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Publications and Gifts

 

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Books

  By My Kin:  Stories of Foster ...


Collected by Margery I. Matthews

  Historical narratives and town trivia.

$4.50

The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
Stores in Foster: 19th - 21st Century

 

Pamphlet  produced by the Foster Preservation Society.

$0.50

  Chronicles of Foster

 

  Stories by Margery I. Matthews

$4.50

  This Finnish Episode:  Recalling the Finns in Foster, Rhode Island and its Surrounding Areas

 

  by Walter W. Grass

$10.00

  FOSTER

  1781 - A Bicentennial Celebration - 1981

 

  Album of old photographs compiled by the Foster Bicentennial Committee.

$5.00

Foster and the Patriot's Dream

 

  by Sandra Olson, Margery I. Matthews, Marcia M. Bowden,

and Elizabeth Olausen

 

   Foster's contribution to the patriots' cause in the War of Independence.

$2.75

  It Was a Good Life

 

  by Margery I. Matthews

  Reminiscences of Foster by Members of the Foster Preservation Society.

$5.00

 

  Peleg's Last Word:  The Story of the Foster Woolen Manufactory

 

 by Margery I. Matthews

   The legend of Peleg Walker and the Ramtail Mill.

 

$3.00

A Rhode Island Rule Book


by Leah Inman Lapham c. 1939

A reprint of a Cookbook of Historical Recipes & Cures.

$12.00

  So I've Been Told

 

  by Margery I. Matthews

  A collection of stories about Foster.

$4.50

  Tax Records for 1781, 1787, & 1798

 

  transcribed by Margery I. Matthews

 

$2.25

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Videos

Barns of Foster

 

Video produced by the Foster Preservation Society in August 2010.

$10.00

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Maps

  Maps of Foster

 

  1799, 1862, 1870, 1895

$1.75 each

4/$5.50

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Gifts

 

Polo Shirt

 

  Logo shows picture of the Town House along with text that reads:

"Foster, RI 1781"

 

Please specify color: burgundy or dark green.

Available in S, M, L, and XL.

 

$15.00

   Limited Edition Series of Ceramic Tiles

 

   Series 1: Foster Town House, 6"x 6", sepia tone.

    First in the series of tiles.  Only 100 of each scene will be produced.

$15.00

PRICE REDUCTION

 

2011  Eighteen-Month Calendar


Contains many historical photographs of Foster.

Original cost $10.00

$5.00

 

 

Foster Preservation Society

P.O. Box 51

Foster, RI 02825

Phone (401) 397-5687

Email: fosterfps@msn.com