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A piece of Henry Freeman's headstone embedded in the ground.
African-American History Places Post

The African Burying Place

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  • African-American
  • Black Lives Matter
  • history
  • systemic racism
by capittsley
Published 2020/11/07
Updated 2020/11/18
slavery, Congregational Church

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 […]

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Cheshire and the deeply tangled roots of racism

  • Black Lives Matter
  • systemic racism
by capittsley
Published 2020/07/07
Updated 2020/07/07

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 […]

African-American History People Post

Slavery in Prospect

  • African-American
  • slavery
by capittsley
Published 2015/05/08

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, […]

People Post

Campanilismo!

  • 20th century
  • food
  • Italians
by capittsley
Published 2015/05/02

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 […]

African-American History Characters Post

The Story of Rhoda

  • 18th century
  • African-American
  • slavery
by capittsley
Published 2015/03/14

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 […]

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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Old News in Cheshire!

  • 19th century
  • advertisements
  • newspapers
by capittsley
Published 2015/01/24

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