History
100 Years Ago in Suffield
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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/history/page/14/)
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
Two New York visitors touring Suffield on an unusual side-by-side tandem bicycle stop to chat with a native.
Members of the West Suffield Grange pose for a photo at their fall lawn party on September 20, 1950.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library. December 2 The Emergency Aid Association has started the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals in this town and packages of 100 seals have been mailed to every family in town with an explanatory letter. The money received for these stamps is used in combating tuberculosis. Eighty-five per cent of the money received for the sale of these stamps remains here in the town to be used by the Emergency Aid Association. December 9 There was a large attendance at the chicken pie supper given by the ladies of the Sacred Heart church in the Suffield School gymnasium.
On Sunday afternoon, November 10, 1957, a small crowd gathered in the Suffield High School auditorium (now Suffield Middle School) for the charter meeting of the Suffield chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
On the morning of October 12, 1970, principal speaker Walter Cronkite chats with Judge Howard W. Alcorn as Ray Tanguay directs the Suffield High School orchestra onstage in the high school auditorium.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
Little Ruth Kim Remington, four years old, concentrates on the job of cutting the ribbon.