Description: Letter addressed to 'Plantsville School Teachers', reporting 'Mrs. A. McSorley' as the acting principal at Plantsville School for the remainder of 1944. Letter is dated January 13, 1944.
Description: Teacher's contract for Doris P. McSorley with the Board of Education of Southington, CT. Rate listed is $1250 per year. Dated October 26th, 1942.
Description: Employment offer addressed to Mrs. Andrew McSorley, from the Board of Education of Southington, CT. Offer is for the school year of 1942 - 1943 at a pay rate of $1250 per year, teaching in 7th grade at Plantsville School. Dated October 15, 1942
Description: Renovation of the Macfarlan house ca. 1947. The woman on the left is Robin Freeman’s grandmother, Dorothy Macfarlan, the woman with the dog leash is unknown, Mickey Macfarlan with the necktie, and then Robin’s mother, Dorothy Freeman. Rose Wedge’s house is hidden in the shadows on the right.
Description: Documents. No scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records for 1941 have been made as of 2018 (part of 2016.334.2100). Paper documents are in files.
Description: Letter with envelope. Jennie Stanley to Mrs. Elmer Spurling on GCI, 1946 postmark. Jennie writes to "Dear Hilda" from Boston, Mass. Oct. 20, 1946 about church membership. (Jennie Stanley is Ken and Jeannie Schmidt's grandmother.)
Description: Letter of hire to Andrew A. McSorley, as the Principal of Plantsville School. Signed by William M, Strong, superintendent of schools in Southington, CT. Dated January 13th, 1944
Description: Photo, George Savage standing in front of the Helen Parker House (on Cranberry Rd. across from Bruce Komusin's) with his horse Star Summer 1945. 1048B George in back of the Parker house with his horse Star. 1048C photo taken from The Pool. 1048D George Savage's boat. 1048 E Arvard Savage and others with Hillard Hardy's boat. Photo featured on Fall 2010 Cranberry Chronicle.
Description: Letter from Rachel Field Pederson to Mrs. Eversman (Betty Hartley's mother), dated 26 Aug 1940, apparently from Hollywood, CA, in which Rachel mentions that Mrs. Eversman visited Rachel's mother on Sutton Island and found her well, which Rachel was worried about; also Rachel mentions putting the Sutton cottage on the market.
Description: Photo (postcard), Old Preble House -Cranberry Isles, postmarked Cranberry Isles 22 July 1947, 1 cent stamp, postcard reads "This is the house mentioned in "In God's Pocket" by Rachel Field. We must get the book & read it. 7/22/47" sent to Mrs. John E. Nichols, Route 3, Quakertown, PA.
Description: Photo, scanned copy of February 1944 photograph of Longfellow School students with teacher Eleanor Bealor, taken on Dog Point Road. One of the buildings on the right has since been moved and became part of Charlene's house. Wesley Bracy Jr. holds the Abe Lincoln silhouette, to his right is his brother who died. Arthur Bunker is to Wesley Jr.'s left holding the 1944 sign. Teacher is in center, back row. (Original photo from Wesley Bracy Jr. scanned as "wb02" in the year 2000.) One printed copy of photograph has all the names written in by Bruce Komusin per Charlene Allen, including: Lena Spurling, Louise Phippen, Allison Bunker, Charlene Bunker Allen, Eleanor Bealor (teacher), Louise Thompson who used to live in the Wellman house, Annie Alley Rice, Leroy Alley, Nancy Spurling, Morris Alley, Louis Bracy, Lester "Bumpy" Bracy, Dickey Phippen, Gaile (Bunker) Colby, Arthur Bunker, and Wesley Bracy, Jr.. (1000.27.694 (B) is cleaned-up, retouched version of the original scan.) [show more]