Bolton History Snippets appear in the local newspaper, The Bolton Common.  Information for Snippets is culled from journals, letters, bills, news clippings and other ephemera from the Society's files, About Bolton and word of mouth.



Reminiscences of Pond Park

Osborne Everett reminiscing in a letter to Esther Whitcomb about one of the shops at Pond Park wrote: "I can remember when it was Tommy Maloney's paint shop.  He painted carriages.  Incidentally, Tom Maloney was a midget.  He use to travel with Barnum and Bailey's Circus as the most perfectly formed midget, but they let him go because he was drunk all the time.  He was mean when he was drunk, and set that paint shop afire many times and also came up to the post office with a pictol and was going to shoot my father (Dr. Oliver Everett).  He pulled the trigger but it didn't go off.  My father disarmed him and Bill Dow who was constable took Tom to the Clinton lock up all tied up with a big rope, for which the newspaper poked fun at him.