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You might know her name from Colchester's Fanny Allen Hospital, which was established in 1894 by six Sisters from the Religious Hospitalers of St. Joseph.

In 1811, she took her final vows became a nun, spending the rest of her life as a nurse, caring for the wounded during the War of 1812, and ultimately died of consumption in 1819 at the age of 35.

While there, she claims to have had a supernatural encounter, and ended up converting to Catholicism (notable, given her father's skepticism of religion and at a time when Catholicism was rare in Vermont) and entered the Religious Hospitalers of St. Joseph as a novice in 1808.

She studied at the Middlebury Seminary, and in 1807 she traveled to Montreal to study French, where stayed with the French Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame.

The answer: improvements to the historic Spaulding School building! We're working to repair the drains, masonry on the front of the building, and the roof to prevent water infiltration.

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This item is from 1919 and was a giveaway from Cabot Creamery during the Cabot Heritage Festival held on June 19, 1999. It came with a small cart that said "A 1919 penny for your thoughts, CABOT / Vermont / Dairy Farmer Owned since 1919"

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Here's an item from our collection from that era: a red cotton promotional handkerchief for the Garfield/Arthur campaign, featuring portraits of both men. It was likely made in 1880, and was owned by Jonathan Nothrup of Fairfield, who babysat Arthur as a child.

Here's one of his paintings that he produced: "The Craftsman," commissioned by Rock of Ages and painted in 1962. It's now in the collection of the Shelburne Museum.

He and his family moved to Arlington, Vermont in 1939, where he lived and worked until 1953. Throughout his time there, he used a number of his neighbors as models for his paintings, and drew on the town and state for inspiration for his work.

Born in New York City in 1894, Rockwell became one of the best-known American artists of the 20th Century (particularly for the covers he illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post and for paintings such as Rosie the Riveter, and the Four Freedoms series).