Mailed free to requesting homes in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. VII, No. 43 Complimentary home delivery (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] Friday, September 5, 2014 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE FUN AT THE FAIR “The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.” Oscar Wilde INSIDE A8 — OPINION B1-4 — SPORTS Adam Minor photo B3 — LEGALS Kate Hay, 4, and her older sister Alex, 11, of Woodstock take a moment to pose for a picture B5 — REAL ESTATE on tractor near the Brunn Barn Complex. B6-7— OBITS B8 — CLASSIFIEDS Charlie Lentz photo Youngsters enjoy a ride on the midway. LOCAL Charlie Lentz photo With their Brown Swiss, Lucy, from Rock Maple Farm in Eastford, from left, Kyle Buell, Conner The Villager Buell, Alexis Buell, Brianna Spink, Amber Buell and Taylor Buell. Interview WOODSTOCK — Woodstock’s Labor Day tradition continued for the 154th year Page A3 last weekend, as the annual Woodstock Fair invaded the Quiet Corner, drawing Adam Minor photo thousands upon thousands to the Woodstock Fairgrounds. For more photos, turn Yummy! Aiden Danforth, 5, of Uxbridge, Mass., to pages A6-A7! Also, several fair-related stories are located throughout this edition! SPORTS takes a gigantic (and messy) chomp out of a fried dough. A cutting edge artist FORMER ELECTRICIAN PICKS UP A CHAINSAW IN THE NAME OF ART BY CHARLIE LENTZ Killingly soccer VILLAGER STAFF WRITER WOODSTOCK — looks to rebound Chainsaw artist isn’t an in Class M occupation that guaran- Page B1 tees a steady income. So Adam Mulholland knew he was working without a net when he gave up his FINANCIAL FOCUS job as an electrician. But splicing wires and con- PAGE A9 necting lighting systems no longer held a jolt for the TAKE THE HINT 39-year-old, so he decided it was time to try some- PAGE A10 thing cutting edge. “I was a licensed Connecticut electrician Charlie Lentz photo for 20 years and I saw somebody use a chainsaw George and Sandy Groom at the Connecticut Audubon to carve an eagle out of Society’s booth at the Woodstock Fair. Redwood and sold it for $75,000,” Mulholland said. “That’s when I decided I wanted to do that. When I Their hobby carved my first piece I quit Visit our website with Charlie Lentz photo my job three days later.” your smart phone or tablet Chainsaw artist Adam Mulholland shows off his work at the Just over two years ago, takes flight device! Woodstock Fair. Turn To CUTTING page A5 Just scan the “QR code” below with your device and GROOMS PROMOTE AUDUBON instantly be linked to our website, www.villagernews- AT WOODSTOCK FAIR papers.com, where you can Brooklyn getting new website read the PDF versions of BY CHARLIE LENTZ “George and I have par- our newspapers! It’s as easy BY JASON BLEAU Brooklyn has chosen looked pretty, but wasn’t VILLAGER STAFF WRITER ticularly done Friday as that! NEWS STAFF WRITER Virtual Schools out of very functional and was WOODSTOCK — Like mornings for maybe the BROOKLYN — A new Massachusetts to do the hard to navigate and store songbirds returning to last six years or so.” website is on the way for work. Around six vendors things on. More impor- the Quiet Corner each The Grooms greet the town of Brooklyn as responded to a call for bids tantly to me is [that] it spring, George and Sandy fairgoers during a four- part of an attempt to be for the project and Virtual was basically a one-way Groom migrate to the hour stint in the soci- more connected with res- Schools was the lowest at site and a way to put out Woodstock Fair every ety’s booth. It’s a labor idents and increase com- under $5,000. information. We’ll contin- Labor Day weekend to of love for the couple, munication between tax- “We outgrew it, frank- ue to do that with the new sing the praises of the who have been married payers and town officials. ly,” said Ives of the town’s website, but people will be Connecticut Audubon for 49 years. They live First Selectman Rick current, outdated website. able to be interactive with Society. in Pomfret Center, right Ives confirmed the move “It’s a system that was it.” “This has been a tra- last week, stating that sort of created for us. It Turn To WEBSITE page A5 dition,” Sandy said. Turn To HOBBY page A16 A2 • Friday, September 5, 2014 KILLINGLY VILLAGER Back to school … in 1914 Since school is just begin- grades 1-8, 9. East Brooklyn: tion on noted individu- men who used crude imple- ning, I thought you might find