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Library talk: World War I, segregation, censorship and a nation at a crossroads By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
A world war was a conflict Americans were not eager to engage in, nevertheless, Connecticut played a big part even before the United States officially declared war in April 1917. This was the first world war. Jen Busa from the Connecticut Historical Society talked about the state’s involvement in a Cheshire Public Library Zoom presentation Feb. 25, called “Facing War: Connecticut in WWI.” The state’s General Assembly ordered a war census that was the foundation for the logistics of personnel, machinery and supplies at
Daniel W. Storms, Jr., of Stamford, was a private in Company A of the 15th New York Regiment. He was among several Black residents of Connecticut who served in World War 1.
hand. Librarian Kathleen Larkin noted that the census at that time asked whether members in the household could swim, drive a car, or ride a horse. The war census served as the earliest framework for the national Selective Service. Throughout the U.S., 2.8 million men were drafted and two million men voluntarily enlisted. In Connecticut, 60,000 men served in the U.S. forces with about 3,000 serving the Allied forces. Once America declared war, Gov. Holcomb,a Southington resident, created the Council of Defense, to establish and coordinate war boards in each town, organizing loan drives,
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Library metrics reflect new paradigm for services The Cheshire Public Library’s take and make craft program, that prepares kits for patrons to take home, is just one of the ways the libary has adapted services during the pandemic. Joy VanderLek, The Cheshire Citizen
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Enrichment classes are forming tion material check-outs now! dropped 48%, but As COVID’s one-year milestone is reached since partially reopening in September, this March, there have been so many those numbers have quickly rebounded, Upcoming Online Classes:
changes to daily routines. Along with evsaid CPL Director Beth Crowley. eryone else, the Cheshire Public Library On theSpices, upside, library card registrations has made changes to its operations, as the and Cooking with Herbs PSAT Prep, have increased to 13,533 for Cheshire resistaff, facility and programs adapt. While dents this year. That’sSeminar, up 17 percent. DigiLevel Selling some servicesAlbanian have slowed down, others1, Home tal content materials have skyrocketed. have gotten a boost during this era of restrictions. Instant Piano and Guitar Lessons, Balloon
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The total number of hours the library is open has been reduced to about half of what it was pre-COVID. Total visits to the library are down 72 percent from September 2019 to February 2020 versus this current period. The library is open approximately 33 hours per week total Monday through Saturday.
Crowley estimates if each bag averages five items, the number of items would be more than 21,000. The value
One added Zoom service is access for community groups. The library obtained additional licenses in order allow groups to continue their meetings which they previously held at the library. More than 30 meetings have, to this date, been held via Zoom, with CPL staff facilitating. Programs via Zoom have been plentiful. When the library staff went home in March, Crowley said it wasn’t even a week before the staff had children’s programming ready. Since March of last year, a total of 326 programs have been held with 5,041 attendees. From July 2020 to February 2021, there have been 73 programs for children with a total of 1,290 attendees. An important aspect of the programs is not just the quantity, but the quality. The recent Zoom program
It's been interesting to watch the engagement with Zoom programs, Crowley said. We’ve noticed comfort levels increasing and some people have figured it out, she said. However, she also noted there are issues. “We are very much aware of a digital divide even in town like Cheshire,” Crowley said. “[People] not having tech or reliable internet or not having the skill set. It’s tough not being able to provide for those in the gap.” Delivery is another way library services help to keep a strong connection with homebound individuals. The program got underway again when the library reopened in September. It’s a popular program, according to Crowley. Noreen Hakim (nhakim@cheshirelibrary.org) has managed the program for several years. The library is working with the Cheshire town manager’s office and Chesprocott Health District for their next steps. “Maybe there will be some outdoor things in the summer. We’ll see how it progresses. But we will be back,” Crowley said.
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To help address the needs of the community, CPL did a lot of creative brainstorming to produce programming and create service opportunities to keep in touch with patrons.
