Turning Back The Pages - November 19

100 years ago — 1909

CANAAN — Miss Hazel Beeman of Winsted has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. William H. Canfield.

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The Observer (editorial): Typhoid fever is generally traceable to bad drainage or bad sanitary conditions. Look to your cesspools, vaults, etc. before it is too late. The day is coming when Lakeville must have a sewage system. Sooner or later this question must be faced regardless of expense.

John Conway who has been in the employ of E.L. Peabody has resigned to take a position as a fireman on the C.N.E. Railway. He expects to be located at Maybrook.

CANAAN — It is reported that J. Henry Roraback is to organize a large lime company with a main office in Canaan. It is said that there will be plants at all of the points where the New England Lime Co. has kilns, for the purpose of competing with the trust.

50 years ago — 1959

This week William L. Fox Jr. of West Cornwall and Lakeville has announced the purchase of the Cornwall Insurance Agency from Robert Blake, attorney, of West Cornwall.

SHARON — Ted Drum left yesterday with his family for North Carolina where he will open a grocery store and gas station.

FALLS VILLAGE — Miss Becky Foster and Rosemary Foster, accompanied by Mrs. H. Lincoln Foster, spent last Friday and Saturday in New York City, shopping. They stayed with Mrs. Foster’s sister, Mrs. Joseph M. Ford, in Riverdale, N.Y.

25 years ago — 1984

CANAAN — Laurence P. Smith of Collinsville this week took possession of the Canaan Airport after purchasing it from its former owners for $270,000. Smith said he will continue to seek the controversial license change to a commercial license. He stressed that while a commercial license does not necessarily mean increased use of the field, it will allow tighter controls over the facility.

 

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Club baseball at Fuessenich Park

Travel league baseball came to Torrington Thursday, June 26, when the Berkshire Bears Select Team played the Connecticut Moose 18U squad. The Moose won 6-4 in a back-and-forth game. Two players on the Bears play varsity ball at Housatonic Valley Regional High School: shortstop Anthony Foley and first baseman Wes Allyn. Foley went 1-for-3 at bat with an RBI in the game at Fuessenich Park.

 

  Anthony Foley, rising senior at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, went 1-for-3 at bat for the Bears June 26.Photo by Riley Klein 

 
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A visit to Pearson’s airy studio suggests uncommon work, to be sure. Each of four very large tables were covered with what looked to be thousands of miniature squares of inkjet-printed, kaleidoscopically colored pieces of paper. Another table was covered with dozens of book/illustration-size, abstracted images of deer, made up of colored dots. For the enchanted and the mystified, Pearson kindly explained that these pieces were to be collaged together as artworks by the artist Richard Kraft (a frequent contributor to the Siglio Press and Pearson’s husband). The works would be accompanied by writings by two poets, Elizabeth Zuba and Monica Torre, in an as-yet-to-be-named book, inspired by a found copy of a worn French children’s book from the 1930s called “Robin de Bois” (Robin Hood).

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For those lucky enough to already possess their own bike, perhaps the routes described will inspire a new way to spend a Sunday afternoon. For more, visit lakevillejournal.com/tag/bike-route to check out two ride-guides from local cyclists that will appeal to enthusiasts of many levels looking for a varied trip through the region’s stunning summer scenery.

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