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751.  Hazard Letters No. 208. 

752.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 12.  Certificate of completion of Switchboard Course for Martha Pratt, Central Business School, New York City, no date.

753.  Hazard Letters No. 209. 

754.  Hazard Letters No. 210. 

755.  Hazard Letters No. 211. 

756.  Hazard Letters No. 212. 

757.  Hazard Letters No. 213. 

758.  Hazard Letters No. 214. 

759.  Hazard Letters No. 215.  Last of the Hazard Letters.

760.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 13.  "R. O. Hazard Diving  1920"

761.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 14.  "R. O. Hazard Diving  1920"

762.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 15.  "R. O. Hazard Diving  1920"

763.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 16.  "S. L. Hazard Store 1922"

764.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 17  "Store 1922"

765.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 18.  Left:  "S. L. H. 1928  Jane Pratt".  Right:  "Edgerton's 1922".

766.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 19.  Broadside for auction, Martha Pratt Warren, Wednesday, May 6, no year.

767.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 20.  Obituary of Martha Jane Pratt, age 39, Sept. 13, 1954?  (Martha B. Warren's daughter.)

768.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 21.  Newspaper clippings including obituaries, land transfers, and marriage of Martha Jane Pratt.  No dates. 

769.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 22.  Auction announcement, contents of old Hazard Store, auctioneer Mrs. Martha Pratt, no year, ca. 1926.

770.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 23.  First page of Slate Lodge Register, 1905, starting May 6, listing guests staying in the Slate Lodge.

771.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 24.  Slate Lodge Register, August 1914, listing "Mr. & Mrs. Delehanty" and "Edward Delehanty," along with numerous other guests. 

772.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 25.  Slate Lodge Register, page titled May 29, 1919, listing Philip Delehanty, June 30, along with numerous other guests and movements of people to and fro.

773.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 26.  Page from scrapbook (same book with the Slate Lodge Register), with wedding announcements, including that of Martha A. Warren and Arthur Pratt of April 16, 1910.

774.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 27.  Page from same scrapbook with clippings:  "Mrs. Martha B. Pratt of Castleton was awarded a divorce from Arthur E. Pratt, for willful desertion.  The decree to become absolute on November 9, 1940."  Second clipping:  "Marriage of Mrs. Martha B. Pratt of West Castleton, Vt., to Frederick P. Warren of Yonkers."  June 15, 1940?  1948?

775.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 28.  Clippings from newspapers, mostly from the society pages, concerning major events in Martha's family, 1912-1927.

776.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 29.  Clippings from newspapers, 1911.

777.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 30.  Clippings from newspapers, including one of 5 March 1928 from the Albany Knickerbocker, reporting a major fire at the "$40,000 Pratt Home."

778.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 31.  Clippings from newspapers, 1931-32.

779.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 32.  Clippings from newspapers, 1929-31, including one titled "Good Road Built from Fair Haven to W. Castleton," n.d., ca. 1929.

780.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 33.  Clippings from newspapers, 1932-33.

781.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 34.  Clippings from newspapers, 1936.

782.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 35.  Newspaper clipping:  "Unique Pratt Farm 'Factory' Produces Millions of Canned Tomatoes," Oct. 2, 1936, featuring a photo of Art Pratt and a description of his huge tomato farm outside Albany.

783.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 36.  Newspaper clippings, 1941-1954, including obituary of Martha Jane Pratt, September 13, 1954, and of Arthur E. Pratt, 1950.

784.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 37.  Newspaper clippings and wedding announcement of Martha Jane Pratt; includes letter to the editor by Martha B. Warren of Oct. 7, 1955.

785.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 38.  Obituary of Dr. A. Palmer Benedict, 60, "Physician in Fair Haven 33 Years," January 12, 1956.

786.  Martha B. Warren Papers No. 39.  Photograph of Lake Bomoseen, probably from near the Hazard's front door, no date, ca. 1900.

787.  Martha B. Warren Papers, No. 40.  Photograph of portrait of Martha A. Ballard, ca. 1904, hanging on the wall of the Hazard House.

788.  Martha B. Warren papers, No. 41.  Same portrait, closer view.

789.  Martha B. Warren Papers, No. 42.  Last of this batch of her papers.  The back side of the portrait, above.  The lesson?  Always check the back of wall portraits!  Some crucial information here!  A very cool find.  All these photos (Nos. 512-789) from Sun Aug 12.

Moving on to the Castleton Town Offices Basement and Places Beyond . . .

790.  Campsite No. 39!  Not as nice as next to the lake, but a fine site all the same.

791.  Mr. Jon Dodd, Castleton Town Manager, finding himself astounded at the rapid pace of progress in the auxiliary basement vault.

792.  The mess in the basement vault that is no more.

793.  And what a mess it was!

794.   The pace of progress . . .

795.  Organizing stuff on the makeshift but eminently sturdy table set up by Jon Dodd.

796.  Looking from the door of the vault back toward the stairs one descends to enter the dreaded basement.

797.  Cleverly and surreptitiously copying photos from the camera to the laptop in the early evening on the little bench behind the bathrooms, within spitting distance from campsite no. 39.

798.  Grand List, 1859, letters C and D.  The first of many such delightful photos!

799.  Lake Bomoseen, from the public beach, towards sunset.

800.  Same time & place, different view.  This must be Monday eve, Aug 13.