The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2020/08/page/6/)
Please join Julie Harrison “The Garden Fairy” and the staff of the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden for a unique garden-to-arrangement experience, with the return of our From our Gardens series.
Suffield’s Farmers Market has been doing a thriving business this summer, in part because other markets have chosen not to open and also because people are looking for delicious and local fresh summer produce, which can be found in great variety at the Market.
A gardener knows, without a doubt, that there are many different contortions one may experience while gardening. While many physical movements are good for muscles, etc., no one wants to hurt their bones and joints or whatever.
Because Jay Muska and Greg Packard were not able to be at the tournament in person this year, Mike Grip made copies of Jay and Greg’s high school pictures, turned them into cardboard cutouts, dressed them in tournament shirts and posed them for this picture.
What was called “The Spanish Flu” touched Connecticut in the spring of 1918, subsided, then returned with a vengeance in the fall. Unlike COVID-19, that pandemic hit children and able-bodied adults hard, as well as old folks and those already susceptible, eventually killing over 8,500 Connecticans.
Even though Connecticut is in Phase 2 of our reopening, with Phase 3 currently on hold, older adults and individuals with chronic health conditions are being asked to stay home and stay safe.
In the first week of August, new lettering appeared on the old sign of what we once knew as the First National Bank of Suffield.
Summer is the time when gardeners have too many zucchinis. What seemed like a good idea in May becomes a burden later.
It was a record-matching 99 degrees at mid-day on Sunday, July 19, and still mighty hot in the late afternoon, when this photo at the north end of Babb’s Beach was taken.
These two friends chatted comfortably as they drifted near the shore at White’s Pond in mid-July.