From this date in 2014. That leaf was hangin' on!
Friday, November 8, 2024
'From the 'Turnback Tuesday' archives: Focus on Rev. Mansfield
This week's "Turnback Tuesday" is an image of Rev. Richard Mansfield.
He was born in New Haven in 1724, his father a deacon for the Congregational Church.
However, during Mansfield's schooling at Yale he was converted to the Episcopal faith.
He became a Reverend and was assigned to the St. James Episcopal Church in Derby in 1748. He served there for 72 years - with only a brief interruption during the Revolutionary War, after he fled due to his loyalist views.
After the war, however, he was allowed to return and continued his duties at St. James until his death in 1820. He was buried in Elm Street Cemetery in Ansonia.
(Note: the bonus photo above of St. James is circa 1900.)
Thanks goes to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.
Master's Table Ansonia Food2Kids program posts Amazon wish list
Every week, Ansonia Food 2 Kids provides weekend food bags to 30 children for two elementary schools in our community.
No child should go hungry. We can’t do this alone; your support means the world to us and to the children we serve.
How You Can Help:
1. Shop our Amazon wish list/donate https://a.co/0LTeFvf - Food 2 Kids Ansonia
2. Volunteer your time
3. Spread the word about our mission
4. Purchase gift cards from BJ’s or Costco and we will do the shopping
Together, we can ensure no child in Ansonia goes hungry.
Oxford Middle School Drama to perform Disney's 'Descendants The Musical'
Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now.
When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?
Performances are at 7 p.m. Nov. 22, and 2 and 7 p.m. Nov. 23 at Oxford High School, 68 Quaker Farms Road, Oxford.
This is shared from a Facebook event page.
