The public is invited to a presentation by historian Philip Crossman at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Middletown Springs Historical Society at 2:00 pm on Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Historical Society Building. Following a delicious dessert buffet, there will be a brief business meeting, including a review of the year's accomplishments and plans for the future. Also on the agenda is the election of new trustees for the 2019-2020 term.

Following the business meeting, Phil Crossman will give a PowerPoint presentation, "Frisbie's Fourth Lecture: Things Left Out of the History of Middletown, Vermont, 1867."

In February and March of 1867, Judge Barnes Frisbie delivered three lectures to the citizens of Middletown which were published later that year as the History of Middletown, Vermont.
At 52 years old, Barnes was too young to have been part of the first settlement himself but he was well-connected and observant enough to collect stories from elderly living settlers or from their descendants and friends.

Phil Crossman's imaginative "Fourth Discourse" will introduce a few things that Barnes Frisbie decided not to tell us, didn't have time to tell us, didn't know we would want to know, or didn't know himself. For example, what was his relationship to the "Frisbie" that we all played with growing up? And how did Middletown miss getting a Presidential Library by one vote in 1852?

Philip Crossman has spent most of his career teaching the humanities to high school and college students. His interest in Middle Eastern history was sparked by several years he spent working in Jerusalem. Upon his return to Vermont, he completed a master's degree in Islamic-Western Relations at Norwich University and went on to pursue a Masters in Education in Educational Technology at the University of Toronto. He currently works as an administrator at Community College of Vermont (CCV) and teaches part-time at CCV and at Norwich University.

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