100 years ago — July 1915
LAKEVILLE — Through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. G.G. Thorne of Wells Hill, the help employed on their place enjoyed a picnic at Sage’s Ravine last week.
LIME ROCK — Hugh Cummings is to have a car soon.
LAKEVILLE — The construction gang of the C.N.E. railway has been busy the past week making a new cement platform at the station to replace the wooden one.
50 years ago — July 1965
Residents of the East Canaan area were startled last Friday afternoon by a strange sound in the air. Catching a fleeting glimpse of the object which certainly had no standard means of power, speculation as to the identity of the object ranged through the usual flying saucers and related unidentified flying objects. It turned out to be Marc Abell of Framingham, Mass., with a glider which landed in the field behind the Bel-Air Restaurant in East Canaan.
Michael Brown of East Canaan was one of three area youngsters to attend a special conservation program at the White Memorial Foundation in Litchfield on Monday and Tuesday.
CORNWALL — Miss Elizabeth Merriam of Baltimore, Md., spent the weekend at Mohawk Farm renewing acquaintance with her friend, Miss Sarah Clark.
LAKEVILLE — Four boys at Rudd’s Day Camp swam across Lake Wononscopomuc from the camp dock to Perch Rocks, a distance of about seven-eighths of a mile, on Thursday, July 16. Those making the swim were Eric Russell and John Buckley Jr., both eight years old; Nate Weeks, ten; and Richard Carberry, eleven.
25 years ago — July 1990
CORNWALL — Joseph Blumenthal, 92, and his wife Ann White Blumenthal, 89, died Wednesday July 11 at their West Cornwall home. State police listed the cause as asphyxiation, but said there was no evidence of foul play. Mr. Blumenthal, a publisher and typographer, was considered one of the nation’s leading experts on type and book design.
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