History
A Connecticut legend from Granby
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What do the Connecticut State Library and Cossitt Library have in common? George Seymour Godard of North Granby.
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Visiting the Granby Drummer archives: What happened in Granby in the late 70s?
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Tudor Holcomb passed away on Feb 11, 1978. He was highly respected and admired for his lifetime of giving and leading Granby.
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These First Ladies visited Granby
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Grace CoolidgeLaura Bush
Twice in Granby history has a First Lady of the United States visited Granby. The last time was Sept.
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Local History and the First Amendment
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It is not a well-known story that local Connecticut Valley history is tied to the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, granting freedom of religion, speech and press. Several forces converged on Granby at its inception as the Salmon Brook Ecclesiastical Society in 1740.
Historic Footnotes
Would you call the one you love a bellybone?
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The English language is not static. Despite the efforts of purists to freeze the language at a certain time period and say, “This is correct forever,” the language continues to change and grow.
Celebrating 50
The mid 70s brought change to the Center
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Granby’s 1970s growing pains— controversial budgets, development proposals, plans for creating a commercial center in the wedge between Route 189 and Route 20, a school system with growing pains, a failed sewer system and cars lined up for blocks waiting to pump rationed gasoline all shared space on the Drummer’s front page.
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Dedicating the Cossitt Library
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In the Winter of 1891, a committee worked on plans for the dedication of the new library, which was scheduled for Thursday, March 26, 1891. Due to the overwhelming interest in the event, it was held at the First Congregational Church.
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Visiting the Granby Drummer archives: What happened in Granby in the early 70s?
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The second Charter revision gave reporting responsibilities for the Town Clerk, Tax Collector and Chief of Police to the newly appointed Chief Administrative Officer (Town Manager) David Russell. The changes were approved in a November referendum as was a compulsory referendum to pass the town budget.
Historic Footnotes
Allen’s Cider Mill—another landmark is gone
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Arthur E. Allen of West Hartford bought the North Granby cider mill property in 1919. One hundred years later the roof and upper floor of the old mill collapsed and the south wall of the building fell down.
Celebrating 50
The 70s: a decade that changed the world and our town
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What happened to Granby during the 1970s—that globally transformative decade now a half-century past? Its population exploded, it changed physically, it lost some farms, and it struggled with the forces of national and global influence.