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The Mellon Plan: The Legislative Fight for the First Supply-Side Tax Reforms

By The Honorable French Hill Tax reform isn’t easy, but it is possible. Even dramatic tax reform. Today, when many doubt that proposition, it’s useful to look back at another […]

Calvin Coolidge and the Post-Armistice Chlorine Gas Campaign

By Robert M. Klein, M.D., Columbia University Irving Medical Center On May 18, 1924, First Congregational Church in Washington held its regular service. But this Sunday, one important congregant was […]

GRACE: ON THE AIR

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The Great 1928 Budget Debate

We tend to project our own assumptions about party positions onto events long past. For example, we assume that Democrats always advocated for increased government spending, at least more so […]

Six Decades of Love Began at Plymouth Notch

October 15, 2015

Carolyn&Frank Baker
Carolyn and Frank Baker in front of the Coolidge cabin where they spent their honeymoon.

By Diane Kemble

I had the pleasure of meeting Carolyn and Frank Baker at the September Antique Apple Festival at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site. Carolyn and Frank’s attachment to the Site goes back many years to their honeymoon in 1956, when they stayed in the middle tourist cabin. Married on August 5, they were beginning their travels around Vermont and New York State and stopped by Plymouth Notch on August 6, 1956. Lodging in the cabin cost $7, and their ham dinner at the Wilder House restaurant was $5. “You could have fit it in a tea cup.” Frank saaid, so he ate some raw hot dogs when they returned to the cabin.

Frank went on to work at the Maplewood Dairy Farm in Fair Haven, and 18 years at General Electric. After making some suggestions about the roads in his town, Frank went on to serve as the Superintendent of Highways for twelve years in Whitehall, NY.

When I caught up with them later in the day, they mentioned that fiddler Adam Boyce had just played “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” for them.

We hope to see you next year, Carolyn and Frank, for your 60th Anniversary!

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