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Irish Presence in Stonington: Kathy Crowley Kelley Interviews Madeline Banker

February 07, 2019

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To help you get inspired for this year's Rollie Mc

To help you get inspired for this year's Rollie McKenna Community Photo Contest, here's one of Rollie's photos from our archives. Undated, it shows an "open club night" at the PHGS on Main Street.

#portuguese #stoningtonct #stoningtonborough #community #photography #history #PHGS #memories #tradition #localhistory

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you! May your blessings

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you! May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.

This postcard, from the Jack Fix Collection, was postmarked in Mobile, Alabama on March 5, 1910.

#localhistory #irish #ireland #eringobragh #stpatricksday #heritage #tradition #community #memories #history #luck #blessing #holiday

Elise Owen, Spring 1941. How did this local woma

Elise Owen, Spring 1941.

How did this local woman become one of the military's top flight instructors in World War II?

From a 1978 Westerly Sun Article by Don Lewis: "The story is familiar. Wanting to learn aeronautics from the ground up, she tried to enroll in a number of flight mechanics' schools but was repeatedly turned down because she was a woman. "I was furious, I got myself a lot of change and went into a phone booth and began calling everywhere. Finally I found a little school in Hartford which would accept me. I went. The teacher simply handed me overalls and told me to break down an engine. With help, I did." Before Pearl Harbor, Miss Owen had not only completed the mechanics' course, but had completed all necessary flight training at Brainard Field and held her private and commercial pilot's licenses and had qualified as a flight instructor as well. Then it was off to Tulsa, OK where she served as flight instructor at the Spartan School of Aeronautics, training military pilots who were in short supply in the early stages of the war. "I had the problem students. Before a student was washed out of school, he was assigned to me. If another instructor was afraid to fly with a particular student, I flew with him." After preparing a 'Course of Instruction for Instructors; and turning down the school's directorship, Miss Owen returned to Linden Hall and taught flying at Stonington, Plainfield and Waterford Airports."

Did you know that Elise Owen also knew Amelia Earhart? That's a story for another time.

#womenshistory #history #localhistory #pilot #wwii #instructor #plane #airport #community #gender #stoningtonct #hartfordct #flying #womenshistorymonth

It's that time again! Our annual Rollie McKenna Co

It's that time again! Our annual Rollie McKenna Community Photo Contest is back at the Lighthouse Museum this April. Our theme this year is "America the Beautiful." Interested participants should send their high resolution image file to Chelsea Mitchell, Library Director by emailing cmitchell@historicstonington.org before April 1st. ABC PhotoLab is generously sponsoring this event, so printing is absolutely free for all participants! The Lighthouse Museum will be open with free admission April 16th to the 26th for community voting. We can't wait to see what you come up with this year! For more information, visit our website, historicstonington.org and click on Programs & Events.

#localhistory #stoningtonct #community #photography #contest #mysticct #pawcatuckct #history #america #america250 #rolliemckenna #portrait #landscape #abstract

There's only a few days left to register for our b

There's only a few days left to register for our baseball lottery draft! The link to register is on our homepage, and can be found under Events & Programs - America 250. Good luck!

#localhistory #baseball #community #america250 #athletics #sports #nonprofit #fun #pasttime #american #history #team #stoningtonct #mysticct #pawcatuckct

Photographic portrait of Harriet Newell Williams.

Photographic portrait of Harriet Newell Williams. She was born in Mystic, November 22, 1833 to parents Seth Williams and Lucy Ann Noyes. She married William Franklin Grant on March 12, 1856, and they settled in Litchfield. Together they had five children: William (who died as an infant), Nellie, Frank, Frederick, and Lucy. In the early 1870s, the Grants moved to Brooklyn and William took a position as a clerk to support his family. Harriet died in 1916 at the age of 84 in Manhattan, and is buried with her husband.

Men dressed as British soldiers of 1775, marching

Men dressed as British soldiers of 1775, marching past Perkins Store during the 1914 Centennial celebration of the Battle of Stonington. Marshall: Frank V. Matthews. Men behind: Duncan Carson, Joseph Coffey, Manuel Pont, Albert Fort, Raoul M. Delegrange, Herbert Zeller, Roy C. Whitall, J. Sherman Hammond, Walter E. Hammond, Frank R. Muller, Thomas Noyes, Clifford Watrous, Calvin Harvey, Albert G. Randall and Joe Law.

#localhistory #parade #celebration #centennial #1914 #history #americanrevolution #revolutionarywar #community #warof1812 #battleofstonington #postcard

Mystic Knights of Columbus, dressed for an undated

Mystic Knights of Columbus, dressed for an undated parade. From left to right: ? Banks, Philip Russo, Octavius Simonelli, Jeffrey Ballestracci.

#localhistory #parade #knightsofcolumbus #kofc #history #community #neighbors #memories #family #costume #columbus #20thcentury #photography

Don't forget to join us tomorrow night at the Myst

Don't forget to join us tomorrow night at the Mystic VFW for this fun and informative program by brothers John and Scott Fain, as they discuss their father's service in the Pacific during World War II, and the creative and sometimes explicit plane artwork that served to inspire and motivate the troops. It's sure to be a night to remember!

#localhistory #wwii #pacific #noseart #1940s #veterans #artwork #resistance #history #militaryhistory #community #lifelonglearning #bloodchits #stoningtonct #mysticct

"View of Westerly, RI from Moss's Hill, February 4

"View of Westerly, RI from Moss's Hill, February 4, 1900." Gift of Virginia Anderson.

This photograph was taken in the approximate location of where Seafood Etc. stands today, looking down toward Mechanic Street. It is a fascinating look at just how much farmland was still in Pawcatuck in the early 20th century.

#localhistory #farmland #history #community #pawcatuckct #stoningtonct #landscape #photography #themoreyouknow #development #westerlyri

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