This classic glossy 8×10 black and white photo was taken by the late well-known photographer Bernice B. Perry, a Wilton resident who was not only a prolific documentarian of Souhegan Valley scenes and events but made history by becoming the first woman in New Hampshire to earn a pilot’s license. Also a generous philanthropist, Perry was 91 when she died in 1996. As for her photo, it shows Amherst’s old Lawrence Engine Company firehouse, which was on Boston Post Road and, according to a notation on the back of the photo, was torn down in 1965. The engine company was a predecessor to today’s Amherst Fire Department. When the photo was taken isn’t indicated, but a guess, based on the trucks parked out front, is the mid- to late-1950s.

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