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A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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A happy crowd enjoys a cruise around Middle Pond from Babb’s Amusement Park on the motor launch “Chief.”
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/history/page/26/)
A happy crowd enjoys a cruise around Middle Pond from Babb’s Amusement Park on the motor launch “Chief.”
I lived in Suffield from 1985 to 2012 but I grew up in Cleveland, part of Connecticut’s Western Reserve.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
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.
The celebration of Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at the Battle of Puebla that took place on May 5, 1862, during the French intervention in Mexico.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.