Terry McManus talks about the nearly 90-year partnership between Ridgefield Garden Club and Caudatowa Garden Club, which continues today in their combined efforts to preserve Ballard Greenhouse through the Garden and Conservation Trust. You can download Terry’s presentation below.
Prepared by the Garden and Conservation Trust of Ridgefield.
Throughout the mid-to-late 1600’s, Connecticut carried out its own inquisitions to root out the devil, pre-dating the famous Salem Witch Trials.
A pewter uniform button uncovered alongside musket balls offers rare material proof of a Revolutionary skirmish, linking Ridgefield’s landscape with soldiers who fought there nearly 250 years ago.
This edition of the Scott House Journal features Clarence “Korky” Korker and the photographs of Ridgefield he captured, now being digitized by the Ridgefield Historical Society.
Betsy Reid, collections manager at the Ridgefield Historical Society, retires leaving a legacy of knowledge that is literally the foundation of our organization’s work.
