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| Author | : Jack Sanders |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1467118141 |
Time nearly erased many astounding tales and unexpected anecdotes from Ridgefield's history. Its colorful characters include a widow who built a landmark Manhattan hotel, her neighbor who invented one of the first "helicopters" and a CIA operative who helped one thousand Americans flee Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Lesser known are the stories of the Ridgefield artists who gave the world Superman and Lowly Worm and brought the Wild West to life. One local writer helped make Hawthorne famous, while another penned thousands of hymns still sung around the globe. Join retired newspaper editor Jack Sanders as he uncovers nearly forgotten people and moments of Ridgefield's past.
| Author | : George Lounsbury Rockwell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 732 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Connecticut |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jack Sanders |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 1 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1467136824 |
Ridgefield is no stranger to life's shadier characters. The history of this idyllic community includes cunning crooks, suburban embezzlers, bungling burglars and wandering scallywags. In 1894, a group of bank robbers literally blew it in a heist at the Saving Bank--the explosion attracted witnesses to see the gang miss out on a grand haul of fifty dollars. Half a decade later, in 1940, a skeleton whose origins still befuddle experts was unearthed in a tree nursery. This look at the darker side of Ridgefield's past includes sad and tragic moments as well, such as newlyweds imprisoned in the Tombs, the Satanists of the '70s and a hermit murdered for love. Local editor Jack Sanders tells fascinating tales of two centuries of Ridgefield criminals, n'er-do-wells and even wayward do-gooders in this entertaining--and occasionally humorous--glimpse into some of the town's wickedest moments.
| Author | : Jack Sanders |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2015-08-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1625856008 |
Time nearly erased many astounding tales and unexpected anecdotes from Ridgefield's history. Its colorful characters include a widow who built a landmark Manhattan hotel, her neighbor who invented one of the first "helicopters" and a CIA operative who helped one thousand Americans flee Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Lesser known are the stories of the Ridgefield artists who gave the world Superman and Lowly Worm and brought the Wild West to life. One local writer helped make Hawthorne famous, while another penned thousands of hymns still sung around the globe. Join retired newspaper editor Jack Sanders as he uncovers nearly forgotten people and moments of Ridgefield's past.
| Author | : Professor Silvio A Bedini |
| Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2021-09-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781014352071 |
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| Author | : George Lounsbury Rockwell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 583 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Registers of births, etc |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738535388 |
In Ridgefield, a cannonball remains lodged in the side of an old tavern, evidence of the Battle of Ridgefield fought here during the Revolutionary War. The town's history dates back to 1708, when two dozen settlers from Norwalk purchased the land from the Ramapoo Indians. Founders carved Ridgefield from the wilderness, and members of the Congregational Church designed its wide, beautiful Main Street. In the mid-1800s, families immigrated from Ireland; in the late nineteenth century, New Yorkers discovered Ridgefield to be an ideal summer place. As the town developed, Italian stonemasons and other workers arrived to build roads and sewer lines. Ridgefield has been the home of two Connecticut governors, and of celebrities from the arts, sports, and entertainment fields. Stone walls still abound in Ridgefield, and the road that once roared with cannon fire ranks as one of the state's most beautiful streets.
| Author | : Ridgefield (Conn.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 1935 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Rich Cohen |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2021-01-12 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0374720584 |
A New York Times bestselling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey Rich Cohen, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, turns his attention to matters closer to home: his son’s elite Pee Wee hockey team and himself, a former player and a devoted hockey parent. In Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, Cohen takes us through a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey, Pee Wees follows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the twelve-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, conniving, and cursing in the stands. It is a book about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both.
| Author | : Jack Sanders |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2003-02-28 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1439628637 |
Ridgefield has long been a destination-for tourists seeking a picturesque country village, for city dwellers looking for a weekend and summer retreat, and for immigrants in search of a new life. In the first half of the twentieth century, a period that corresponded to the heyday of the picture postcard, hundreds of views were published, depicting the beautiful Main Street, the many inns and resorts, the mansions, estates, village shops, churches, and scenic hills and lakes. Ridgefield: 1900-1950 offers more than two hundred of these glimpses of a bygone time of affluence and change-what one historian has called Ridgefield's golden era.