Another new service is Match Book, a readers’ advisory program. People call the library with the types of books or authors they like to read, and books are picked out for them by the library.
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The popularity of the war was not a given, however. The federal government, for the first time, undertook a propaganda campaign to sway the populace, Busa said. The Sedition Act was enacted to stop opposition and included imprisonment. There also was censorship of the press and anti-war messaging. The act was later repealed.
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food conservation and more. War was good for business. “Connecticut led in manufacturing materials, we supplied troops who spent most of their time on the front lines, and we served as a role model for globalizing state resources,” said Busa, adding that the state sold products to both sides before entering the war. Connecticut was known as “Provisions State” during the Revolutionary War and the state still plays a major role in defense contracting to this day, she said. Jobs were abundant as a result of manufacturing for the war effort. There were jobs for immigrants, for Black individuals fleeing the Jim
An unnamed soldier from the First Separate Company of Connecticut, a unit of Black soldiers with the 93rd Division under a French commander. National Archives
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ers was an eight hour workday for government military work. One Hartford factory offered free child daycare to its mothers who worked the assembly line.
World War posters were created to get people to do their part to help the war effort. Posters were written in several different languages, appealing to the large immigrant populations in Connecticut, which included Ireland, Italy, Russia, and Germany. The posters depicted average citizens helping the war effort, by tending to gardens and buying Liberty War bonds, which were popularized by Hollywood stars, among them, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. In all, the United States was in the war 18 months. Men sent overseas were known as the American Expeditionary Forces and there was a Navy unit as well. Ten thousand women with the American Red Cross went with the AEF overseas as nurses. Soldiers were on average, uneducated, about 22-years-old, 5’7” tall and 140 lbs. They came from rural areas. “It was probably the first exposure to cars, movies and modern health care,” Busa sasid. Thousands of Connecticut women served not only with the Army Nurses
Corps or American Red Cross, but also with the many service and soldier welfare organizations including the YMCA, the Jewish Welfare Board and Knights of Columbus. Private organizations produced entertainment, religious and sporting events to the troops, and also provided mail and other supplies and sundries, that the government did not cover. Most Connecticut men served in the 26th Yankee Division, which was a combination of the New England national guard. The majority of those serving in the 26th were on the front line, Busa said. African Americans were in a separate company called the First Separate Company of Connecticut and became part of the 93rd Division under a French commander. Black soldiers serving under the French commanders were treated as equals. This did not sit right with the American military. U.S. leaders sent letters to the French asking them not to treat them so well, lest they “spoil” them for their return to the U.S. after the war. There was a lot going on here at home during the war, said Busa, and this included race riots. The war was over in the summer of 1919. The last of the troops returned in August. At the war’s conclusion, soldiers were asked to See WWI, A5
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fill-out exit questionnaires. Busa showed a picture of a questionnaire filled out by John McLinn Ross of New Haven. He was a 2nd lieutenant with the 351st Field Artillery Reserve. Busa thought his answers were quite interesting. One question asked his overall experience and he answered, “All men are made of the same clay, whether black or white, and
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We’re already a month in to the new year and for many Connecticut homeowners, home decor updates are already on their minds. Whether you’re seeking a fresh coat of paint or are planning to move to a space more conducive to our altered reality, we at Calcagni have gathered five of the top decor trends for 2021 to help inspire you as we turn the page and welcome the year ahead.
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to navigate in a year marked by Zoom meetings, distance learning and conference calls with far-flung office mates. Divided or dedicated rooms are seeming more appealing in 2021 in response to these new realities, but that doesn’t mean you need to take drastic measures in carving up your open floor plan.
