Interview with Frederic Curtis Booth January 21, 1964

Frederic Curtis Booth was born in 1881.  He was the Curator for the Stratford Historical Society from 1954 -1969.  Mr. Booth recounts his memories of Stratford Center, Putney, and Oronoque including the Peck's Mill Disaster in 1899.  Mr. Booth died on June 17, 1969.  His interviewers were Vivienne Knapp, Jane Calkins, and Edmund Judson.  (The photo to the left shows Mr. Booth working his farm in the 1930s).