Turning Back The Pages - June 17

75 years ago — June 1935

Reflections of the Season (editorial): Here’s some real railroading. One day recently the local freight while enroute to Millerton got stuck because of grass — yes grass, which had grown so high that it covered the rails, the wheels of the locomotive could get no traction. The engineer had no sand in the sand box and had to uncouple the cars and return to Canaan. He picked up the cars the next day. It is literally true that the railroad has gone to grass. The company should do its haying early.

 

The old milestone on the road to Salisbury, which was removed by the State Road men some time ago, has been reset. The stone which was one of the markers on the old Boston Post Road of Revolutionary days, has had the lettering recut and occupies as nearly the original location as can be ascertained.

 

50 years ago — June 1960

LAKEVILLE — A little after 7 a.m. Saturday the Lakeville Hose Company was called out to fight a fire of unidentified origin which was starting to consume the Jack Peck house on Farnam Road. Mrs. Peck says the Fire Department responded immediately to the alarm and in three hours the men completely extinguished the blaze. Total damage has not yet been estimated, but the house will not be livable for some time.

 

TACONIC — Mr. and Mrs. William Hand have rented the apartment in the Edwin Pickert house.

 

25 years ago — June 1985

Michelle Gawe of Kent will deliver the valedictory at the Housatonic Valley Regional High School graduation Friday evening. Nancy Hurlburt of Cornwall will speak as salutatorian.

 

Cathedral Pines on Essex Hill Road in Cornwall was officially dedicated as a national natural landmark by officials of the National Park Service and the Nature Conservancy in a ceremony on Wednesday.

 

Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrases.

 

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