbits from Marlow's Surprising Genealogy, the Marlow Soldier's Memorial, and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2014 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2014
Silent Auction in July, a story about North Cemetery, the upcoming photo exhibit in Murray Hall in August, tidbits from Marlow's genealogy, and try to guess the identity of a Marlow fisherman.

MHS Fall 2014 Newsletter

Fall 2014
Have you figured out the identity of the Marlow fisherman from the summer newsletter? If not, the answer is in the fall edition, along with a late president's visit, and the return of the Marlow Players.

MHS Winter 2013 Newsletter

Winter 2013
Learn about Edgewood Park, Mr. Bayard Stafford Huntley, and the recent Perkins School Marlow history tour

MHS Spring-Summer 2013 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2013

Dr. Marshall Perkins, Civil War Surgeon from Marlow, The Ladies' Benevolent Society of Marlow, and Marlow Civil War Muster Certificates.

MHS Fall 2013 Newsletter

Fall 2013
Focus on Murray Hall, A Child's Christmas in Marlow, Jones Hall Curtains, Marlow on Stage, and more.

MHS Winter 2012 Newsletter

Winter 2012
Tin Shop Pond Fence; Every Bequest Tells a Story; Notes from the Archive; Lecture: "Runaway Wives", and more.

MHS Spring-Summer 2012 Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2012
The Tinker House on Washington Pond Road, Bits and Pieces from the Archive, Cora Comes to Marlow, and Roy and Roxie Forbes.

MHS Fall 2012 Newsletter

Fall 2012 
Elgin Jones and the History of Marlow book, A Tinker Tale, Master Plan Discussion Meeting, and more