The Center for Art, Culture, and History – Exeter, or CACHE, will be hosting a new local history talk by CACHE’s board president, Dwight Miller, from their quarterly series CACHE Chats: Tales of Exeter and Beyond. Dwight’s discussion is scheduled for Monday, November 18th, at 5:30 p.m. in the upstairs conference room, and the topic is “School Bells and Heritage: Exploring Exeter’s Educational Past.”

Miller will discuss the first schools in the area that began well before the town of Exeter was formed in 1888; these include Rocky Hill, Locust Grove, Kaweah, Central, Venice Hill, Lindcove, and Lemon Cove. Several major controversies arose in those early years, resulting in community outrage that erupted in a major meeting, and petitions were signed. He will also propose that Exeter’s Woodrow Wilson School was the first “Wilson School” in the United States.

This event is free to the public; $5 donations are encouraged. For more information, visit our website at www.cach-exeter.org/events.