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Hello everyone,
Today would have been our April Second Saturday Program: Pet Celebration! Jessica Vogelgesang, our communications director, loves animals and had a special program planned for National Pet Day!
We were expecting to host Gizmo the dog, Connecticut author Melissa Crandall and John B. Valeri from the Hartford Books Examiner. We were also going to snap pictures of your pets to post on social media and collect donations for the Tyler Regional Animal Care Shelter.
Instead of showing off your pet at The Wood today, post a picture on one of our social media pages for the chance to win a gift certificate to Sweet Pea in South Windsor!
And, take a look at these pets from the archives at The Wood (below)!
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Best wishes,
Carolyn Venne, Executive Director
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Pets from the Wood Archives
Ellsworth Sperry's dog Spot was a common figure in East Windsor Hill. He visited the East Windsor Hill Academy every day. Below, Spot was spotted by Will Wood's kitchen door and on the schoolhouse steps. Both are from the Hildred Raymond Collection, c. 1900-1910.
The picture below is of Mabel Johnson Collins in the front yard of her house on Sullivan Avenue. The caption on the image reads, "Me + my dog 'Glen' - This is the way the house looked once upon a time." The photo is courtesy of Priscilla Snow, c.1910-1925.
This next image is of young Charlotte Andross Collins, (daughter of Francis Bidwell Andross and May Meckl Andross), in her grandmother Andross' yard on Main Street in South Windsor. Charlotte is flanked by two large dogs named Prince and Woofie. From the Andross and S. R. Collins Family Collection, 1931.
The image below is of Fred Chapman as a young man with his hunting dog named Lion. Chapman was a South Windsor farmer who worked as a fur trapper in the winter to supplement his income. Part of the South Windsor Historical Society Photograph Collection, c. 1920.
I spy with my little eye... a cat asleep on the couch in the parlor of the Grant Homemstead (also known as the Ebenezer Grant House) on Main Street in South Windsor. From the Ebenezer Grant Collection, c. 1900.
And last but not least, Edna Jennings holding a cat. From the Hildred Raymond Collection, c. 1900-1910.
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