Recuperation journey: Looking through the door

Evening visitor striking a pose.

Celebrate Shelton to present Mamas and Mimosas Saturday at Adam's House

 

Recuperation journey: Enjoying life

Staying warm next to a heat lamp on a dreary Thursday at Kellogg Environmental Center in Derby.

Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton to host T-Rex Tea Party

 

Ages: 3-8 
Date: May 13
Time: 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

SHELTON - You are cordially invited to Plumb Memorial Library's first T-Rex Tea! 

Come dressed fancy or as a dinosaur or as a fancy dinosaur as Miss Maura kicks off our party with a funny story! 

Then tea party participants will engage in hands-on dino activities and finish up with snack and tea too! Caregivers must remain with their children for program duration. 

The Library is at 65 Wooster St.

Register online: http://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=2661&EventID=491979&PK=

or call 203-924-1580. 

This is shared from the Shelton Library System Facebook page.

Derby Elks to sponsor fishing rodeo at Osbornedale State Park

 

'Turnback Tuesday' (on Friday) features St. Mary's Church in Derby

Sharing a post from seven years ago that came up in my Facebook memories today. 

This week's "Turnback Tuesday" features a postcard showing St. Mary's Church and its old school and convent on Elizabeth Street.

St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church of Derby is the mother of Catholicism in the Valley. The church was erected in 1845 on a spacious lot donated by Anson Phelps for the Catholic people of Birmingham. It was enlarged several times and the cornerstone of the present church building was laid on June 25, 1882 by the late Bishop McMahon.

The parish was originally composed of those from Derby, Ansonia, Huntington and Seymour. A parochial school was first established in the basement of the church in 1885.

Under the pastorate of Rev. Charles McElroy, a school building was built in 1898 and a convent for the Sisters of Mercy was erected in 1904 next to the church on Elizabeth Street to the corner of Cottage Street.

The Rev. Dr. Andrew Plunkett, appointed pastor of St. Mary’s in 1932, purchased the Fitch property on Seymour Avenue for future use.

It is now home to St. Mary-St. Michael Elementary School, while the old school and convent were demolished in the early 1970s.

Thanks goes to the Derby Public Library staff for continuing to share interesting local history each week.