Recuperation journey: Looking at the sky

... through the window at 5 p.m. today.

 

'Turnback Tuesday' features 1891 photo of ice on Housatonic River

Turnback Tuesday: Ice on the Housatonic River, 1891.

Reuben T. Patchet started as a pressed brick and blue stone dealer in 1883. By 1885, the business became R. T. Patchet and Son, dealing in marble and granite with two locations: office at 188 Minerva St., Derby; and yard/dock located at Riverdale Avenue, Shelton.

Photo shows the buildings surrounded by ice at the yard. Across the frozen river in the center of the photo, the white building is the location of the lumber mill of Derby Building and Lumber Co. Patchet and Son was in business til 1903 when it became R. T. Patchet, dealer in concrete walks.

Thanks to Joe DiRienzo for his help with this research.

Thanks to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week!

Meeting slated Feb. 17 on Route 34 widening project

 

Seymour Public Library to host Story Time Wednesday on Facebook Live

 

SEYMOUR  - Miss Rebecca at Seymour Public Library will share stories and songs on Facebook Live on the Library's Facebook page from 10:30-11 a.m. Wednesday. 

My Sister's Place thrift shop in Ansonia posts weekly sales

My Sister's Place thrift shop is located at 380 Main St., Ansonia.

All proceeds benefit BHcare's The Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence Services.

Seymour Historical Society to host historian's online program about Lincoln

SEYMOUR -  The Seymour Historical Society will host an online program about Abraham Lincoln at 2 p.m. Feb. 27 presented by Connecticut historian Mark Albertson. 

Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech is, of course, The Gettysburg Address. But the stakes were even higher on March 4, 1861, when the 16th president first took office. America was divided. The issue of slavery seemed destined to tear apart the country. 

In this timely program Albertson will dissect Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, explaining how the president tried to ease tensions, reassure Southerners and - unsuccessfully, it would turn out - stave off Civil War.

This is shared from the Seymour Historical Society's Facebook event page.