The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/history/page/22/)
A quiet scene in West Suffield Center is shown in this old postcard, postmarked 1906. On North Grand Street a one-horse carriage approaches the intersection passing a two-horse wagon, where two men walk toward the Terrett House hotel. At the porch next door, three men idly watch. The luggage on the porch suggests they are waiting here in the shade for a train at the depot just east of the corner.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith.
Two Suffield hunters are pictured in this Hartford Courant photo printed on November 27, 1918.
That’s Ray Bugbee behind the counter of O. C. Bugbee & Son, the general store next door to the West Suffield Congregational Church, probably in the mid-1930s.
After a series of powerful rainstorms, I went out for a run and found a relic of old Suffield: a wrought iron rail spike from Suffield’s long-gone trolley system.
October has been recognized as Polish American Heritage month since 1981. It is a time to consider the contributions Polish men and women have made in the United States and throughout the world. The first Polish men came to America 410 years ago. They were instrumental to the success of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1608. Almost 200 years later, two Polish military men played critical roles in the American Revolution.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith. September 6
A new laundry is being established at the Suffield School and electric washing machines and mangles have been installed. This is along the line of economy and good business practiced by the school. The school has besides its herd of cows, about forty pigs and five hundred pullets and are assured of fresh farm products. .
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith.
