Third Thursday Talk: What Say You, Elder? The Life and Lore of Rev. Daniel Field, a Vermont Methodist Minister of the 19th Century, with Adam Boyce
October 17, 12:00 pm
Vermont History Museum, 109 State St, Montpelier

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.

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