'Turnback Tuesday' features Grassy Hill Lodge in Derby

This week's "Turnback Tuesday" visits Grassy Hill Lodge, [77 Sodom Lane, Derby,] once owned and operated by the Rapp Family. 

Rapp’s Restaurant was founded in Shelton around 1900 by Adolph Loather Rapp. Adolph and Josephine had six children, five of whom became involved in the family businesses. 
Their son, Robert, took over and ran the Rapp family catering as well as Rapp’s Grassy Hill Lodge. 
Grassy Hill Lodge was a business the Rapp family operated for over 50 years.

Thanks go to the Derby Public Library for sharing interesting local history each week.

*Editor's note: The site is now the home of The Hops Company. 

Forum highlights the good, the bad, and a vision for Derby's future

Tiffany Zezula from Pace University Land Use Law Center in White Plains, N.Y. facilitates a forum last week at Grassy Hill Lodge in Derby.


DERBY - Concerned citizens turned out March 25 for a forum to offer their ideas for moving the city forward.
Please click here for the story in the Valley Independent Sentinel.