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/17/)
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
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.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
The First National Bank’s excellent model of its original building is pulled down Mountain Road in front of the official reviewing stand for the big parade celebrating Suffield’s Tercentenary Anniversary on October 12, 1970.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
On October 13, 1920, Suffield presented a grand pageant as part of the three-day celebration for the town’s quartermillenial anniversary. Seven thousand people, many arriving by trolley, sat on a hillside behind what is now Jacqueline Circle and watched a dramatization of key moments in Suffield history.
July has some historic events which we should all be familiar with as American citizens. This information came from historyplace.com
The moment in time when this picture was taken was the summer of 1907.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library
Off Pearl Street in Thompsonville, diagonally across from the Pearl Street Library, there is a pleasant little garden with two comfortable benches nicely shaded by decorative greenery. And from those benches is the view pictured here.