Historic Highlights

This page features various photos and artifacts preserved and provided by the Historic Preservation Committee.

Organ and Choir from the 1940's

organ 1949

The organ was 105 years old when taken out about 1962 and sold to a private home in Connecticut. This photo was taken sometime in the 1940's, when Alan B. Shepard Sr. was the organist. Shown are the choir members at the time.
Top row, left to right
: Bart Shepard, Richard Van Dyne, Marian Venner, Ruth Harding, Edith Black, Mrs. Ned Reynolds, Mrs. John Gaskill, Murial Bain, Dottie Blake, Joan Curtis, Harold Venner, Rev. John Gaskill.
Bottom row: Richard McAllister True, Elanor Bliss Murphy, Thelma True Mansfield, Paul Gaskill, Helen Reynolds, John Gaskill, Ruth Reynolds, June Reynolds, Charles Reynolds.
Photo given by Richard True, Sr.