Ridgefield Historical Society
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Oral History: Dick's Dispatches
  1. TABLE OF CONTENTS

    No. Dispatch Title

    1. The Story of Joe and Jimmy Joe
    2. A Good Dentist & His Lost Weekend
    3. More North Street Folk
    4. Uncle Dick Continues with North Main
    5. Down Titicus Hill
    6. Three~Room Titicus School in the 1920’s:
    Outhouses, Wood Stoves, Running Water
    7. Keeley-Over and Duck on the Rock:
    the Last Years of Titicus School
    8. Sister Frances, Tom Curley, Jap Walker
    9. The Titicus FlOod and Ernie Stash
    10. Beyond the Titicus Bridge or
    Harry Dropped The Hammer
    11. “Skeleton Farm” and the Two Soldiers
    12. Tales of Scotland and Mamansco
    13 Mamansco Farm and Miss Richardson
    14 The Chauffeurs’ Ball, Especially 1940’s
    I 5 No Finer Place for a Boys’ School
    16 O’Neill and Dairymen ofthe 1920’s
    17 Up by the Bad Curves
    18 Big Jim Smith and the Turkey Shoots
    19 Inmates of Town Farm, Ham and Others
    20 Jan Huton and the Walls of Food
    21 How the Frufla Horse Got Its Name
    22 Big Jim Kennedy, Builder of Mansions
    23 North Salem Road, South From Fort Hill
    24 Beavers and the Valden Property
    25 A House That’s in Loving Hands
    26 Tom Kehoe, His Horses and Harvests
    27 The Sounds and Smells of the Titicus Store
    28 Settlers’ Rock and up Titicus Hill
    29 General Bill Creagh of Roberts Lane
    30 From Putty Stevens to a 1926 Minstrel Show
    31 Taximan Herb Bates and How To Fix Flat Tires
    32 Thank You for the Letters
    33 Joe’s Corner and the Hornig Fatality
    34 Hornig Death: What Lynce Saw
    35 Traffic Lights and Moving Houses
    36 Iron Horses, Donkeys and Other Station Visitors
    37 When There Were 11 Trains Daily
    38 More Tales of the Station
    39 In the Days When’the Coal Cars Came In
    40 Tales of Charley Stannard
    41 The Dangers of the Rails
    42 The Fatal Wreck of Ought-Five
    43 Al Knapp and His One Arm
    44 Save the Old Station!
    45 Some More Lore from the Age of Coal Men
    46 How Jimmy Rogers Relieved the Great Depression

    Dick's Dispatches