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Happy Groundhog Day and blessed Imbolc! Punxsutawney Phil has poked his nose out of Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania and proclaimed six more weeks of winter. But not so fast says many of his rivals, including Connecticut’s very own Chuckles the Groundhog of the Lutz Children’s Museum in Manchester. She and the others say spring has [...] Here’s the first round of New England cemetery news for 2012… First, some good news! Man Who Catalogued Cemetery Given Highest Geneology Award Middletown Patch, January 23, 2012 They shouldn’t have to clean up after inconsiderate people New London cemetery cleans graffiti from monuments New London Day, January 3, 2012 New London man [...] Thanks to bOING bOING for the heads up on this one… (You don’t read bOING bOING? You should!! It’s AWESOME!) That great New England “anomaly” known as The Voynich Manuscript is now online! Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library finally put the entire Voynich Manuscript on the web for perusal. The Voynich Manuscript [...] Since Halloween is a few days away, I thought it would be a good time to get updated with the latest cemetery news in New England. And away we go… Tour the tales the gravestones tell Martha’s Vineyard Times Oct. 19, 2011 Here’s a couple of stories about the Sarah Osgood statue from the Yantic [...] I just got this announcement today from the Connecticut League of History Organizations…it’s too good to pass up. Don’t miss it!! Cranky I can go for weeks without having anything to say. Then things happen, one after the other and I have too much to comment about. So I usually don’t. But these are things that I just couldn’t ignore. Moodus is getting rowdy these days. Feel the Earth Shake Near Moodus? (NBCConnecticut) ‘Moodus Noises’ Strike [...] NO! Not me! Definitely not me… Instead, congratulations goes out to the Public Archaeology Survey Team, Inc. for winning the Award of Merit, as given out by the Connecticut League of History Organizations (CLHO). The award was for their excellent webpage, The Archaeology for Willimantic ‘s Frog Bridge over at the Connecticut DOT site. Check [...] Connecticut Gravestone Network Annual Spring Symposium ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Connecticut Gravestone Network Annual Spring Symposium (co-sponsored this year by the Connecticut Society of Genealogists and Friends of Center Cemetery Inc., East Hartford) will be held on Saturday March 19th 2011, from 9am to 4pm Admission is $10 a person: $5 for CGN & FCC & CSG members. Location: South Senior Center, 70 [...] Here’s a bit of Cold War history I didn’t know about…Connecticut has old Nike missile sites. Peter Marteka wrote about them recently in the Hartford Courant. Remembering Nike Missile Sites Throughout The State Plainville’s Nike Missile Site I knew about the ones in New Jersey…they’ve been written about extensively thanks to the Weird New Jersey [...] From the Hartford Courant: Connecticut Falls Off Marketing Group’s Map Everybody knows Connecticut hasn’t been a member of New England for decades… it’s a suburb of New York. Just ask anyone in Fairfield County. feh… Cranky |
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