BARTLETT — “This is a long day in coming!”
So said Bartlett Historical Society President Phil Franklin last Saturday morning as about 30 people assembled in front of the old St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Bartlett Village to celebrate with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the former church into the new, handsomely renovated home of the Bartlett Historical Society.
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