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Call it a nod to the “before times,” but traditional style is enjoying a resurgence in popularity in 2021. Connecticut homeowners can rejoice, because those classic pieces that have graced living and dining rooms for years are once again having a moment. Still searching for ways to make your home feel different? Consider reupholstering an existing sofa or a beloved chair. You’ll keep the beautiful craftsmanship and comfort of your traditional furniture, but will end up with a piece that feels like new. DIVIDED ROOMS We love an open floor plan for the light it allows, the sense of openness it creates and the communal feeling it generates with other members of our households, but such wide open spaces have also proven tricky
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All the time spent indoors this year has made many of us antsy to change things up in our current living situations. Enter the statement pendant light, a decor trend of 2021 that we love for its ability to completely transform a room. Whether you choose to go for an eye-catching, bold design or something a bit more understated, lighting can change the feel of the room in an instant. If a statement pendant light isn’t in the budget, consider the power of changing up your light bulbs: Swapping out an operating-room-bright bulb for a
Lighter and brighter wood accents figure prominently in 2021 home decor, calling to mind Scandinavian and Japanese influence. From whitewashed floors to furniture finished in its natural hue, lighter wood accents can make any room feel fresh again. Whether you’re on the hunt for new furniture or are thinking about refinishing existing pieces, consider a matte finish for a modern-yet-timeless take on this soothing decor trend.
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Learn the value of a post nuptial agreement In last month’s column, we looked at prenuptial agreements. Prenuptial agreements and post nuptial agreements are both contracts that deal with things like alimony and property division if the couple divorces. In this column we will look at post nuptial agreements between already married spouses. Why would a married couple, especially where neither contemplates divorce, want to go through the time, effort and expense to do a post-nup? For whatever reason they didn’t do a prenuptial agreement although the good reasons for one still exist. Because circumstances have changed. One spouse may have gotten an inheritance or had financial success with no contribution from the other. One spouse may have become permanently disabled. To deal with issues that threaten the marriage, like spending habits, infidelity, substance abuse, or difficult family members. A post-nup can reduce arguments and friction by setting explicit agreed upon rules and boundaries and divorce consequences for noncompliance.
To help a reconciliation, especially if a divorce had already started. The agreement can take away the unknown and the contentiousness about divorce finances so that the couple can deal with relationship issues without distraction.
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Ghostbusting is harder than it looks By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
the time when something made a sound or table moved, the group would all end up running around like crazy and screaming like banshees. That gets old fast.
One of my guilty pleasures (oh, yes, I have a few) is reading about ghosts and watching just about every ghost TV show I can find. For TV shows, it started a few years back with a British ghost hunting show. This was a group of middle-aged men and women who would go to castles ( I don’t rememThey used a weird night viber anywhere else). Sometimes they would do seances. sion camera and so we view-
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Another show I was hooked on for the longest time was TAPS. These guys were plumbers and the acronym stood for The Atlantic Paranormal Society. They also ran a lot. I remember the lead hunter admonishing his team, “Don’t run, do not run.” I guess he was embarrassed for them. They would also scream on occasion. I bet that embarrassed the boss even more. Mostly I remember them saying, “What the hell was that?” That got old, too.
I did love the late Ed and Lorraine Warren, Connecticut’s own paranormal investigators, who tackled some prominent local hauntings and who also founded the New England Society for Psychic Research, the oldest ghost hunting group in New England. But, alas, some of their otherworldly adventures were a little too real for me. I’ve also read all the Alvin Schwartz paperbacks. He See Joy, A9
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As for spooky books, I love all scary ghost tales from New England. Mainly, it’s the old-time, non-grisly, ghostly tales I like the best.
You know the ones, the tried and true, but not necessarily real: “Lady in White” and “The Vanishing Ghost,” and those kinds of mainly innocuous reads. Nothing bloody. Nothing super scary. Heck, when I was done reading The Exorcist, I threw out my Ouija board. I am a chicken.
