Lloyd Hull, Word War II veteran, attended the opening of Oral History Project’s exhibit on his service at Greenwich Library on Thursday Continue Reading →
Lloyd Hull Honored At Opening of Oral History Exhibit
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Greenwich Historical Society Installs Time Capsule and Cornerstone
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On Saturday, the Greenwich Historical Society installed a time capsule and cornerstone at the site of their new campus, scheduled to open in 2018. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Around Town, Greenwich History, Greenwich Historical Society, time capsule
Chancy D’Elia: A Greenwich Businesswoman Who Persevered
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Written by Olivia Luntz. Chancy D’Elia ran the Chancy D’Elia clothing store on Greenwich Avenue from 1932 until 2005. The operation started with a few pieces sold at the front of her uncle’s Snappy Cleaners. In 1932, she went to New York with her sister with $270 in the bank. They bought a few skirts, dresses, and sweaters, which were all snatched up immediately by one customer. In January 1945 she bought the building at 244 Greenwich Avenue, where her business operated until 2005. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Around Town, Business, Greenwich History, Chancy D'Elia, Greenwich Library, Olivia Luntz, The Oral History Project
Making the Historic Merritt Parkway Safer for People and Trees Alike
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In 2000, two Greenwich High School seniors, volunteering for the Red Cross, were killed when their Jaguar coupe slid off the parkway at a curve in the highway into a ditch, striking a tree resulting in their deaths.
Unfortunately, this was not a unique accident, but the culmination of a number of similar nonfatal accidents in that same section of the Merritt. Continue Reading →