Windham’s Second Century ­ Introductory:

By Allen Bennett Lincoln.

Human thought has suggested but one Being to whom “an hundred years are as a day.” For one of His creatures to attempt to comprehend a century of history in forty minutes is to attempt the impossible.
Liberal borrowing from published volumes, inquiry of old traditions, and prompt responses to my letters by many interested, have brought me a flood of information concerning Windham’s second century, which I have
had barely time to compile, but not to comprehend.

I shall be able to read but a few suggestive passages, which I hope may serve to indicate to you something of what the life and character of the town of Windham has been for the past 100 years.