Regular board meeting at 7:00 PM in the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library VT History Room.

Saturday, March 22nd at 2pm at DAML Community Room.

Dangerous Characters: The Life and Crime of Delia and Charlie Potter. Discover Williston's most sensational criminals and their role in the 1865 killing of Sally Griswold, who had gotten rich in the Gold Rush.

Biography: Elizabeth A. Allen's connection to Williston is through her father Richard Allen, former teacher in Williston schools and author of several books about town history. She first wrote about the Potters and Griswolds in a series of local history columns for the Williston Observer. Her further research on the Potters was sponsored in part by a research grant from the Williston Historical Society. She just published "The Mysterious Girl-Boy: Gender, Sexuality, and Madness in Victorian Vermont" in Vermont HIstory and "Letters to and from Santa in Victorian Vermont" in the Ephemera Journal. She is currently researching Wells Richardson Company's marketing to children in the 1890s, trans life in Vermont at the turn of the twentieth century, and the connections between antebellum women's cross-dressing and political activism. She is writing a book about the Potters and the Griswolds.