Recuperation journey: My mother in 1932

Today I forced myself to peek into a box in which my mother kept old photos and found this gem! I'm so gIad I took that peek.

She was 8 in the spring of 1932; that's how I came up with the year.

ARMS slates shred event fundraiser at Ansonia City Complex

Huntington Chapel in Shelton to hold 2-day tag sale

Ansonia announces summer concert series

Civil War monument on Derby Green rededicated on Memorial Day

The refurbished Soldiers' Monument on the Derby Green that features a Union soldier from the Civil War was rededicated Monday after the Derby-Shelton Parade. 
Another ceremony is planned on an as-yet undetermined date in June, organizers said.

*Please stay tuned for more coverage in an upcoming issue of The Valley Voice newsletter.

Sharing Longfellow poem to mark Memorial Day today

Decoration Day

Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest
On this Field of the Grounded Arms,
Where foes no more molest,
Nor sentry's shot alarms!

Ye have slept on the ground before,
And started to your feet
At the cannon's sudden roar,
Or the drum's redoubling beat.

But in this camp of Death
No sound your slumber breaks;
Here is no fevered breath,
No wound that bleeds and aches.

All is repose and peace,
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts of battle cease,
It is the Truce of God!

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.

            - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

*A big thank you goes to Derby Town Clerk Marc Garofalo for sharing this poem in an email.