Bethel’s Modern Barn once prosperous canned corn factory

BETHEL — A kernel of Bethel’s history was sown in today’s Modern Barn at 19 Summer St. In the building that is now home to the upscale restaurant, there was once a thriving corn canning factory that kept Bethel’s farmers busy and prosperous from 1880 until 1926. When Fritz Tyler moved his canning building from […]

Photos: Mailbox art in Bethel and beyond

Whether your mailbox is an art statement or merely gains status by the element of functionality it exudes, unusual mailboxes abound. Here is a sampling of what is you may see on your trek to work or while out for a Sunday drive.   Photos by Rose Lincoln  

Pie Night is Aug. 17 in Hanover

HANOVER — Expect to eat dinner and dessert at Hanover’s Pie Night! At 6 p.m. Aug. 17, homemade pies of every kind will be served in the shelter beside the Roberts Library. Director Lynne Ramsey said to expect pizza pies, quiche, fruit pies, and maybe even shepherd’s pie which was one of last year’s choices. […]

Photo: Simple Angles

In this ‘cultural island’ in the mountains of Maine

BETHEL — Psychologist Kurt Lewin, one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational and applied psychology,  and the founder of the National Training Labs (NTL) chose Bethel to administer his training, but died of a heart attack before his arrival in 1946. Despite Lewin’s sudden death, the work continued as planned starting in 1947. NTL […]

Round-up of area construction

Summer construction is in full swing.

Mornings at the Museum

There are no cell phones or anything electronic at this camp, but the children don’t seem to mind.

Fighter jets train over Bethel

The planes are most often F-15 fighter jets flown by Air National Guard pilots from Westfield, Massachusetts. For a few weeks each year, F-35 jets fly over from South Burlington, Vermont on their way to the coast.

Painting Philbrook

Mainely Provisions opens