Dr. Darla Shaw portrays Liz Leonard, the first female Selectman of Ridgefield. The stretch of highway on Route 116 from Barlow Mountain to Scotland School is named after her. She moved to town in the 1960s and found work as a political journalist for the Danbury News Times and Bridgeport Post, among others, before coming into office as State Representative and later First Selectman.
In this sold out gathering the we learned the influence Ridgefield had on the American Revolution
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This little notebook opens another window into the life at the Peter Parley West Lane Schoolhouse
Third grade students from Branchville experience a one room school with educators from the Ridgefield Historical Society
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