FRIDAY, JUNE 24 • YOUTH DAY EVENTS, FREE BLOCK DANCE, FIREWORKS

— timeline — continued

1924 - The Nehemiah Royce house is saved from “the wrecking ball.” It is moved to an open lot on the west side of N. Main St. by one horse walking around a capston, while over a score of men pleced 12” logs under the house as it moved across the street. 1924 - Ulbrich Stainless Steel established (Initially Fred Ulbrich Sr. was a scrap metal dealer. That modest start has led to a very successful specialty steel company.) 1924 - White Way Laundry was established on the banks of Community Lake 1925 - Saint Peter and Paul Church was founded. 1925 - Carolyn Loomis, valevictorian of the LHHS class of 1926, pens the LHHS school song & it is approved by the Senior Class. 1926 - Senior Twilight Baseball League is started 1926 - Langdon Fernald comes to LHHS as a teacher & coach. He would lead LHHS teams to many Housatonic League Championships, including 6 straight from 1928 through 1933. He would later become principal from 1945-1960. 1926 - Lyman Hall High School wins its 1st Housatonic League Football Championship. 1927 - A carillon of bells is installed in the 1st Congregational Church 1927 - Ferdinand Valenti starts Valenti Auto, selling Nash & Lafayette cars & International trucks, later Plymouth & Dodge & now Chevrolets since 1955 1927 - Major Gervais Raoul Lufbery Airport was dedicated 1929 - Airline railroad passenger service ends and East Wallingford Station closes (now a house) 1929 - Stock Market Crash and the start of the Great Depression 1931 - Doolittle Park opens 1931-32 - Famed Yale athlete, Albie Booth, spends 3 months at Gaylord after contracting pleurisy 1932 - In order to make way for the dredging of a new reservoir, the town of Wallingford gave the Muddy River one-room schoolhouse to Oscar Williams, a farmer living on nearby Williams Road where it remained stored in his barn until 1998. 1932 - Washington Trail bronze plaques mark the route taken by George Wahington through Wallingford in 1775 & 1789 on the 200th anniversary of his birth 1934 - The small “Quinny” power plant off Toelle’s Rd burns down along with several small, historic factories 1935 - John F Kennedy graduated from Choate School (voted mostly likely to succeed by his classmates) 1935 - The last District School (Cook Hill, a oneroom schoolhouse) closes 1935 - The Works Progress Administration (or, WPA) was a New Deal agency enacted in 1935 to provide jobs for unemployed (often unskilled)

Wallingford School in 1908

Friday, June 24th: Youth Day

Media Sponsor: Record-Journal Media Group

3 PM - 4 PM 45 MINUTE SIMON SEZ PERFORMANCE

Host: Wallingford Parks and Recreation South Main Street, in front of the Town Hall Event Chairwoman: Michelle Bjorkman Featuring Steve Max, Master of Simon Sez, a full -time professional Simon Sez caller/ leader. Steve has performed at NBA and NFL games, colleges and universities, and has traveled the country. Free event

10 AM - 1 PM WALLINGFORD YMCA CAMP EXTRAVAGANZA

Doolittle Park, 78 South Elm Street, Wallingford Event Chairman: Sean Doherty Invitations to all Wallingford Summer Camps Thank you to McDonalds for lunch donations and giveaways

6 - 10 PM BLOCK DANCE

Hosts: Wallingford 350th Jubilee Sponsor: Anthem, Members First CT Credit Union South Main Street in front of Town Hall Roz Gallagher - Event Chairwoman Committee: Liz Landow, Michelle Bjorkman, Johnny Rozz Featuring DJ Johnny Rozz and Sound Spectrum Music through the decades, including: Dancers and other entertainment effects A Kids Dance Party U.S. Armed Forces Military Medley Family audience participation Line Dances Treasure Box of free giveaways for the children

9:30 P.M. ESTIMATED START FIREWORKS

Sponsored by Masonicare Mark T. Sheehan High School, 142 Hope Hill Road Event Chairman - Mike McCann, Carl Anderson Free parking Fireworks Vendor: Atlas No Rain Date

Water - continued from page 35 “Thus I have finished eighteen months of service in the field, most of it arduous and fatiguing; have not slept under a roof more than eight nights during that period,” he wrote in his diary. In May 1864, Harrison entered government service as the sanitary commissioner in South Carolina and Florida, remaining until August of that year. At the end of 1864, he resumed his medical practice in Wallingford. He continued in his profession until his death in 1886 at age 75. “Seen from any point of view, Doctor Harrison was a man who would attract attention,” according to a biographical entry in the 1892 book “History of New Haven County, Connecticut.” “Socially he was an agreeable companion and a brilliant conversationalist,” the biography stated. “His eyes would sparkle and his mind open its riches of thought and humor and agreeable comment, in entertaining manner.”

Legacy left in park, rainfall records

Harrison was married three times. His first two wives died—both after only a year or two of marriage—as did a 17-year-old daughter. Harrison himself died after two years of marriage to his third wife, Sarah E. Hall. His widow—whose prominent family, the Halls, were a Wallingford founding family—granted the town the 7 acres of land, with understanding it would always be a park and not developed, as a tavern had been proposed for the site. Water continued on page 54