Comments on: Northern Forest Heritage Park http://www.postcardsfromberlin.com/mailbox/berlin-nh/1969/ Postcards from Berlin BETA Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:33:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: KS12 http://www.postcardsfromberlin.com/mailbox/berlin-nh/1969/comment-page-1/#comment-133 KS12 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:33:46 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromberlin.com/?p=1969#comment-133 Hi Jerry! We only just now got your contribution due to a bug in our website's notification system. Thanks so much for this additional information! We'd love to hear some stories about your days working the paper mill. We'll definitely be getting in touch with Paul soon. That DVD sounds like a fascinating resource. I wonder if the filmmakers who made it would be interested in participating in our project... Greetings from Berlin, Gabe & Pati Hi Jerry!

We only just now got your contribution due to a bug in our website’s notification system. Thanks so much for this additional information! We’d love to hear some stories about your days working the paper mill. We’ll definitely be getting in touch with Paul soon. That DVD sounds like a fascinating resource. I wonder if the filmmakers who made it would be interested in participating in our project…

Greetings from Berlin,
Gabe & Pati

]]> By: Jerry_Boucher http://www.postcardsfromberlin.com/mailbox/berlin-nh/1969/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Jerry_Boucher Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:41:13 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromberlin.com/?p=1969#comment-130 I do not know anyone personally involved with this project, although it is a fascinating collection. I have several uncles pictured in the project. I was born in Berlin in 1950 and grew up in Gorham which is the adjoining town. The area is often referred to as the Berlin-Gorham area. Although the two communities are fairly different their life is well intertwined. While I now live in Manchester, two hours south, much of my extended family lived and still lives in the area, and I frequently travel there. The area is still "home." Many in my family were employed at the Brown Paper Company, as was I during the summers while I attended the University of New Hampshire. One person you might want to contact is Paul "Poof" Tardif. He writes a history of Berlin column in the Berlin Daily Sun, which usually appears in the Thursday edition. Berlin, New Hampshire is an interesting city with a lot of history. It is the only "city" in northern New Hampshire. With the decline of the paper industry it is a place in transition to a new future. There was an oral history video recently released entitled "At the Rivers Edge" It is available on DVD, although I'm sure it is not available in the PAL system for Europe, if that still matters. It is a 90 minute account of the history of the city told by many residents. – Jerry Boucher I do not know anyone personally involved with this project, although it is a fascinating collection. I have several uncles pictured in the project. I was born in Berlin in 1950 and grew up in Gorham which is the adjoining town. The area is often referred to as the Berlin-Gorham area. Although the two communities are fairly different their life is well intertwined. While I now live in Manchester, two hours south, much of my extended family lived and still lives in the area, and I frequently travel there. The area is still “home.” Many in my family were employed at the Brown Paper Company, as was I during the summers while I attended the University of New Hampshire.
One person you might want to contact is Paul “Poof” Tardif. He writes a history of Berlin column in the Berlin Daily Sun, which usually appears in the Thursday edition.
Berlin, New Hampshire is an interesting city with a lot of history. It is the only “city” in northern New Hampshire. With the decline of the paper industry it is a place in transition to a new future.
There was an oral history video recently released entitled “At the Rivers Edge” It is available on DVD, although I’m sure it is not available in the PAL system for Europe, if that still matters. It is a 90 minute account of the history of the city told by many residents.

– Jerry Boucher

]]> By: KS12 http://www.postcardsfromberlin.com/mailbox/berlin-nh/1969/comment-page-1/#comment-129 KS12 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:57:26 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromberlin.com/?p=1969#comment-129 In our research we found out about Berlin, New Hampshire's history of paper production when we stumbled across the "Beyond Brown Paper" project (see the Local Links sidebar to the left for the link to the project). Do you know anyone from that project who might be interested in collaborating with Postcards from Berlin? In our research we found out about Berlin, New Hampshire’s history of paper production when we stumbled across the “Beyond Brown Paper” project (see the Local Links sidebar to the left for the link to the project). Do you know anyone from that project who might be interested in collaborating with Postcards from Berlin?

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