Thursday, April 8, 2010, the Historical Society and the Andover Townsman newspaper launched a new weekly feature, “Andover Stories.” The feature will run for two years, from April 2010 through April 2012, celebrating the Society’s 100th anniversary. One story will run on the Society’s actual 100th birth date, Thursday, April 14, 2011.
The 104 Andover Stories project is currently chaired by volunteer Gail Ralston and co-chaired by volunteer Tom Adams. Writers are all volunteers and interns. Historical Society volunteers include Jim Batchelder, Joan Patrakis, Gail Ralston, Don Robb, and Mike Simo. Interns past and present include Francesca Balboni, Amanda Beveridge, Katie Gohn, and Jennifer Tarbox. If you would like to join the 104 Stories team as a researcher or writer, please call Elaine Clements at the Historical Society office at (978) 475-2236.
Andover Stories will be archived on the Andover Townsman’s website the week after they appear in the paper. We will also post a link to the most recent article each week on The Blanchard House Blog so you can stay up to date with the series.
| Publication Date | Title | Author |
| 4/08/10 | New Series Launches | Don Robb |
| 4/15/10 | Samuel Smith, Home of America | Don Robb |
| 4/22/10 | Powder Mill supplied Minutemen | Jennifer Tarbox |
| 4/29/10 | Town history full of little known events with big interest | Joan Patrakis |
| 5/6/10 | How Andover was settled | Jim Batchelder |
| 5/20/10 | Andover soccer team once hoisted national cup | Mike Simo |
| 5/27/10 | Andover’s coconut connection on Memorial Day | Gail Ralston |
| 6/03/10 | When Andover's Finest Went Underground | Gail Ralston |
| 6/17/10 | Memorial Hall Library’s Legacy of Literacy and Remembrance | Gail Ralston |
| 6/17/10 | Krinsky's, the downtown junkyard: Eyesore or treasure trove? | Don Robb |
| 6/24/10 | Private schools long a sign we're 'a town that values education' | Gail Ralston |
| 7/1/10 | Presidential Visits to Andover, from Washington to Bush | Katie Gohn |
| 7/8/10 | Before bra-burning, there was author Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Jennifer Tarbox |
| 7/15/10 | For whom the bells toll? Academy boys lost in World War I | Gail Ralston |
| 7/22/10 | Poor Wagon Shop became underground stop, ‘casino’ | Don Robb |
| 7/29/10 | What our ancestors did for summer fun | Joan Patrakis |
| 8/5/10 | Inns & taverns: Respites from discomforts of travel | Gail Ralston |
| 8/12/10 | Andover company that started as Tyer Rubber produced Converse shoes, NHL puck | Mike Simo |
| 8/19/10 | Farming in Andover | Jim Batchelder |
| 8/26/10 | History of historical society's home | Gail Ralston |
| 9/2/10 | Dancing in Shawsheen begat a ballroom for Andover | Francesca Balboni |
| 9/9/10 | Andover public education started by 1647 law | Jim Batchelder |
| 9/16/10 | Scamps, scoundrels and misguided color Andover’s past | Joan Patrakis |
| 9/23/10 | Dane, a man of faith who spoke against witchcraft hysteria | Mike Simo |
| 9/30/10 | Route 495’s arrival shows human costs of progress | Don Robb |
| 10/7/10 | Serio’s Grove provided river entertainment | Gail Ralston |
| 10/14/10 | Zion’s Hill: Theological Seminary put Andover education on the map | Francesca Balboni |
| 10/28/10 | Andover's 400 year old clock, and others | Bob Frishman |
| 10/28/10 | Legends and Ghosts of the Shawsheen River | Gail Ralston |
| 11/4/10 | Le Boutillier's indelible mark | Tom Adams |
| 11/11/10 | Immigrants always drawn to Andover | Amanda Beveridge |
| 11/18/10 | A sailor from 'Greatest Generation' | Mike Simo |
| 11/24/10 | Thanksgiving in Andover | Gail Ralston |
| 12/2/10 | Andover's Big Screens | Lorraine DeLucia |
