JULY
17, 2005 --
On
August 19, Stand Proud and Tall with Winsted -- in Winsted.
LPR again was in Winsted, Connecticut, July 12, taking more photos in this
northwest Connecticut city that once was hub to a number of summer camps, including
Berkshire, Birchwood, Delaware, Wabigoon and Wahanda.
First LPR got a photo of Main Street looking west, from Elm Street (once home
of Pete's Steak House), and then a photo of 448 Main, now home to Mediabids
and
Guy Gilchrist's studio and academy (and previously home of The Evening Citizen
and then, from 1993 to 2003, of The Voice.)
LPR then drove up Spencer Hill Road to the site of Camps Wabigoon and Wahanda
-- gone, now, more than 30
years, and got a photo from the southern end of Rowley's Pond which had been
the camps' waterfront.
Next, a stop at Highland Lake for photos of youngsters fishing, ducks swimming
(but not people that day -- the lake was being chemically treated LPR was told),
a
boat patrolling, and Shana wading.
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The
Dairy Queen on Main Street across from Rowley Park
in Winsted.
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Then, back to town for a photo of Dairy Queen, at Main Street, across from the
city green since 1953, and a photo of the memorial on the green, near the Civil
War
statue, to the people who lost their lives in the Flood of 1955: Josephine D.
Cornelius, John M. Gould, Maney Leshay, Mary C. Machrone, Sinclair L. Meggison,
William A. Samele and Concettena Zappula.
LPR recalls that the previous week, Winsted had been hit by rain from Hurricane
Carol. Then, sunshine for some five days, and, the night of August 17, Hurricane
Diane struck, continuing all the
following day.
The calendar of 1955 is identical with the calendar of 2005 -- August 19 again
falls on a Friday -- as it did in 1955, when Winsted learned that the flooding
Mad River had taken seven lives and turned Main Street into a road of rubble,
destroying many of the buildings that
rose above its north bank.
What a good thing it would be for people, particularly those who were in Winsted
on August 19, 1955, to show their support
and visit this valiant city on the 50th anniversary of the flood.
On August 19, 2005, stand proud and tall with Winsted -- in Winsted.
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A
view down Main Street in Winsted.
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Memorial
to the victims of the Flood of 1955.
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