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Part 2 Washington History Club Issue6 Fall 2017 T ABLE OF CONTENTS Page 2 Curator’s Corner Page 6 Our Favorite Artifacts Page 3 Library Mysteries - Part 2 Page 7 Museum Operating Income & Expenses, Volunteer Thank Page 4 Washington History Club You Page 5 Orphan Tombstone Page 8 Upcoming Museum Programs THE 10TH ANNUAL C URATOR’ S CORNER WASHINGTON GREEN by Stephen Bartkus CEMETERY TOUR I AM History was the theme of the annual conference of the American Association for State and Local SPECIAL THANKS TO SANDY BOOTH History which I attended on a recent vacation to For her costume selection, advice and creative input. Austin, Texas in September. We spoke about who we serve as historians in our communities and the Dorothy Ambruso Rey Matos methodologies being used to ensure that all people’s Denise Arturi Doug McHan histories are being told. I have always believed that David Babington Josh McHan everyone has a story to tell and have endeavored to Sage Baker Robin McHan collect, preserve, and share those diverse Washington Christopher Bernard & Joe Mustich histories at the Gunn Historical Museum. Remember, Gunnery Students Dawn O’Creene history is happening every day, everywhere, to everyone! Kerry Burns Craig Ough & Rumsey Hall Carol & Dane Deleppo School Students Our Washington History Club, which Kristin Nord Mary DuLude Ann Quackenbos writes about in this issue, has proven to be a wildly Bryon Erreyes Susan Read popular format for community storytelling. Meeting both in the morning and evening to accommodate Nick Erreyes Madeline Revere different schedules, for the past five years the History Isabella Guzman Aileen Rosa Club has brought current and former residents Lydia Hagen William Smith together to share their rich memories of Washington. Nancy Hagen Jack Sorbara Eileen Hearn John Sorbara We continue to record and archive oral history interviews at the museum. Most recently we were Kayleigh Hendy Sal Sorce honored to record an interview with 100 year old Kate Barbara Jackson Karen Stansbury Tallmadge, a lifelong summer resident of Lake Charles Jackson Deborah Stevens Waramaug. If you or someone you know has a Dana Jackson Jackie Thayer Washington story to tell, please contact me at Susan Jackson Jessica Thayer [email protected]. Henry James Lena Warner Our national award winning annual history project Bill King Lisa Warner with the Shepaug Valley Middle School continued this Julie King Sadie Warner year. All of the 8th grade students transcribed 29 Wyatt King Steve Warner letters of Washington Civil War soldier Dwight Richard Kleinberg Joseph Weingart Hollister from the Gunn Historical Museum and Alexa Kotas Jennifer Whittlesey learned about the Civil War through the actual Christian Kummer Sally Woodroofe experiences of Washington residents. Dwight lived at Elizabeth Lecher Woody Woodroofe 204 Nettleton Hollow Road in Washington, the home Sydell Lecher Jessica Zaccagnini of the late Georgia Middlebrook, and he joined the 8th Connecticut Regiment, Co. I. The students published Kaylee Martinez Chris Zaima their work, in collaboration with the Gunn Museum, DONATIONS in a book, “Dwight Hollister: A Life in Letters”, which Thank you to Averill Farm for yummy treats; Tanya contains transcriptions of all the letters, plus research, Cicarelli, Washington Club Hall Manager, for use of the photographs, essays, poems, and illustrations by the Club Hall; Monica Neumann, General Manager of The students. The book is now available to check out from Mayflower Grace, for lights and Washington Cemetery the Connecticut Room at the Gunn Library with your Association for use of the cemetery. library card. Cover photograph: Haying in New Preston, CT circa 1900 Newsletter edited by with the New Preston Congregational Church in the distance. Photograph by Newman Hungerford. Lisa Breese, Operations Manager 2 LIBRARY MYSTERIES - PART 2 by Jane Dodd Rouillion Boyer, Former President of the Gunn Memorial Library & Museum 1992-1994 the exhibit, pointed out to me that the Charles and Frederick Lamb, who were listed as guests in his book, were stained glass artisans. A quick trip to my computer not only gave me history of J&R Lamb Studios, founded in 1857, but it also gave me a current email address! To find a business still in business a hundred and forty years later absolutely amazed me. I immediately sent off an email and shortly received a reply from Mr. Donald Samik, president and historian of the Lamb Studio. He wrote that they really didn't have records from that era, but if I could send him some photographs of the window, he could tell me if it was made in their studio. Another period of time passed, and finally I got pen, paper and the photographs together. Towards the end of August, 2005, I received a letter from Mr. Samik. "Thank you for the photographs of the lovely stained - Continued from our last issue (No. 5). glass window. There is no doubt that it is a J&R Lamb This left the mystery of the stained glass window. I had Studios window, designed by Frederick Stymetz Lamb. been told that often stained glass artists signed their The style of the window and the painting of the flesh is works somewhere along the lead strips between the identical to work done by him. The Lambs' never signed pieces of glass, and often they were very obscure. their work and that is why there is no signature." As a result, I spent fruitless hours looking. Finally, it Thus, my second artistic mystery of the Gunn Memorial was obvious that a different tact needed to be taken. Library was solved. My final investigation was not really a I asked Benedict Silverman, a resident who had had a mystery but more a question. What does the “H” in H. great Tiffany collection, whether he knew of anyone Siddons Mowbray stand for? This was easy to solve. who could come and possibly identify the window. He Outside the old front door to the library there is a plaque invited Alistair Duncan, a Tiffany expert, to meet us at inscribed Henry Siddons Mowbray. Many years ago his the Library. Alistair said that the window was neither daughter-in-law, Peg Mowbray Jones, told me his first Tiffany nor John La Farge. He suggested we look at the name was Harry not Henry. With excellent directions microfiche records of local newspapers from June of from Peg Addicks, who knows where absolutely 1908. If this brought nothing, he said that often stained everybody rests in the cemetery next to St. Johns, I went glass could be identified by the technique used to his gravestone. His first name was Harry. in painting the faces. So, my mysteries about the Gunn Memorial Library have My search in 1908 newspapers produced fascinating been solved. The journey was fascinating and personally I reading but little information of the opening of the wish there were more puzzles. As you uncover one little Gunn Memorial Library, and absolutely nothing about piece it inevitably leads you to something else quite the stained glass window. It was not until 1997 that a surprising and your curiosity makes you want to uncover new potential source appeared. more. Although you are looking for the answer, there is a piece of you, at least of me, that never wants it to end. The Museum had a wonderful exhibit on Ehrick K. Rossiter. One of the items displayed was Rossiter's Complete story available at gunnlibrary.org under the “About guest book. Amanda Austin, who was very involved in Us” tab. 3 WASHINGTON HISTORY CLUB by Kristin Nord On the third Monday mornings in September, continue to exert an December, March, and June, or the third Tuesday influence upon our rural evenings in November, February, and May, members of community? the History Club take on aspects of Washington’s illustrious story. At the final spring meeting Rimsky was among the Stephen Bartkus, curator of the Gunn Historical many audience members Museum, heads up the morning sessions at the that took on the life and Washington Senior Center, while Dimitri Rimsky, who times of favorite post- conjured the springtime of his boyhood so poignantly in World War 2 jalopies. the past issue of this publication, and is a volunteer at Ostensibly the evening’s Gunn Historical Museum, is at the helm as evening host. topic was Washington’s It’s a job both clearly relish, and Bartkus has made it an historic gas stations; but additional point to broadcast all programs live on the the subscript was the museum’s Facebook page as well. “Capturing and relationship that so many Stanley and Elmer Gunnarson, preserving oral histories is a way to celebrate the twists teenagers had with the Gunnarson’s Garage, School Street, and turns in the town’s life.” Bartkus said. town’s skilled mechanics. If the confluence of people, industry and geography “The tradition of working on cars had, of course, started made Washington an industrial hub in the early 19th in the 1930s and 1940s - young men lying in the mud on century, the arrival of the railroad, Washington’s their backs, who later found a calling,” Rimsky recalled. proximity to New York City, and its inherent natural “With their help we all learned how to change the oil in beauty, fueled the arrival of wealthy weekenders. our cars, and learned what a fan belt and a carburetor Washington Depot, once known as Factory Hollow, has was. We all learned how to fix a flat tire. And of course, become a trading center for culture and amenities. The many of us were farm kids, and we had grown up architect Ehrick Rossiter by the late 1800s had operating farm vehicles long before we ever got behind transformed the Washington Green into an idealized the wheel of a car.” “I suspect a good number of us have a version of a New England village.
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