| 12/9/10 | League of Women Voters celebrates 90 years | Karen Wakeling |
| 12/16/10 | Independent Andover Bookstore remains a rare business | Katie Gohn |
| 12/23/10 | Christmas | Susan Lenoe |
| 12/30/10 | Andover's early churches: A history of helping others | Amanda Beveridge |
| 1/06/11 | Many facades of Andover's Inn | Gail Ralston |
| 1/13/11 | Loony 'crime' a crying shame | Reprint |
| 1/20/11 | Bay Circuit Alliance | Gail Ralston |
| 1/27/11 | History lives here, just check the National Register | Jim Batchelder |
| 2/3/11 | Miner had an excitement for living | Tom Adams |
| 2/10/11 | Main Street: Growth of a town center | James Batchelder |
| 2/18/11 | Andover played major role in American Revolution | Joan Patrakis |
| 3/3/11 | Cato Freeman, slavery and prejudice in Andover | Katie Gohn |
| 3/3/11 | Early welfare in Andover and its almshouses for the poor | Pam Smith |
| 3/10/11 | Snow, Wind, and Water: Natural Disasters that puncture the memory | Katie Gohn |
| 3/17/11 | Abbot Academy a leader in its own right for 150 years | Francesca Balboni |
| 3/28/11 | A man born to do | Tom Adams |
| 3/31/11 | Smith & Dove: Turning flax into gold | Gail Ralston |
| 4/7/11 | Punchard High School, the Heart of Andover | Tom Adams |
| 4/14/11 | Andover Historical Society turns 100 | Norma Gammon |
| 4/21/11 | Masonic Lodge nearly 200 years old | Bob Domingue |
| 4/28/11 | the ConsComm: 50 years of conservation oversight | Gail Ralston |
| 5/5/11 | Town House: First new building in divided Andover still stands | Bernice Haggerty |
| 5/12/11 | Town was all aboard the railroad movement early | Don Robb |
| 5/19/11 | Town owes much more than amusement to one-of-a-kind Bessie Goldsmith | Jane Cairns |
| 5/26/11 | Town's Civil War record an honorable one | Joan Patrakis |
| 6/2/11 | William Wood - Andover's Horatio Alger | Don Robb |
| 6/9/11 | Abbott Village was a neighborhood defined by mills | Jim Batchelder |
| 6/16/11 | Pomps Pond remains public beach | Vicki Robb |
| 6/24 | Banking as new business in 1830s Andover | Gail Ralston |
| 7/1/11 | Fourth celebrations in town have been somber, brilliant, reckless, nonexistent | Joan Patrakis |
| 7/7/11 | Hinton's ice cream was sweet success of former slave | Francesca Balboni |
| 7/14/11 | Digging into a life, a garden | Jennifer Tarbox and Joan Patrakis |
| 7/21/11 | Andover's first golf club was on Phillips campus | Doug Mitchell |
| 8/3/11 | Frye Village live on - under another name | Don Robb |
| 8/4/11 | Ice harvesting at turn of the 20th century | Pam Smith |
| 8/12/11 | Town moved quickly from horse to trolley to cars | Francesca Balboni |
| 8/18/11 | Ballardvale and its mills | Gail Ralston |
| 8/25/11 | Pompey Lovejoy - 'lection cake and ginger root beer | Pam Smith |
| 9/8/11 | 'Murder' at Pole Hill grips nation in 1900 | Jane Cairns |
| 9/15/11 | History of recycling in Andover, 1970-1995 | Tina Girdwood |
| 9/29/11 | Boston tried to take away our Shawsheen River | Gail Ralston |
| 10/3/11 | Shawsheen Village Women's Club continues into 91st year | Bernice Haggerty |
| 10/6/11 | School days past | Tom Adams |
| 10/13/11 | AVIS: Preserving Andover's green spaces | Fred Snell |
| 10/27/11 | More accused witches here than in Salem | Don Robb |
| 11/3/11 | Thomas Cochran and Phillips Academy's 'Golden Decade' | Gail Ralston |
| 11/10/11 | Shawsheen Village, an unusual company town | Don Robb |
| 11/20/11 | Veteran returning from World War II appreciated town | Jack Moynihan |
| 11/23/11 | Hunt for Anne Bradstreet, early Andover poet | Kimberly Adams Whitworth |
| 12/29/11 | 100 years of theater in town | Pam Smith |
