Bethel museum shop to hold holiday sale

BETHEL - With the holidays just around the corner, the Bethel Historical Society is pleased to announce that it will again offer a 20 percent discount on regularly priced items in its Museum Shop from November 26 through the entire month of December. The 20 percent discount will apply to in-store sales as well as on-line purchases, and will be available to members and nonmembers alike (regular member 10 percent discount will not apply for this period only). If you’ve been waiting to buy that special book or gift for someone you love (or for yourself), plan to take advantage of this limited-time sale. Museum Shop hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

Among the books that will be available at the discounted price are the following: "Silhouettes: How to Cut for Fun & Money," written by Ann and Deidre Woodward; "Bethel, Maine: A Brief History," by Society Associate Director Stanley R. Howe; "Sunday River: Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future," by former Sunday River Ski Patrol director David Irons (available to members and nonmembers for this limited time only, FMI call 824-2908); “Write Quick: War and a Woman's Life in Letters, 1836-1867," transcribed and edited by Bethel native Roberta Gibson Pevear of Exeter, NH - a descendant of Eliza Bean Foster, the main character of this book - and poet and author Ann Chandonnet of Vale, NC; "Up Bethel Hill: The Cookbook of the Bethel Historical Society;" "Logging Railroads of New Hampshire's North Country," including a chapter on the Wild River Railroad, by Bill Gove; "Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900," by David L. Richards; a second, expanded edition of "A History of Maine-Built Automobiles & Motorized Vehicles 1834-1934, with a History of Maine License Plates," by Society members Richard and Nancy Fraser; "Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s," by Bunny McBride and Dr. Harald E. L. Prins; "Trouble on the Tracks: Grand Trunk Railway of New England Tragedies," by Jeff Holt; "Life on the Farm and in the Village: South Paris, Maine 1910-1925," edited by Jeffrey R. Parsons; "Once Upon a Memory: Growing Up at Bosebuck," by Polly Ann Hewey Johnston; a new revised edition of "A History of Rangeley Hotels and Camps," by Gary Priest; "Nature and Renewal: Wild River Valley & Beyond," by Dean Bennett and "The White Mountains: Alps of New England," by Society Executive Director Randall Bennett.