Griswold

December 20, 2007 -- NEW YORK -- In the course of routine surveillance, Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following Township of Griswold, Connecticut rating:...

If and when trade and globalization come up at the Democratic National Convention next week, I can almost guarantee that the take will be negative. It has become part of the party’s core message these days that free trade favors the ...

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The Buttonwood Farm in eastern Connecticut planted an acre of sunflowers in 2003, simply for their beauty. As the field became better known and more heavily visited, the farm started to plant more acres (now up to 14!) and sell bouquets as a fundraiser for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. The fields are amazingly beautiful, and were absolutely crawling with photographers today. :-) You can read more about this unique and worthwhile endeavor here: www.sunflowersforwishes.com/. Their ice cream is delicious, too!

The sheer size of these fields is probably unique in all of New England; but if you've heard of other major sunflower plantings, please let me know...

With respect to photography, this is one case where I think film may have been able to better capture the descending sun than digital: the sun was a blood-red orb for real, and digital sensors just can't seem to capture that. If anyone has ideas on how to better approximate such impressive suns, I'd be very interested! I'd even photoshop one in, if I could find a better one :-)

Thomas Wright, the settler, came from Watertown before 1639. He had one homestead. three and one-half acres on the west side of High street, on which his house was built; probably before 1639; Robert Abbott, north, and Samuel Clark, south. Another homestead was received in 1654, a house, barn and five acres of land, bought of Samuel Hale, on the west side of Back street, between Luke Hitchcock, north, and land belonging to Matthew Griswold, south. He bought of Richard Belden a lot of twenty and a half acres in Westfield in 1654. He became by purchase the owner of a large part of the Great Island, thereafter known as "Wright's Island," which mostly he gave to his sons, Thomas and James, who bought other parcels of the island. Thomas had the north part and James the south part.

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