"What Say You, Elder?"
The Life and Lore of Rev. Daniel Field, A Vermont Methodist Minister of the 19th Century—a booklet and talk by Adam Boyce

Springfield Town Library
Wednesday, November 14th
6:30pm

Rev. Daniel "Elder" Field (1805-1883) was born in Springfield, Vermont. He was "called" to become an itinerant Methodist minister, serving various communities throughout Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York State.

Rev. Field retired from the full-time ministry in 1863 to a small farm in Williamstown, Vermont, where he spent the remainder of his life, occasionally filling in at local churches as a "supply" minister. It was during this time that many stories about "Elder" Field, as he was known, began to accumulate, showing his droll, wise, and sometimes eccentric ways.

Adam Boyce, whose great-grandparents purchased the former "Elder" Field farm in 1896 (still in the Boyce family today), relates stories handed down from his family and other sources about the pithy parson.

Adam will have copies available of his booklet about Elder Field for sale at $5 per copy.

The talk is free and open to the public.

If you can't make it, this talk can come to your community. Please contact Adam Boyce for more information.