LIVERMORE FALLS – Projects of Livermore students in 1830 will be added to displays of current eighth-graders at Livermore Falls Middle School for the annual grade eight promotion being held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at the school.

Projects of 2005 will include studies of the 1800s and 1900s, and several displays will give suggestions for the future in 2065. In 1830, Sewall Norton worked on his math copybook, carefully writing important questions and answers with ink and pen. Hannah Goding was making her sampler in 1830, exhibiting different needlework techniques and including the current penmanship style for uppercase and lowercase letters of the English alphabet and numbers 1 through 10.

Norton’s math book was found in the North Livermore Reading Club Library years ago. He bought paper from Jefferson Coolidge’s general store and made himself a cover from the ream wrapper around the paper.

Hannah Goding, age 13 in 1830, worked on a colorful sampler that will be brought to Livermore on June 16 by its current owner, Sue Cooper of Medway, Mass. Cooper’s hobby is to purchase a sampler, research its maker and prepare a binder of information. Once she has gathered available information, she will sell the sampler and binder and purchase another sampler.

Both student projects will join other Livermore antiques for a public “show and tell” to be held at 3 p.m. Friday, June 17, in the basement of the North Livermore Baptist Church.

Deacon Livermore’s mourning frame and other early items will also be included. The session will be presented by the Livermore-Livermore Falls Historical Society on the occasion of the Hannah Goding sampler’s “visit back home.” All are welcome to attend.