Historic Footnotes
Taxation in early Granby: A first class fireplace in 1813 burned a lot of money
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From The Archives: Historic Footnotes by the late Carol Laun (1934 – 2021)
History
Before the Frigidaire, ice cutting provided refrigeration—and extra money for entreprenuers
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From The Archives: Remember iceboxes?
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Celebrating Lovers’ Day over the years
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On Monday, Feb. 14, more than 151 million Valentine’s Day cards will be sent to and received from husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers and significant others across the country.
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From The Archives – Historic Footnotes by the late Carol Laun (1934 – 2021)
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“I think we fussed more about Christmas in those days (c.1895). On Christmas Eve, Dad would hitch two horses to the bob sled and we would ride to church, the Copper Hill Methodist Church in East Granby. There was always a church entertainment; the children would recite appropriate pieces.”
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1908 headline: Granby Sheriff and 12 others charged and convicted of White Capper violence
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Had kids been selling newspapers in Granby in 1906, as they did in the major cities such as New York or Boston, that February they would have been yelling “Read all about it! White Cappers drag Willis Griffin out of town!”
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A 1955 call for help to the local doctor became a murder charge
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When I was in the sixth grade at Kelly Lane, I had Mrs. Cowper for English. However, months later, her husband accepted a job transfer to Baltimore and they moved away.
Historic Footnotes
Thanksgiving celebrations through the years
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A day set aside for giving thanks has been a part of New England tradition since 1621, when the Plymouth Colony survivors celebrated their first harvest.
Historic Footnotes
Granby Heritage – The Granby Fair, Part II
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In 1900, Emma Reed Huggins of West Granby wrote her sister a letter describing the Granby Fair. “We are all well and for a wonder I went to the Granby fair yesterday.”
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Remembering Carol Laun
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In the June edition of the Granby Drummer, I wrote about Eva Dewey, the curator and archivist for the Salmon Brook Historical Society from 1959 to 1986, who saved much of Granby’s history. In her final nine years she had an invaluable assistant in the archives—Carol Laun, who would go on to transform the Salmon Brook Historical Society into what it is today.
Historic Footnotes
Granby Heritage—The Granby Fair
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For any agricultural town, the harvest is the culmination of the year. Along with the harvest comes the annual Agricultural Fair, a time of excitement and exhilaration for the hardworking farm families.