Sunday, June 11 — Cavendish — Born most likely in West Africa, enslaved, and a soldier in the AmericanRevolutionary War, Peter Tumbo spent the last 40 years of his life in Cavendish. He was married when he moved to Cavendish, […]
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Cavendish Historical Society’s annual Phineas Gage walk and talk to take place Sept. 11
Sunday, Sept. 11 — CAVENDISH — “Horrible accident. Phineas P. Gage, a foreman on the Rutland Railroads at Cavendish, was preparing for a blast on Wednesday, when the powder exploded, carrying through his head an iron instrument, an inch and […]
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Cavendish talks on former resident, Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sunday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m.—CAVENDISH— Dec. 11, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Author of such books as “Gulag Archipelago, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” and “Cancer Ward,” Solzhenitsyn […]