Miss Arnold, grades 6-8, 15; als from Killingly and ments to dig a tunnel and it interesting to read a little Miss Day, grades 3-5, 23; Northeastern Connecticut. escape from the prison, but about the schools and teach- Miss Keech, grades 1-2, 17. KILLIngLY While reading Patricia F. he was recaptured about forty ers 100 years ago. Brooklyn Center: Miss Ryan Staley’s “Norwich in the miles away. He was returned This summary of school grades 5-8, 29; Miss Lawton, at 300 Gilded Age: The Rose City’s to prison until exchanged and attendance in February 1914 grades 11-4. Gilbert: Miss Millionaires’ Triangle,” paroled in March 1864. is quite intriguing. Note the Wood, grades 1-6, 15. Stetson, I learned about Civil War “When relieved of parole various schools and the atten- Mr. Kinmonth, grades 1-8, 8. MARGARET General William G. Ely two months later, Colonel Ely dance figures. Perhaps you Night School. 4 months end- WEAVER who was born in Killingly rejoined the army and was recall an older relative talking ing February 27 — 41.8 (per- in 1836. The son of Jesse S. given command of a brigade. about some of the teachers. I’ll haps average attendance).” and Harriet (Grosvenor) Ely At the Battle of Piedmont in also give the number of pupils (WCT3/5/1914). were located. O.W. Gray’s 1869 who were living in Norwich June 1864, he was wounded in enrolled in each class. St. James School was not map of Killingly in his “Atlas by 1850, William was bap- the throat and resigned from Danielson: Miss Tripp, included in the listing. of Windham and Tolland tized in the Congregational the army because of the dis- grade 8, 26; Miss Smith, grade Linden Whipple said that Counties, Connecticut” shows Church on Killingly Hill (now ability. He was later brevetted 7, 16; Miss Stanton, grade 6, Mr. Shippee was his Uncle where most of the above men- Putnam Heights) on Nov. 18, a brigadier general.” (p.85, 86). 30; Miss Wetherell, grade 5, Will, Willis H. Shippee, tioned ones in rural Killingly 1837. The home of his paternal I hope to have the pleasure 20; Miss Woodworth, grade 4, his grandfather’s brother. were located. Tucker District grandparents Dr. Robert and of meeting Patricia Staley 27; Miss Hammett, grade 3, 32; Linden’s mother’s family School was situated at the cor- Mary Grosvenor was north of since she is presenting a LIR Miss Abel, grade 2, 30; Miss lived in Elmville so his mother ner of Tucker District Road the church and is still stand- program on The Millionaire’s Colvin, grade 1, 38. (Imagine, and uncles went to that school and Roth Road in the north- ing across from the Putnam Triangle at QVCC. It will be 38 first graders!) Dayville: although only the uncles had eastern part of Town. The Heights Cemetery. most interesting to see what Miss F. Fuller, grades 6-8, 19; Uncle Will. Uncle Will did not Killingly Center School is now I believe that Jesse Ely she adds on Ely and to see Miss Capron, grades 3-5, 28; play favorites with the neph- Killingly Grange #112, located operated a store in the vicin- if she speaks about Leonard Miss E. Fuller, grades 1-2, 34. ews and may even have been at the corner of Route 101 and ity of the present St. James Ballou (founder of Ballouville) Attawaugan: Miss McCon’ell, harder on them. Linden also Dog Hill Road. For a photo Church in Danielson prior to who also moved to Norwich. grades 6-8, 15; Miss Marland, told a story about his Uncle see Natalie L. Coolidge’s and moving to Norwich where he Did you ever play with grades 4-5, 22; Miss Frisell, Melvin, who was quite a char- Robert A. Spencer’s “Images continued as a merchant and marbles as a child? I remem- grades 2-3, 26; Miss Leader, acter. It seems that one day, of America Killingly,” p. 88. became tax collector and was ber spending hours shoot- grades 1-2, 20. Ballouville: Melvin locked another boy in Page 126 of that same vol- one of the individuals who ing them at recess. You Miss Duffee: grades, 5-8, 17; the woodshed then went home ume contains a picture of the lived in what Staley called won’t want to miss the next Miss Spaulding, grades 2-4, for lunch. When he returned South Killingly School. A sec- “the millionaires’ triangle.” meeting of the Killingly 30; Miss Holley, grades 1-2, to school, Melvin cautiously ond photo, on page 123, shows (Staley, p. 83) Historical and Genealogical 34. Williamsville: Miss White: walked around the woodshed. how it was situated adja- Jesse and his family appear Society on Saturday, Sept.