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Category: Cultural history

Cultural history

First Pride Day, 1998

FIRST ‘PRIDE’ DAY: “A Celebration of Community: Straight, Gay and Lesbian“ took place in 1998, on the Community Center lawn. Just a year later, a Rainbow Flag was flown for the first time in the nation over a state capitol, Hartford, on March 21, 1999.

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A hand-painted egg (pysanka)
Cultural history

Pysanky, a Ukrainian Tradition

The late Maria Kruelski, a longtime Ridgefield resident, was known for her artistic and musical talents. One of her finely decorated pysanky (Ukrainian hand painted eggs) is now in the Society’s collection.

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Letter to Luke Kilcoyne
Cultural history

Dear Luke — An Irish Immigrant Experience

Mr. Luke Kilcoyne saved letters from his early years in the US, when many young people from Ireland were establishing themselves. Even with the support of family & friends who’d come before them, it wasn’t an easy life, as these letters make clear.

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Cultural history

Hezekiah Scott (1789-1879)

Hezekiah Scott was a weaver and operated a distillery on the brook near his home on Barlow Mountain Road — a stream now called Kiah’s Brook.

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Cultural history

Paving

The first road paving, part of a state experiment, was done on the eastern end of Branchville Road around 1912. Catoonah Street was paved in 1922.

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