Loretta’s Christmas Memory, 1929 (As submitted by Valerie Forte Vitali) In her years as Librarian in WH, Loretta BonTempo Forte had a knack for selecting books that suited the avid readers who patronized the library. Her love of reading … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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Pilgrim or Puritan? We today often use the words Puritan and Pilgrim interchangeably, and yet the difference in the two is quite significant: those who came on the Mayflower to found the starving colony of Plymouth in 1620 were the … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist WHHS Football 1968 An Autumn to Remember Part II See part 1. See part 3. By the spring of 1968, all those kids who had learned to play football on the sandlots of West Haven had come together … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist WHHS Football 1968 An Autumn to Remember Part I See part 2. See part 3. Teamwork is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The Lucinda Sutton In past Historian’s Corners, we have touched very briefly upon the history of the four-masted schooner Lucinda Sutton. Thanks to some special help from Bill Lang, we are able to more … [Read more...] about Historian’s corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist H.H. Richards Lumber Company For many years, Water Street was a place where shipwrights, merchants, warehousemen and factory workers labored, and of course it was closely tied to the sea. By … [Read more...] about Historian’s corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The Powder Puff Derby Thanks to Jeanne Insalaco and Dolly Alfonso for their assistance in preparing this story- August, 1965 Antonette “Dolly” Cambino was only nineteen years … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Frank Belbusti Summer, 1952 Twenty-Four-year-old Frank Belbusti sat behind the wheel of the race car as it slowly circled the track at Savin Rock’s Donovan Field. How had he gotten … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist West Haven Speedway It is hard for anyone who visits Savin Rock today to imagine that an entire amusement park and a place called “Hot Dog Alley” were packed into those few grassy acres—and it is … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist What is a Father? Father’s Day originated as local celebration in 1910 in Spokane, Washington. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge supported the establishment of a national Father’s Day. … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner