Meredith Chronicles at Taylor Nov. 25
November 5, 2015Dr. Daniel Heyduk, an anthropologist and historian, presents a visual program on Meredith/Laconia history, based on his book “Meredith Chronicles,” Monday, Nov. 23 at 6:30 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested by calling 524-5600.
His book is a history of Meredith from the nomadic hunters of 12,000 years ago to the Twentieth Century. It includes land speculators, hardy settlers, mill-builders and mill-workers, advancing women, an almanac-maker and a hermit. It shows how people in Meredith and Laconia handled the “Year without a Summer,” the sheep boom, coming of the railroad and steamboats, tourists and summer campers and the Hurricane of 1938.
Doctor Heyduk was a college professor who lived with native people in Mexico and Bolivia; did archaeology in Ecuador and managed educational programs worldwide. He writes the “Passing Time” local history column in the Meredith News.
