Middlebury’s Center Schoolhouse – Part III of III
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Following the death of Elise Hamilton (Myers) Bristol (b. 1879) in 1924, her husband, Professor William Henry Bristol (1859-1930), ... Continue Reading →
Middlebury’s Center Schoolhouse – Part II of III
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
John Howard Whittemore’s offer to build a new Center School was part of a larger plan for Middlebury Center. It was he who had ... Continue Reading →
Middlebury’s Center Schoolhouse – Part I of III
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Last year marked the 125th anniversary of the Center School building, located off the Green on Library Road (so named because Center ... Continue Reading →
Middlebury history includes domestic violence
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This article was originally published in the May 2022 issue of the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer.
By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Middlebury, like the rest ... Continue Reading →
Connecticut’s 99-year journey to lawful contraception – Part III of IV
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This article was originally published in the November 2022 issue of the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer.
By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Throughout ... Continue Reading →
Waterbury-Oxford Airport – Part II
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Waterbury-Oxford Airport runways are shown c. 1970 (left) and in the mid-1970s (right). The cross-wind runway seen above has since been ... Continue Reading →
Connecticut’s 99-year journey to lawful contraception – Part IV, Finale
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Following the 1940 Connecticut Supreme Court’s 3-2 decision upholding Connecticut’s 1879 anticontraception law, the Connecticut ... Continue Reading →
Connecticut’s 99-year journey to lawful contraception – Part II of IV
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
In July 1923, the family of the late Henry Sabin Chase (1855-1918), some of whom lived in Middlebury for many years, began constructing ... Continue Reading →
General DataComm – Part II of II
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Following the 1984 breakup of AT&T, General DataComm (GDC) sales soared that year to $145.7 million from $60.7 million in ... Continue Reading →
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