THE WAY WE WERE – March 1909
The little girl in the red dress holding a nosegay of self-heal is Nancy Hunting, my great grandmother. I like to think some itinerant artist painted it to pay for his lodging at the Hunting Tavern. Born in Hamden in 1830, Nancy came to Andes in 1837 with her parents who bought the tavern on the stagecoach route from Kingston to Delhi.
ACS CELEBRATES ANDES DAIRY FARMS
By Buffy Calvert
A standing-room-only crowd crammed into the school gym on Saturday night, January 24th, to watch a video. Fiddle music played from the stage, lively, but scarcely heard above the hubbub of neighbors greeting each other on the 3ยบ F. evening.
WE APPLAUD: DIANE GRANGER KRICK
By Buffy Calvert
Diane Granger Krick lifts her graceful hands. The musicians raise their eyes. Her face lights in a “You can do it!” smile.
WE APPLAUD: TYLER CHARLES & LESLEY MADELINE FRYE GRAY
By Buffy Calvert
We know them as master artisans-he with wood, she with a needle-who live at the top of Dibble Road in a house they built themselves.