7 10 93 https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/f178c94fafdf326c760aa97658fce3e8.mp3 a341aa93b05b00bde49949b3d6606fa3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Milford, CT Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Larsson, Alex Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed O'Brien, Tom Location The location of the interview New Milford Library Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A conversation with Tom O'Brien Subject The topic of the resource New Milford, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource en Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Milford, CT Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Fisher, Christopher Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Devlin, William Location The location of the interview New Milford Public Library Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Conversation with William Devlin Subject The topic of the resource New Milford, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/2e756b3d6a17a2b1f92691f2f7eb7d49.wav 24928dfb9a62d823366bde1e25b22d00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Enfield, CT Subject The topic of the resource Enfield, CT Description An account of the resource Memories of Enfield, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Language A language of the resource English Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Fisher, Chris Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Hosley, William Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .mkv Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A conversation with William Hosley Subject The topic of the resource Enfield, CT Torrington, CT Hartford, CT New Milford, CT Norfolk, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 28-7-2020 Language A language of the resource English https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/1b1faa9be2c8c4a47f8d4d20b171c6ad.mp3 8a1e86ea5aff37391a2a5eeb810b0db5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Milford, CT Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Larsson, Alex Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Falk, Beatrice Location The location of the interview Phone interview Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Conversations with Beatrice Falk Subject The topic of the resource New Milford, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource June, 16 2020 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP3 Language A language of the resource English https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/6985881b421935d2064c7a3ac2f40c88.jpeg dca15117f35ca85c56b0a87478e4f902 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bridgewater, CT Subject The topic of the resource Bridgewater, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document My favorite memory of the Bridgewater Fair did not start until about 10 years after we moved to Bridgewater. We moved to Bridgewater from Danbury in May of 1969. We had never even heard of the Bridgewater Fair. We went to the Danbury Fair every year since we were kids. Danbury Fair ran for 10 days – ending on Columbus Day – always a Monday. Mr. Leahy who owned the Fair gave every Danbury student a free pass for the last Friday of the Fair. So of course we all got that day off from school. Since we lived near the Danbury Fair, as teenagers, we all sneaked into the Fair the last weekend. Some of us eventually worked at various booths; especially the church booths and the local store booths such as Marcus Dairy. The guards actually let us sneak in and the ticket booth workers (if you knew them) would just wave us in. Once in the fair, wherever we walked we could hear someone calling us – and trying to give us food or tickets for rides or shows. It really was a big fair and took several days to see everything. The Danbury Fair closed in 1981. When we took our kids to the Danbury Fair and we had to pay for everything! Soooo, years later around 1975, we went to the Bridgewater Fair for the first time and we saw the whole fair in about an hour. So we went home. When we were in Bridgewater about 10 years later, someone asked me where I was working at the Bridgewater Fair. And I said I never worked at the fair and didn’t even know how you got to work at the fair. She then told me about the phone calls she made every year to get volunteers and the excuses some women made up. She said their favorite excuse was “I’m’ expecting.” She also implied that she never called those numbers again! So I told her – “you’re looking at one of those women”! I told her I remember saying that one year and there’s my little girl, born on August 18th. So it wasn’t such a fake excuse after all. Every year I would take her to the parade and say “this parade is for you” and sometimes it was even on her birthday! Boy did she like that. Years later my daughter then told me about 2 other girls in her class had birthdays at the same time and their mothers told them the same thing. Anyway that was the year I was recruited as a volunteer and I started working the cake wheel and eventually ended up every year at the ticket booth next to the old firehouse. The most memorable thing I remember while working at the ticket booth happened years ago around 6:00 o’clock on a Friday. A plain clothes man walking on Main St, was asking everyone who he thought was working for the Fire Department, some security questions and no one seemed to have the right answers. When he came to our booth, I also could not answer his questions so I walked him over to the main office. Well after the parade, who should appear in front of me but that man! And yes, he was who he said he was - some kind of special security - for Gov Jodi Rell. And she said she personally wanted to thank me for helping him. That was about the year 2000 something. Didn’t really write these things down, but the memory remained. So what do I most enjoy about the Bridgewater Fair, it is volunteering: While working the ticket booth for the past 40 years I have met the following people: 1 – people from my old neighborhood in Danbury that I had not seen in about 60 years, how they realize who I am is a mystery 2 - kids I went to school with and meeting their kids and grandkids, 3 - classmates of my kids and meeting their kids, 4 - people who went to school with my brothers and sisters and meeting their kids and grandkids, and 5 – meeting a long lost relative I knew when he was a baby and I had not seen for about 20 years. That’s another story. Every year is another new pleasant surprise. Except this year, with the Fair cancelled, that was not a nice surprise. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data email Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A memory by Barbara Vidal Subject The topic of the resource Bridgewater, CT Bridgewater Volunteer Fire Department Bridgewater Fair Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Burnham Library Bridgewater Volunteer Fire Department Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/71e0c2083cf441d85a10a27a1ad2d8dc.jpg 1bf3ee46f208f0f4132a5896d1019e88 https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/641c6a535512ab171076b5a55efe7e6d.JPG 770009a01bcf7b03b407e206abcbfc39 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bridgewater, CT Subject The topic of the resource Bridgewater, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Language A language of the resource English Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview n/a Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Wilcox, Susan Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Fair The Bridgewater fair has always been a fascinating colorful event for me. Growing up in Brookfield CT just across the bridge was a fair. So exciting as a child and it was close by. My mom would walk me through the hobby tents and explain the details of each entry. Now I live in Bridgewater and it’s just as exciting. The firemen setting up the tents, then the rides arrive and the color begins. Throughout the year I plant from seed or bulb, flowers to grow the best specimens for the flower exhibit. Each day from April till August I nurture my plants trying to figure out what will make the fair. This particular year I had so many beautiful flowers I entered them all and I won. I won so many blue ribbons I received the Chet Boyd award. I harkened back to that year as COVID hit in March and wondered if there would be a fair this year. My flowers flourished with big colorful blooms like never before. But no fair. So I brought vases every other day to town hall to enjoy them at work. It’s just not fair there was no fair. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Email Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A memory by Susan Wilcox Subject The topic of the resource Bridgewater, CT Bridgewater Fire Department Bridgewater Fair Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-9-3 Language A language of the resource English https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/0410534f7d1e50c945ad49eb2944c549.mp3 67472b1d540dd853e072100157a2abb0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memories of Sherman Green: A collaboration with New Milford Historical Society and the Connecticut Crossroads Project. Subject The topic of the resource New Milford, CT Sherman Green Description An account of the resource Memories from a collaborative event with New Milford Historical Society focusing on Sherman Green and Green's Warehouse Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Recording Language A language of the resource English Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Chris Fisher Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Art Cummings Location The location of the interview New Milford Historical Society Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Mp3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An conversation with Art Cummings Subject The topic of the resource New Milford Historical Society Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Connecticut Crossroads Project Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Mp3 Language A language of the resource English https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/5a85a0c3aec9047a8b207b3f5daa4cac.MP3 9268c22db2d84162a70caf096723ff34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Milford, CT Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Chris Fisher Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Marilyn Lieff Location The location of the interview New Milford, CT Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An conversation with Marilyn Lieff Subject The topic of the resource New Milford, CT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Connecticut Crossroads Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Recording Language A language of the resource English https://www.ctcrossroadsproject.com/archive/files/original/f52c9e125c7aab5b764070e0d3c16f58.MP3 01bec40c21963c40b6ec8f32342a6916 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource New Milford, CT Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Chris Fisher Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Barbara Thorland Location The location of the interview New Milford Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Mp3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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