BY CAROLE KLEMENTThe old Dunbarton Cobbler Shop returned to its hometown on Friday, Oct. 31, after being located for more than 50 years in Goffstown. Dating back to before 1850, the cobbler shop was one of 26 known cobblers in the Dunbarton area. It is thought that Thomas Sylvester Wilson, the original shop owner, was able to maintain his ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Dunbarton’s town historian, Bud Noyes, was in the process of compiling information for his third book when he died in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the age of 84. Noyes lived in what we now know as Dunbarton for most of his life, and prior to that lived in a part of present-day Hooksett, ...

The Hadley Heritage, a late blooming white daffodil, with a yellow-pink cup and ruffled edge is the 2007 offering for the Dunbarton Garden Club’s third annual daffodil sale. The bulb commemorates Alice Hadley, who wrote an extensive history of Dunbarton chronicling the town’s development from the pre-revolutionary period until 1966. ...

BY DAVE CHOATE For once, a hearse was a cause for celebration. On Saturday, Aug. 11, town officials and members of the hearse restoration committee dedicated Dunbarton’s newly revamped hearse and brand-new hearse house. About 100 residents and volunteers turned up at Page’s Cemetery for the dedication, information and ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR After nearly three years, members of the Dunbarton Hearse Restoration Committee are seeing their hard work come to fruition. After the recent completion of the rebuilt and refurbished hearse, which was lost in a  fire 50 years ago, the town has constructed a building at Page’s Cemetery to house the historic ...

Farm Day at the Dunbarton Historical Society Museum and Blacksmith Shop will take place Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hear the sound of a clanging anvil, the puff of the bellows and the tap, tap, tap of a blacksmith’s hammer in the Blacksmith Shop. Try your hand with antique farm tools. Watch demonstrations of heritage arts ...

Members of the Dunbarton Historical Awareness Committee recently welcomed members of the Dunbarton Historical Society to a special event, as part of their monthly meeting, held at the Dunbarton Town Offices. Present for the Historical Awareness Committee were town historian Harlan “Bud” Noyes, selectmen Rep. Les Hammond, Ken Swayze, ...

The Piscataquog Watershed Association and the Dunbarton Conservation Commission will co-sponsor a winter tracking walk Saturday, March 3, at 9:30 a.m., at the Kuncanowet Natural Area in Dunbarton.    Join PWA member and volunteer Jamie Bodwell for a walk that is becoming an annual favorite for expert and novice trackers. ...