Selden Osmer, known as “Sy,” grew up with old-fashioned Vermont values, and he was true to those values all his life. He believed in living simply and within one’s means.
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Gertrude and Robert Mertens were a team. They shared an interest in art, a love of family, and a passion for the environment and helping others.
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Those who knew Ruth Colton Lewis as an adult knew a hard-working and devoted teacher. They likely never knew the other side of Ruth who, as a little girl, had a wild side and a taste for speed.
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Richard Marble was one of those remarkably gifted people who is remembered as much for his kind, gracious nature as his many skills and talents.
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Perley Collins Wheeler, or “PC” as he was affectionately called, was a local legend who sported a trademark bushy white beard.
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Olivia Van Lora Briggs Jaquith was the first librarian of the Norman Williams Public Library. She grew up on Rose Hill with her father, Luther Briggs, who was a horticulturalist.
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Olin grew up on a farm in Pomfret, Vermont. He recalls that in the spring, when he got “big enough to work, after school we did chores and came home at 4 o’clock… and I would plow with the oxen until dark. And we’d get up in the morning and plow in the morning and then at 8 o’clock start for school…”
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For many years Jack Moore, who has been described as “Everything good about Woodstock,” was a daily sight on Woodstock’s streets.
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Even those who didn’t know Kathryn Wendling personally, knew Kathy. For many years, she was a correspondent for the Vermont Standard, writing the paper’s most popular column, “Historically Speaking.”
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Henry Houghton was a Civil War soldier who wrote keen recollections of his time in the service. His memoir begins with the words “I was born in Woodstock, Vermont, June 16, 1843, and lived in that place until 19 years of age.
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Frank Teagle didn’t wait for a special day to practice kindness and goodwill toward others. Every day presented an opportunity, and every day, Frank found that opportunity and took it.
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Barbara Kaufman embraced life and translated it into art. She grew up in a family that owned a textile business, and she would often travel with them internationally in search of exotic fibers.
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Paul West was born in 1924 and grew up in Bridgewater, Vermont. He had five siblings, and his mother raised all six children on her own after Paul’s father was killed in a trucking accident.
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The name Marenda Briggs Randall does not appear in Henry Swan Dana’s History of Woodstock, despite the fact that Marenda was by all accounts one of the most accomplished women in Woodstock in the mid-1800s.
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Rupert Lewis, an inventive and industrious Vermonter, opened Prosper Ski Hill on his farm in 1937.
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Bessie Kidder Thomas, or “Aunt B,” as she was affectionately called, was born into a prominent Woodstock family. She graduated from Woodstock High School in 1904, and then from Wellesley College in 1909.
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In Woodstock, the name “Tom Hazard” is synonymous with the word “gentleman.” He treated everyone with kindness and respect. Tom grew up in Woodstock, his family having come to the area in the early 1800s.
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