I have been writing for the Orange Town News since its inception and have had a wonderful time doing it.  This column is no less enjoyable but might be a bit grim at times.  Many years ago, I wrote ab ...

The 28th of May, 2022 is Founders Day, commemorating the day a true copy of the petition for separation from Milford was examined and accepted by Thomas Day.  The ball started to roll when West Farms ...

This is the History Corner, right?  So, you may be wondering about the title…well, just sit back and see just what the title means.  The word telecommunication is a compound of Greek and Latin with “t ...

We had wonderful neighbors while I was growing up on Garrison Ave. in the Bronx.  Rabbi and Mrs. Steinberg lived on the 3rd floor of our building and the Goldberg’s lived next door.  Rabbi was an inva ...

We all learned about Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, right?  We need to reteach this information.  Now don’t put the paper down, this gets more interesting, I think. You know that middl ...

It won’t be long before we will be celebrating the town’s Bicentennial, 200 years after the May 28th meeting where a “true copy” of the original document outlining the resolve by the Assembly that the ...

In a few short months, Orange will be celebrating its 200th anniversary, the bicentennial.  Although the Orange Historical Society’s research center holds the key to the past, information about 1822 a ...

The American Revolution was initiated by delegates from thirteen colonies of British America against the British.  I know or hope you know that the war was fought over the issue of American independen ...

In 1830, a young Dennis Stone built a home on Orange Center Road which was actually North Main Street.  After all, streets were only dirt roads with names that fit where they were with South Main Stre ...

As you have been reading, Connecticut has a great deal of history, and since the Revolutionary War is my passion, I have focused on that portion of our history.  Well, if you think that my next county ...

The mention of the War of 1812 resounded in the halls of the Senate on the evening of January 6, 2021, a day that should have been one to rejoice that the nation’s voters’ word would be heard as each ...

South?  Florida?  No southeast to New London County.  Our first stop is Groton, located between the Thames and Mystic Rivers, originally part of New London.  John Winthrop, Jr. son of Massachusetts Go ...

Before I take you to the land of snow, I need to reflect back to Eastford for a gentleman who was a notable citizen, General Nathanial Lyon (1818-1861).  You can guess by the date of his death why he ...