Volume 29, Number 21
Friday, May 26, 2023
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Eagle Scout project shines a light on slavery era Press Release
Connecticut has a complicated history with slavery. Many people don’t know that the state had New England’s largest slave population (2,648 counted in the 1790 census) and was one of the later New England states to completely end the practice (1848). See Project, A7
COMMENTARY
Honoring those who didn’t I Nuri Run highlights Saint return Sebastian’s Church festival from war The “Nuri” run on Peters Lane in Middlefield before turning onto Route 66 in Middlefield.
By Frank LoGiudice Special to the Town Times
MIDDLETOWN — “E Chiamamulu Paisanu! Primu Diu E Sammastianu!” This Italian phrase, which means “He’s one of our own! First God and then Saint Sebastian,” was said
with plenty of enthusiasm from the Nuri gathered at the Saint Sebastian’s Cemetery in Middlefield and the Sons of Italy in Middletown en route to the Saint Sebastian’s Church in Middletown for the annual I Nuri Run on Sunday, May 22. The “Nuri” are dressed in white
Photo by Frank LoGiudice
with a red sash across their upper body with a picture of Saint Sebastian pinned on it. They run barefoot through the streets of Middlefield and Middletown. They are dressed like this because, according to 11-year-old Gianluca See Festival, A8
More than 1.2 million Americans have been killed during war time, with some 600,000 of those casualties coming in our bloody Civil War. The number of Americans lost in battle also includes 405,399 in World War II, 90,220 in Vietnam and nearly 7,000 in the ongoing War on Terror. See Honoring, A2