By Dan Shine Voice Columnist New Haven: Home of the First Telephone Exchange in the World New Haven’s East Creek is no longer in existence. However for generations it served its settlers and inhabitants faithfully: … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist WHHS Football 1968 An Autumn to Remember Part III See part 1. See part 2. Sometime after Tom Lavery’s father passed away, the family discovered that he had saved all of the newspaper clippings from … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The Story of ‘Widow’ Gill and Her Mansion Reprinted from a column by past city historian Harriet North: The other day I came through Forest Road as I was returning from Westville. To my … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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George R. Kelsey In the years following the War Between the States, America began to advance herself by leaps and bounds, becoming an economic example, a world power, and an inspiration to many still living in the Old World. … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The Good Humor Man 1959 It seemed as if there was no escape from the August heat wave. The boy and his two friends sat on their bicycles, too hot to move. Sometimes on days like this, the … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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Old Newgate Prison With the growth of the first settlements in New England, crime and punishment became common issues, just as they had been in the Old World. However, the setting had changed and so the early codes and methods of … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The West Shore Chronicles, As written, 1925 Thanks to Kathy Granfield for making this possible- Compiled from Data Furnished by: C. Edwin Booth (Rocky Beach); Eugene Hubbard (Jones Hill … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist “Washington’s Black Regiment” Can you imagine Congregational ministers fanning the fires of war? It couldn’t be possible, could it? And yet, the English authorities termed the colonial ministers … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Tom Thumb This week’s column is taken from The West Haven Booster, dated November 1933, and written in the style of that era: Today we beg to recall to your recollection a big, little man, who … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Zuppardi’s Apizza Part II Read part one. When Tony Zuppardi got sick in 1983, he turned the business over to his children, Robert, Cheryl and Lori. The three of them ran the business until … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner