BETHEL – The Bethel Historical Society offered a tour of 13 area barns as part of Bethel’s Harvestfest on Sept. 15.

Included were the historic Capen barn on Capen Hill, Intervale Road; the Smith/Richmond barn in Mason Township; the former Noyes barn at Bean’s Corner in East Bethel, now owned by Dan and Kate Crooker; the Haines barn on Intervale Road; the Bohr barn on Chapman Street; the Skillings/Korhonen barn on Skillings Road; the Angevine English barn on the North Road; the Taylor barn on Broad Street; the Hastings Homestead barn, also on Broad Street; the Moses Mason House barn; and several former barns now used for commercial purposes, the Oaks of Bethel Inn, Philbrook Place on Main Street and L’Auberge off the Bethel Common.

Volunteers included ticket sellers Walt Hatch, Sylvia Clanton, Lynn and Joe Arrize, George Nickerson, Sandra Seaver, Kathy Kunkle, Dotty Heath and Grace McKivergan.

Barn guides were Paula Howard, Pat Carter, Dan and Kate Crooker, Dot Bartlett, Bettyann Hastings, Owen Wight, Susan Herlihy, Tim and Joann Korhonen, Sally Taylor, Jarrod Crockett, Jane Hosterman, Celia Vistica, Amy Davis, Rodney Harrington and Linc and Sue Fiske.

Stan Howe and Jarrod Crockett pressed cider at the Hastings Homestead barn and offered it to tour visitors.