It has been a long, long time since I have posted anything new. For the last few years, my day job has been all-consuming and basically blocked out everything else. I have thought of a thousand posts, but never quite found the time to sit down and write. But recently […]
So a reader commented on the Slavery in Cheshire post asking about slaves in Prospect and connections to Milford. I started writing a reply but had to write a post instead. Slavery existed throughout the state of Connecticut, even in small towns like Prospect. And when you really start looking, you […]
Whew! I finally have a chance to just sit and write. I thought I’d have some time to get some posts written after that last presentation I did in February but boy was I wrong. I did two presentations on two different topics last weekend! Monday night, at the Cheshire Historical Society, […]
Hi folks, sorry for the hiatus, I was working like crazy getting ready for the presentation I gave at the Plainville Historic Center a few weekends ago. Now I’m preparing for a talk about Italians in Cheshire that I’ll give at the Cheshire Historical Society on April 20 and another about […]
In honor of the great article Mike Torelli wrote about Jube Road for the Cheshire Herald I though we’d take a look back at some of the Herald’s predecessors like the Conn. Ec-Lec-Tic Weekly or the Cheshire Standard. Cheshire has had a few newspapers over the last 100+ years unfortunately […]
Ahh, picnics. The idea of a picnic invokes thoughts of hot summer days, maybe a cool breeze. Some ice cold lemonade and slices of watermelon. Just what we need on a frigidly cold day like today. Social clubs were all the rage in the 19th century and early 20th. Clubs […]