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Artist knows how to create a scene By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
To Artsplace teacher Patty Meglio, nothing can compare to “creating a beautiful scene on a clean blank canvas using the most luscious colors that magically come out of a tube.” Meglio’s enthusiasm for art and painting extends to teaching and her students’ work. Since she began to teach, Meglio has gone out into the community, teaching oil painting and watercolors to students in senior centers, high schools, and town recreation programs spread across many towns, including Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, and Cheshire. She also has exhibited at local libraries and her works are sold at various art shows and local shops. Meglio refers to her own painting style as modern abstract and explains it is “a loose way to paint.” It’s not a photo realistic style, but still realistic, she said. Her relaxed painting style contrasts with a life-long career as a professional technical writer, a skill that is exacting and precise. She recently finished a winter session teaching oil painting at Artspace. “The workshops at Artsplace have
been growing in popularity,” she said. “I’ve been amazed at how terrific the paintings turn out, especially as the classes are limited to three sessions.”
Even though those classes were smaller than preCOVID, Meglio was encouraged to see such a positive response to her classes and now plans to offer two new workshops in March at Artsplace. In addition to live classes, Meglio writes a newsletter and uses her “Pen ‘n Paint” blog, which has almost 200 subscribers, to instruct and cultivate the talents of aspiring artists. Additionally, she posts the work of her students and subscribers. In her blog, Meglio covers the artists’ mindset, as well as technical aspects such as perspective, tools, paint and varnish, principles of drawing, color, and technique. One blog entry dealt with Subject and Focus. Meglio stressed the importance of having a subject that not only interests you as the artist, but draws the viewer in. Once a subject is chosen, Meglio advises to choose a central focus. “A focus is where the lines of direction and movement should lead the eye. That place should draw a person’s attention and keep it in the picture,” Meglio wrote, adding that
A scene of Wadsworth Mansion in Spring painted by Artsplace teacher, Patty Meglio. Submitted
“sometimes the subject is obvious.”
into painting without taking a drawing class or doing any preliminary drawing. I ask The interpretation of the fo- all of my painting students cal point is up to each artist, to begin with a drawing besaid Meglio. Once a choice is fore transferring the subject made, however, she advises to the canvas. I also keep artists to lock in the subject harping on them to recheck with “the brightest colors, their drawing as they paint,” the sharpest edges, the most she said. contrasting values” and then work to subdue or eliminate As for her favorite medium, the other objects in the it’s a toss-up. “Watercolor is scene.span easy in that it's easier to take on location and it's fast. From her work in the classHowever, it's not as forgiving room, Meglio finds that stu- as oils. I do love the layers of dents who are new to oil color and the transparency. paint have a difficult time mixing colors, so she tries to With oils, I love that it incorporate that in her doesn't dry quickly, so I can lessons. Impatience is also mix on and off the canvas, something they work on. and I love the feel of the paint on the brush. It's silky “Many want to jump right and flows nicely. The colors
are wonderful – so rich and creamy.” What and where she likes to paint is easy. “I try to do plein air painting (painting from life) when the weather is good mostly in Connecticut. I love to capture the beauty of nature and working outside is very peaceful and takes in all the senses in an enjoyable way,” she said. When not painting, Meglio can be found writing historical fiction, learning guitar or outside, working in her garden. To find out more about Patty Meglio’s work or class schedules, go online to her website www.pattymegliostudio.com or to her blog, http://www.pennpaint.blogspot.com/
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Quarry once supplied valuable ore By Mitzi Romano
Special to The Citizen The Cheshire Historical Society has unleashed another tale from none other than The History Hound. Join us as we embark on this edition of “Digging into Cheshire.” Have you ever wondered about the quarry for which the Quarry Village Condominiums at the Notch are named? In “From Glaciers to Greenhouses, Cheshire Then and Now”, Town Historian Jeanne Chesanow calls it a traprock quarry. “Traprock” does not sound as glam-
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orous as brownstone or granite or marble. But it is Connecticut’s most valuable mineral. It is crushed for use in construction and in the bedding of roads. In Cheshire, it was quarried at just this one location In continuing our “digging” for information, we found an important piece of the puzzle at the Online Mineral Museum website. There, we found a reference to the “New Haven Trap Rock Quarry” in Cheshire, where a natrolite specimen had been collected circa 1950. Interestingly, the name “New Haven Trap Rock Quarry” led us to an article about the Branford Steam Railroad. As it turns out,
The History Hound on a recent expedition to sniff out the location of the old quarry in the vicinity of Peck Mountain. Mitzi Romano, Cheshire Historical Society
owners of quarry property in North Branford incorporated their quarry business as the New Haven Trap Rock Company in 1914. In 1935, this company merged with the Connecticut Quarries Company, and then reincorporated the company under the New Haven Trap Rock Company name. The merged company operated six Connecticut quarries, including See Hound, A12
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Cheshire quarry had ceased operations), the New Haven Trap Rock Company merged with Angelo Tomasso, Inc., which eventually became known as Tilcon-Tomasso. Chesanow notes that the quarry was in operation for about 20 years, ceasing operations sometime in the 1950s. Some additional “sniffing” around the internet uncovered a reference to “An old, long inactive traprock quarry in Peck Mountain on the West Rock,” noting that the exact dates of activity are uncertain, but the quarry is not mentioned in any documents before 1931, and by 1971, it is referred to as “inactive.”
