The Saga of Bessie Webster – Part III
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Part III of V – The April 1913 move from Middlebury to South Street in Bristol for Bessie (Webster) Wakefield and ... Continue Reading →
The Saga of Bessie Webster – Part II
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By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Part II of V – Betsey “Bessie” Webster, a Native American woman, was born into poverty in Middlebury, Connecticut, on September ... Continue Reading →
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 →
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