The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2018/12/page/6/)
Fall flew by but we are ready for winter! Sign up for these FREE Teen Programs online at suffield-library.org. Thanks to the Friends of Kent Memorial Library for their support! Make Your Own
Bath Fizzies
December 5
from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
at 61 Flyler Place
Let’s get some science going and learn to make homemade bath bombs. You’ll go home with gifts for the holidays, or a treat for yourself.
There will be seven weeks of stories, crafts, and activities during this 30-45 minute story time. (Ages 2-5.) Come have fun! Register or drop-in.
This bear is Paddington, whose story started on Christmas Eve in 1956, at Selfridges in London. Michael Bond, searching for a present, pitied a forlorn toy bear sitting alone on a shelf and took it home. He wrote more than 70 stories about his much-loved bear. Today, over 30 million Paddington books have sold worldwide. The bear is so famous that when the Chunnel opened, a Paddington bear was the first item to enter France.
The Snowman Exhibit will be held at the King House Museum on Saturday, December 1 and Sunday, December 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served in front of the fire. The Silver Tea Exhibit will be held at the West Suffield’s Academy Hall on Saturday, December 1, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.
The Suffield Polish Heritage Society welcomes anyone in Suffield and the surrounding area who is interested in learning about the Polish Culture and keeping it alive. Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month from September through June at 10 a.m. Watch for announcements about meetings and other items of interest to Polish Americans on the Facebook group “Suffield Polish Heritage Society.”
The meeting on December 5 will be held at the Suffield Ambulance Center (205 Bridge Street.) With the help of the Felician Sisters from Enfield, we will sing Polish Christmas carols, Kolędy. The Sisters will also bring Opłatek, the Polish Christmas Wafer, used during the Christmas Eve celebration, Wigilia, and possibly some Kolędy CDs for sale at the meeting. This is always a “standing room only” event. On January 2, Sara Zak will repeat a presentation recently given to the Suffield Historical Society.
A quiet scene in West Suffield Center is shown in this old postcard, postmarked 1906. On North Grand Street a one-horse carriage approaches the intersection passing a two-horse wagon, where two men walk toward the Terrett House hotel. At the porch next door, three men idly watch. The luggage on the porch suggests they are waiting here in the shade for a train at the depot just east of the corner.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith. December 6
A large touring car ran into an electric light pole at the corner of South Main street and Kent avenue Sunday morning tearing off the right rear wheel, smashing the top and windshield and badly damaging the body of the car. . . . on their way from Worcester, Mass., to Bridgeport .
Paige’s husband called not long ago looking for anecdotes about her high school years that he could use in her eulogy. I wasn’t much help even though she and I were very close during high school. Her career in adventurous social activities blossomed more in college. In high school we used to take long walks which we called Braeburning because we would wind up at an elementary school called Braeburn, where we’d sit on the swings and chat. On one of these walks we decided that we would not speak any English; unfortunately Paige was taking German and I was taking Spanish, so communication was challenging.
Three Performances Only: Keep The Home Fires Burning by Charles E. Bright. An ensemble of 16 talented local thespians from Massachusetts and Connecticut are gathering to create a Merry Old-Fashioned Melodrama with Songs of the Season on December 7 and 8 at 8 pm, and December 9 at 2 p.m. at Mapleton Hall. This play is recommended for all ages! Keep The Home Fires Burning is The Suffield Players’ 2018 Holiday Benefit Challenge production, performed with scripts in hand as a staged reading with a minimum of rehearsals … and a maximum of creativity! All proceeds from this production go toward the upkeep and maintenance of Mapleton Hall, The Suffield Players’ theatre, built in 1883.
On Saturday, September 29, twenty volunteers combed the Connecticut River bank, the Windsor Locks Canal trail and the surrounding area for litter and other unsightly rubbish. Half the group were members of the Suffield High School Interact club. Others were members of the Friends of the Windsor Locks Canal, a few Cub Scouts and several other volunteers. The crew worked for three hours. The project was coordinated by the Friends under the auspices of the Connecticut River Conservancy’s Source to Sea Clean-Up program. “We greatly appreciate all the folks who helped,” said Friends’ secretary, Karen Carlson.