Weed-Enders House
Totally Smokin’ Weed-Enders, Man Granby (Google Maps Location) July 2008 This is one of several Salmon Brook Historical Society Museums. As part of our four part museum tour of the Salmon Brook Historical Society’s properties in Granby, I was granted a peek inside the Weed-Enders House. While it is attached to the more tour-able Abijah […]
Concept of Freedom Trail: Norwich (3)
Boston Trowtrow Gravesite Norwichtown Old Burying Ground When you’re trying to get to a billion places all over Connecticut, sometimes you must visit some at night. And upon doing so, your “views,” so to speak, aren’t the best. Such was the case here, at my visits to Boston Trowtrow’s grave and the Jail Hill area […]
Concept of Freedom Trail: West Hartford (2)
Bristol Gravesite Old Center Burying Yard, Main Street My hometown makes the grade! And not only that, we get one of the fancy stone monuments to boot! Interred in the Burying Yard is Bristol (ca. 1731-1814), an African kidnapped into slavery before the Revolutionary War, who purchased his freedom and achieved a degree of prosperity […]