If you have been to the Academy and seen the 1868 map of Orange, on display, the one that appeared in the Beers Atlas in that year, you would have noticed a section, near Turkey Hill Road known as Geo ...

It’s Now The Second Floor No, it’s not called the 2nd floor, and it’s not the attic, it’s the garret.  The word garret comes from Old French with a military meaning of a watchtower, something similar ...

The heritage of Connecticut has been compared to a stonewall by one Homer Babbidge, Jr. a writer and storyteller.  He states that stone walls, so common in Connecticut come in all sizes, shapes and te ...

The State of Connecticut has 169 towns, some small and some very large like Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport. The little towns, as with the larger ones have stories to tell, stories and tales of lon ...

It seems that Christmas time gets closer and closer to Halloween.  Maybe the colors for the fall should mix and mingle to make one big holiday.  Thanksgiving is almost overshadowed by the trees and de ...

If records could go back to the days when North Milford was settled, we would have to look carefully at the diary of John Downs.  Mr. Downs lived in a homestead which is now on High Street in Milford ...

The Derby Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with capital of about $7500 and 10 stockholders.  Joseph Wheeler and others petitioned the General Assembly for a charter stating that “the road now leadi ...

Most women today are strong and capable, winning elections, sitting behind a desk as a CEO of a large company, bringing up children while holding down a full-time job or as head of household.  Women h ...

By now, most of the Town of Orange has either been inside the Bryan-Andrew House or seen it, numerous times, while passing it on Old Tavern Road.  What most of you don’t know is its personal history, ...

  From our local history books, we know that the colony of Milford was founded in 1639 with the arrival of Peter Prudden and a group of followers from the New Haven Colony.  They lived in a separ ...

  I find, in teaching music to elementary children, I slide into sayings that they have no clue about.  They look at me like I just fell off a distant planet and maybe I have.  Sometimes I feel l ...

If it were a dress, it would be considered to be very tattered.  The seams might be worn, the fabric suspect, but its structure when all considered might have a second life.  Thus we see an original T ...

I know you know the rest of the reindeer from reading A Visit From St. Nicholas, the original title of Clement Moore’s The Night Before Christmas but “do you recall, the most famous reindeer of all?”  ...