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Music Vale through a double-photograph used in a stereoscope
Here is a view of Music Vale Seminary, taken from a double-photograph used in a stereoscope, the forerunner of the modern day "view master"
Oen Kennedy: Great,Great,Great,Great Grandson of Oramel Whittlesey
Music is still prevalent in the Whittlesey blood line. This is Oen Kennedy, the great-great-great-great grandson of Oramel Whittlesey, founder of the Music Vale Seminary.
Oramel Whittlesey
In the early 1830's, Oramel's reputation as a teacher was already growing. In 1835, two young women knocked at the door and invited themselves in, stating they had come to recieve instruction, and hence, Music Vale was born. Oramel was so well liked…
Oramel Whittlesey is flanked by his two daughters and the rest of the faculty of Music Vale Seminary
Head of school and teachers at the Music Vale Seminary
Quilt made by Music Vale Seminary students
Quilt made by Music Vale Seminary students about 1850 for the Salem Congregational Church Bazaar
Rev. John Whittlesey
Rev. John Whittlesey, 1780-1864, was a strong-willed Methodist minister of the sect "New Lights". He married his cousin Sally Whittelsey in Westbrook, Connecticut; note the variation on spelling. They moved to Salem in 1801, the year Oramel was born.…