Moments in Time – November 15, 2023

#MiddleburyCT On Nov. 27, 2017, eight donkeys were released from jail after four days’ imprisonment for the crime of eating expensive saplings in the Jalaun district of Uttar ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – May 17, 2023

#MiddleburyCT On June 4, 1411, France’s King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the village of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. The cheese’s origin ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – July 27, 2022

#Middlebury On Aug. 10, 1776, news reaches London that the Americans had drafted the Declaration of Independence. Until the Declaration of Independence formally transformed the 13 ... Continue Reading →

Wallace Nutting tavern table copied from earlier piece

#Middlebury #Antiques Although antique dealers tell us early 1900s oak furniture doesn’t sell – average Chippendale pieces are not wanted and fancy French designs of the past ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – Jan. 23, 2019

#Middlebury On Feb. 6, 1820, the first organized immigration of freed slaves to Africa from the United States departs New York on a journey to Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The expedition ... Continue Reading →