Article: `200 Years' chronicles 2 towns' history.

Byline: Ed Patnaude

COLUMN: So I've Heard

Staff in the Bartlett High School Library recently came across a 70-year-old publication - "200 Years of Progress" - that has created quite a stir there, even in the office of Principal Michael F. Hackenson.

"It's all about the town," says Mr. Hackenson. Published in 1939 by the former Times Publishing Co., it's a municipal image of sorts, or more explicitly, a Webster-Dudley profile from the years leading up to World War II.

It is about the downtown when Webster had a commercial center, town government when large numbers of voters participated in elections, job-creating industries when ...

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