Word: selectman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mascoma Mill. This mill, also in Lebanon, is presumably another Goldfine property. In 1955, Textron Inc., then Mascoma's owner, served notice that it planned either to dismantle or sell Mascoma. Into the picture stepped Lebanon's First Selectman Joseph Perley, another Goldfine friend; Perley was a prime civic mover in reducing local taxes on Goldfine local properties, with the result that Lebandale Mills, listing assets of nearly $1,000,000, paid only $2,528 in town taxes last year. Perley said he knew of an Ohio textile firm that would buy Mascoma-although he declined to reveal...
...original "Our Town"--from Thornton Wilder's famous play--was painted as the ideal site for a relocated university by Paul Cummings, Jr., editor of the weekly Peterborough Transcript, Mrs. Florence Connell, the town bookkeeper, and selectman Forrest Mercer...
...from New York for a weekend at the out-of-the-way small town of Tunxis, Conn., it is to meet the family of Eben, a moody young fellow she has taken up with in the big city. What Hester and Eben have not been told is that Selectman Matthew Avered, Eben's father, has organized a two-day drive to rid the neighborhood of a plague of wood-chucks. Nothing will do but that they take their place in the beaters' line. Hester is no mental ball of fire, but a few things quickly become clear...
...Selectman Matthew, though they take his orders, 2) dynamic Matthew Avered is twice the man his sensitive son is, 3) she wants the older man, not the younger man, to make love...
Matthew ignores her advances, but in their absence the marmot drive has begun to go badly. At roundup's end, only 37 animals have been corralled instead of the hundreds the selectman promised. Besides, someone has spied him and Hester together, and he is accused of attempted rape...