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The story of Greenbank's Hollow

We might wonder today how we could forget a covered bridge? We don’t really, they are in books and on maps. (pick yours up here) and people like me help keep them alive by telling the stories that need to be told. View in my new Gallery… Danville Vermont Mills Around southern Danville, there were several mills, Harvey’s Hollow, Morse’s Mills, and Greenbank’s Hollow. I think I may have talked…

Rachel’s Aunt Lilla (remind me to go on a tangent about her sometime because Lilla is amazing) mentioned in a letter I read today that, while in NYC, Grandma hit it off with Fanny Garrison Villard (suffragette, co-founder of the NAACP and daughter of William Lloyd Garrison) when the conversation “fell upon anti-slavery days”.

Mrs. Villard was so taken by Grandma that she “seemed really to fall in love” with her and threw a "charming lunch party” for her and Lilla a few days later.

After looking into it a bit more it turns out that Grandma was also from the same small town and attended the same grammar school as Thaddeus Stevens and Oliver Johnson, who was a noted social reformer, abolitionist newspaper editor and aide to William Lloyd Garrison.