Granville Babies Compete at Fair, 1929
September 28, 1929 newspaper photo of Granville mothers and their babies competing at the fair. A month later the stock market would collapse, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression.
Digital Image: Created by Granville Library Historical Room and Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation.
28 Sep 1929
Original loaned for digitization by Darcy and Julie Clifford, 2019
"Country Store" Howard Norton Cook Etching of Gibbons Store, 1929
Howard Norton Cook (1901 - 1980) was born in Springfield and enjoyed visiting Granville early in his career as an artist. He spent most of career in the American Southwest and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<br /><br />He created the "Country Store" etching as a young man in 1929. His reference to the view from an upstairs window suggests he probably stayed at the Wilcox Hotel which was located directly across Granby Road from the store. To learn more about the Wilcox Hotel <a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/196">CLICK HERE</a>.<br /><br />It is also quite possible that his reference to occupied coffins in the basement is true since the Gibbons family owned the store and also served as the local undertakers.<br /><br />To learn more about the fascinating life of Howard Cook <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cook">CLICK HERE</a>.<br /><br />To learn more about the Granville Country Store and compare old photos to Howard Cook's etching <a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/149">CLICK HERE</a>. Can you spot examples of artistic license?<br /><br />The store depicted in Cook's 1929 etching was destroyed by fire in December 1934 and was replaced by the present, smaller structure. Photos of the destruction can be seen <a href="https://granvillehistory.net/items/show/149">HERE</a>.
Granville Community Fair Programs
Event programs for the Granville Community Fair. These programs are digitized and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">available in full at the Granville Library page at Internet Archive</span>. See links to full text by year below. A few years are missing. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">If you have a program for a missing year the Historical Room would like to borrow it for digitization</span>.<br /><br />A link to each available year and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">the full text</span> of each program follows:<br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/thirdannualfair1929unse">1929</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/fourthannualcomm1930unse">1930</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/fifthannualcommu1931unse">1931</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/sixthannualcommu1932unse">1932</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/seventhannualcom1933unse">1933</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/tenthannualcommu1936unse">1936</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/eleventhannualco1937unse">1937</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/twelfthannualcom1938unse">1938</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/thirteenthannual1939unse">1939</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/fourteenthannual1940unse">1940</a>
1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940
Mable Root Henry Historical Museum, Granville, MA.