Photo provided by the Suffield Historical Society
Suffield’s May Breakfast at Mapleton Hall was a popular spring event, attracting many hundreds of hungry diners throughout the big day in the last decades of the 19th century and well into the 20th, especially after the trolley came through Mapleton Avenue in 1902. This portrait of the Mapleton Hall Association volunteers who made it happen was taken prior to the 10 a. m. start, in about 1900.