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The loss of Lakeville’s Donald K. Ross this week has touched many lives in the Northwest Corner, including those who served with him on the boards of the Salisbury Association and the Salisbury Forum (see appreciations this week.) But none valued his support and dedication to shared ideals more than we at The Lakeville Journal.
In the summer of 1961, I wrote, “For a few days in October, Connecticut women will be able to receive birth control advice and devices in New Haven, where the Planned Parenthood League will open the state’s first birth control center in more than 20 years.” The league planned to test an ancient Connecticut birth control law that prohibited the u
After all this time, I still wonder why it took me such a long time to finally read two of the most significant and literary masterpieces in the English language that were eyeing me each time I visited our local public library.
100 years ago — May 1922
SALISBURY — A very ornamental fence has been installed at D.J. Warner’s new residence.
— Miss Mary Stanton is enjoying a few days’ vacation from her duties at the post office.
LIME ROCK — Wm. Tellerday and Fay Chaffee motored to Poughkeepsie Sunday.
It’s not that often we can celebrate around the topic of affordable housing in the Northwest Corner. Yet here we are.
Until the last 40 years, most families always supplemented their food with hunting. Pre-World War II, there were less than 2,000,000,000 people on the planet (today there are 7,000,000,000+). Hunting and the wildlife food supply were a normal, regular, habitual part of families’ lives. Disrupting that often meant families went hungry.
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