The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/history/page/26/)
This 102-year-old portrait of the Connecticut Literary Institution’s girls basketball team, presumably with their coach and manager, was donated to the Historical Society by Gilbert and Christine Ahrens.
Wednesday night, June 14, at the Senior Center found an eager group of Suffield residents awaiting a slide show of Suffield postcards presented by Town Historian Lester Smith.
The Suffield Historical Society’s annual picture show will be based on Curator Lester Smith’s extensive collection of Suffield postcards.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
The Suffield House, on North Main Street just north of the Gay Manse, was once a private home but became a hotel after the railroad came to town.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
Suffield’s May Breakfast at Mapleton Hall was a popular spring event, attracting many hundreds of hungry diners throughout the big day in the last decades of the 19th century and well into the 20th, especially after the trolley came through Mapleton Avenue in 1902.
The Suffield Historical Society invites you to join members on Saturday, June 3 for a trip to Cambridge to visit the Fogg Art Museum and/or the Natural History Museum.
The public is invited to the Senior Center on May 17 at 7 p.m. to hear Gordon Kenneson speak at the Suffield Historical Society’s May meeting.
Sunday, May 14 at 1 p.m. celebrate spring and the beautiful lilacs at the Phelps-Hatheway House and Garden!