This is a clip I have...I think it is complete...there may be more at the end...I don't have a year!! Circa 1931. BATV "Savery Family To Follow Century Tradition Sunday Special to The Herald WALLINGFORD, Oct. 13. - Miss Belle Savery, sister of H. B. Savery, selectman of Clarendon, has issued invitations to the Savery family reunion to be held Sunday, October 18. This is the eighth year that Miss Savery and her sister, Mattie, have had the reunion. Until that time, their mother had had it for 52 years. It was a tradition in the family in their grandmother's time, and dates back for over a century. Small at first, it has grown until there were 33 members of the family present last year. A similar number is expected this fall. The guests will include Mr. and Mrs. William Savery and family and Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Eddy and family of Rutland and Miss Cornelia Savery of Mount Holly. A number of the nieces and nephews are married and will bring their children with them. The first reunion of which there is a record were the ones held at Ephraim Savery's in Clarendon Springs on Thanksgiving Day. After the death of Mrs. Ephraim Savery, Mrs. William Savery acted as family hostess for more than 50 years in Clarendon Springs, in Castleton where the family lived for a few years, and in Shrewbury where they lived for 40 years. The Misses Savery and their brother, Harris, have had the reunion in their home on the state road near Wallingford for the last eight years. The time of the reunion was changed from Thanksgiving to mid-October a few years ago. It is easier for the family to get together at this season. It is a more popular time with the children, for they can play outdoors and leave their elders in their reminisnces undisturbed."

I lived in Wallingford from birth to 23 years. When I used to walk to the Post Office, which was then in the building which now houses Sal's Pizza and Hands of Hope Thrift Store (this was the PO), across from the Gilbert Hart Library, I passed Mrs. Bellany's boarding house. One of her boarders was an elderly man named Harrison Savery. I think I must have talked to him every day for several years. He was a special man. I am thinking he may be the " Harris" Savery in this article. The timing of this article is really quite wonderful. Several posts to the list on the Old Stone Shop and others jogged my memory as well. The world was very different when I was a child from the way it is all, and I am sure it is for everyone on the list. When I was five years old I used to walk to the Post Office for my parents, all by myself, or so I thought. But not really - as Mrs. Regimbald in the brick house next to us watched me out her window, a few houses up the street Ranse and Emma Towsley would keep an eye on me, then Mrs. Bellany at the boarding house, until I got to the post office. I can still remember Mrs. Regimbald tapping on the window to let me know I had dropped some mail. Regarding the Old Stone Shop - yes, Cornelia Tarbell did own it for years, but I am thinking it is at least ten years since she owned it, probably longer. As you pass by the shop today you will see that the current owner is adding an addition, not in brick or stone, to the building, which will become four apartments. The appearance of the building is quite different from the early years. Another building in town has been razed - this is the American Legion building, which was constructed in the 1940's. The building had been given to the Wallingford Historical Society by the Legion (Ralph H. Pickett Post # 52). The Historical society was going to refurbish it and make it their home, but the costs were excessive and the building was deemed to be not worth it and so it was knocked down and everything carried away and dumped. The area is being seeded for grass right now, for a Memorial Park for War Veterans from Wallingford. Several people are crafting a list of Wallingford Veterans, with the criteria that the soldier had to have been from Wallingford to qualify for his name to be added to the list. And also much discussion about what to name the Park. Darrell, I hope you won't mind the post. The Misses Savery and their brother, Harris, have had the reunion in> their home on the state road near Wallingford for the last eight years.> The time of the reunion was changed from Thanksgiving to mid-October a> few years ago. It is easier for the family to get together at this> season. It is a more popular time with the children, for they can play> outdoors and leave their elders in their reminisnces undisturbed." _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline