In 1939 about 15 men renovated the top floor of a barn on Church Street in Putnam and the Putnam Fish and Game Club was born. Sixty-nine years later, located on Stonebridge Road in Woodstock, the organization is alive and well with 170 dues-paying members. In order for a club to survive over time there has to be a core group of devoted members- people who ride the ups and downs of change without losing faith in “their” club.

From four such individuals we learn a little about the Putnam Fish and Game Club and its interests, original charter members Ronald Beaudreault, Lionel  LaBonte, Robert Beaudreault and V. P. Richard Allard who have been members since 1955.