...detail of Smith/Nichols monument
...relief sculpture on Starr Hoyt Nichols's monument
...meditation moment at Martha Nichols Kellogg's monument
Monday, August 24, 2009
history detectives
Our first serious genealogy stop on our summer vacation was Danbury, CT, where we are looking into our Nichols/Averill/Starr/etc. roots. My daughter can't read yet, but she knows her letters, so was a more than able advance scout as we looked for names in the vastness of Wooster Cemetery...
...detail of Smith/Nichols monument
...relief sculpture on Starr Hoyt Nichols's monument
...meditation moment at Martha Nichols Kellogg's monument
...detail of Smith/Nichols monument...relief sculpture on Starr Hoyt Nichols's monument...meditation moment at Martha Nichols Kellogg's monument
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Wonder how much Danbury has changed -- we lived there for several years, left in summer of 1963. I remember it had a beautiful library; a wonderful county fair where they had a whole tent devoted to P.T. Barnum and displayed a copy of the Cardiff Giant; and a nice historic house, the Scott-Fanton Museum, where I volunteered as "Junior Curator". My mother worked for a very nice real estate agent who, when he was a small boy, once shined the shoes of Mark Twain ...
we actually met with an archivist at the historical museum (which is getting an interior renovation) who couldn't have been nicer and has been helping me research our family's roots. Unfortunately the S-F museum was closed (she opened the archives for us on a Monday when everyone else was off), so I will have to go back sometime. We picked up a copy of Arcadia Publishing's Danbury, which has lots of pix that might interest you. Funny (and great) coincidence that KB will be publishing with them too!
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