In The Woodstock Independent’s continuing quest to have readers identify former gas stations around town, intrepid Photo Detective Maggie Crane presents this circa 1967 photo. The Mobil station, operated by brothers Al and Chuck Mansfield, replaced a brick service station on the site, dating to 1926. The old brick station operated as Boyce Brothers from […]
The Woodstock Independent’s monthly Photo Detective feature began as a way for our intrepid Photo Detective, Maggie Crane, to identify or add information for historical photos in the collection at the Woodstock Public Library. This year, Crane turned her skills to the vintage photos reprinted in the annual calendar published by Copy Express. With the […]
By Heather Vosburgh news@thewoodstockindependent.com The Dick Tracy Museum is gone, but the police detective from the comics pages lives on in a display at the Woodstock Public Library. The museum in downtown Woodstock closed in 2008, and 12 years later the library display was put together with many pieces of donated memorabilia related to the […]
Last month’s Photo Detective picture of a wedding was solved with the help of the bride and her maid of honor. We’ll let the bride tell the story as she related it to Maggie Crane.“My name is Lori Wilcox Matthew, and the wedding photo is from my wedding to Scott Matthew in 1980. The wedding was […]
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Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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