Granby Drummer (https://granbydrummer.com/2019/11/page/7/)
With a beautiful, confident stride, bouncing ponytail and fluorescent green socks, Lizzy Cappelli stands out in the pack at an October cross country meet at Granby Memorial High School. Another woman runs close beside her because Lizzy is blind.
Many attempts were made to revitalize the Salmon Brook Ecclesiastical Society. In April 1831, it was voted to build a new church, in the geographical center of Granby. And of course, a new controversy raged over the proposed location.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A great man is always willing to be little.” Seth and Lucy Holcombe, who donated 150 acres of land in North Granby to the Granby Land Trust in 2016, were great—and humble— people.
Robert William Kelsey was named to the dean’s list at Wentworth Institute of Technology for the school’s summer 2019 semester.
The Bruce Porter Memorial Music Series welcomes back The New England Ringers for their “Christmas Around the World” program at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8.
LaBonte, Roger Nelson, Sr., husband of the late Mary Ann LaBonte, Sept. 12
In 1887, Frederick H. Cossitt died in New York City. The passing of one who had lived his childhood in Granby and then moved on was not much of an event of note in a town that had seen many of its children leave for greener pastures in the 1820s and 1830s.
It is difficult to imagine a time without computers or smartphones. I recall heading to college with an electric typewriter feeling fortunate as typing would be so much easier than with a manual machine.
Granby Memorial High School Performing Arts is pleased to announce their fall production of James and the Giant Peach on Nov. 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.
I’m going to cheat a little bit here. I’m not sure I can do it justice, so please stop reading and look at the picture captioned “Soccer dads, together again.”