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, Kent Memorial Library
History
A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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Lettered on this East Street Tobacco parade float is “THE CROP THAT MADE EAST STREET FAMOUS.” The float may have been part of the Suffield Quartermillennial anniversary parade in 1920, but it might have been prepared for one of the Suffield Agricultural Fair parades some years earlier.
History
Suffield Suffered in the 1918 Pandemic
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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 as well as old folks and those already susceptible, eventually killing over 8,500 Connecticans.
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Cigar Silk Ribbons: A Collecting Mania
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Cigar smoking became popular in the United States after the Revolutionary War and was wildly popular during the Civil War. Think of the photographs of Ulysses S. Grant chomping on a cigar.
History
A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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There wasn’t much left at the Suffield Country Club on the morning after the 1932 New Year’s Eve fire.
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, Kent Memorial Library
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.
History
A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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The bridge carrying the town’s “road to the mountain” over the NY, NH, & H railroad is seen here from the neighboring property to the northeast, now 1310 Mountain Road.
History
The Ides of March Led to Years of Battle
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Ides, a Roman terminology, is the middle of the month, according to some alignment with the moon. The Ides in March, May, July and October are on the fifteenth.
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.