Suffield 350th Anniversary Edition
Local Businesses Celebrate, Too!
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3 Figs is serving The Graham Tini honoring Sylvester Graham, and the 1670 Nick Chicken Sandwich.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/governmenttown/suffield-350th-anniversary-edition/page/2/)
 
	3 Figs is serving The Graham Tini honoring Sylvester Graham, and the 1670 Nick Chicken Sandwich.
This 350th Anniversary of the establishment of Suffield was an opportunity to create an educational and inspirational film reflecting on events of the past and present and preparations for the future. A film company, Our Town Films of New Jersey, was hired to achieve this task with the help of members of Suffield’s 350th Committee.
It was fun collecting recipes from Suffield people for the 350th Cookbook. The impetus of the cookbook was a grant from the Connecticut Department of Agriculture to showcase Suffield’s farms, farmstands and farmer’s market.
About two years ago, the 350th Committee decided to create a companion volume to Robert Alcorn’s The Biography of a Town, written for the Town’s 300th anniversary.
Legend: Events in or about Suffield are blue.
Although our “Big Weekend” won’t take place until October, 2021, Suffield will still have a wonderful birthday party in October of this year!!!!
Three hundred fifty years ago, in 1670, Suffield was formed as a distinct municipal corporation on October 12. Listed below are questions about events which occurred on October 12 in other years.
The King House has an extensive collection of Suffield postcards donated by Lester Smith. American postcards were first in print around 1873. The “Golden Age of American postcards” peaked in 1910 but ended by 1915, although postcards are still sent from vacation destinations. Postcards were, at first, mostly printed by