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Wilcox Tech should call Carlos Cintron “The Daily Double.” The senior forward is usually good for one whenever he and the 6-2 Indians take the court. Cintron put up his latest double-double on Feb. 24 when he scored 16 points and pulled down 10 rebounds against Kaynor Tech. The night before, against Whitney Tech, Cintron scored a season-high 19 points, including in 11 in the fourth quarter. He’s averaging 12.5 a game.
In the stretch of sharpshooting and gaudy point totals that marked the final week of February boys basketball, the marksman down in Ramland was unquestionably Luke Nieman. The junior shooting guard hit for a season-high 22 points against East Haven on Feb. 22 and kept rolling with 20 vs. Hamden and 15 in Branford. Nieman has knocked 21 3-pointers this season and he leads Cheshire at 16.2 points a game.
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It was pretty clear on opening day that Henry Smith was going to have a good season for Platt basketball. The junior guard registered a team-high 17 points that day. Smith hasn’t let up since, and on Saturday he had a monster day in Wethersfield, cranking out 32 points in Platt’s 76-60 victory. Smith also pulled down 11 rebounds, dished five assists and pocketed five steals. He leads the Panthers with 17.5 points a game.
What a terrific two-game series between Lyman Hall and Sheehan hockey at Northford Ice Pavilion. LH took the opener 3-2 on Saturday; Sheehan answered 4-2 on Monday. Neither team lacked for stars. From Sheehan, we go with a senior who scored in both games. Dylan Hennessey sniped one over Brendan Reddington’s shoulder in Game 1, then knocked home a bouncing puck from just inside the blue line in Game 2.
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The Maloney Spartans hit the second half of this shortened season at 6-0, with their biggest win coming Feb. 22 in Middletown against the previously unbeaten Blue Dragons. Senior Jeremiah Williams was huge for Maloney that night. He scored a team-high 17 points, which matched his season high, and hit some free throws in the waning seconds to ice the 50-45 victory. Williams followed with 14 points Thursday vs. Berlin.
Lyman Hall also had a senior score in both games of the Wallingford series, and that was Tommy Ralston. Following a play to the net on Saturday, Ralston put himself in position to convert a rebound and did so with back-handed flair. That goal, coming with 5:48 left, was the game-winner in Lyman Hall’s 3-2 victory. In Monday’s 4-2 defeat, Ralston pulled LH to within 3-2 late in the second period by scoring on a breakaway.
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A SHOT IN THE ARM After waiting for a four week interval between the first and second doses, eligible Cheshire senior citizens, who’d registered for the program, received their second round of the Moderna vaccine at the Cheshire Community Pool clinic Feb. 25. One senior citizen, who was among those getting the second installment of the COVID-19 shot, was Inge Venus, seen here at left, with Chesprocott Health Director Maura Esposito. After getting her shot, Venus said it felt as if “a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders.”
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