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Vintage Base Ball Comes to Hilltop
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Over 50 spectators had set out their lawn chairs that sunny Saturday morning June 4, some under sunshades, on the large mowed field north of the big barn at Hilltop Farm.
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Over 50 spectators had set out their lawn chairs that sunny Saturday morning June 4, some under sunshades, on the large mowed field north of the big barn at Hilltop Farm.
The short parade (from Ffyler Place to Veterans Park), the Air Guard Flyover (one C-130 transport), a good crowd (but not crowded), a satisfactory PA system, and only a few departures from a standard and satisfying Suffield Memorial Day.
Meade Alcorn, prominent Suffield citizen and former chairman of the Republican National Party, doesn’t look quite happy.
When parents and friends of Suffield High School music students crowded into the school auditorium for the annual spring concert on May 26, many of them knew that this was to be a very special event.
Command Master Chief Dedrick Walker shares a high five with Karen Doyon.
Driving south down Quarry Road from the end of Phelps Road, one crosses a little bridge, hardly noticeable except for the two quick bump-bumps as the tires cross its ends.
With support from many Suffieldians, an interested neighbor has persuaded the Connecticut State Preservation Council to take action toward preventing the demolition of an old tobacco shed .
This bleak view looking up North Main Street in the late 1800s shows a longer Town Green than now, and the large elms that blew down in the New England Hurricane of 1938 were young.
The operator looks back to check traffic as he guides his machine.