Puptent PoetsJamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 5 Dec. 2022On Memorial Day weekend in 2019, while picking up litter with the Willimantic Trash Mob along Bridge Street, I found two leaves from a 1945 book, Puptent Poets. I had not known about this book before I found this small piece of it, but have since … Continue reading Puptent Poets
The Lost Cemetery
The Lost CemeteryJamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 4 Dec. 2022Four years ago, several of us went searching for the Lost Cemetery of Windham, CT. The Hale Collection, a compendium of American cemeteries and gravestone inscriptions compiled during the 1930s as a New Deal public works project, lists a cemetery in the southern part of … Continue reading The Lost Cemetery
Alfred Avery Burnham
Civil War Congressman Alfred Avery Burnham Read the Emancipation Proclamation from the Back of a Railroad Car ... Sort Of Jamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 13 Dec. 2022 The Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum -- located at 55 Bridge Street in Willimantic -- had their Railroad Days the Saturday before Labor Day, and I was … Continue reading Alfred Avery Burnham