The Valley-Voice Newsletter

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Shadow Shot Sunday - Tall Table

I've been waiting for a morning like this morning. The patio awaits frivolity and grilled cuisine...and us too! So for Shadow Shot Sunday our patio table looks twice as tall as usual under the almost summer sun of Southern New England. I am ready for the Season!

Friday, May 29, 2020

The Weekend Roundup, 'V'

Friday's here, so time again for a favorite meme The Weekend Roundup hosted by Tom. Today's letter, the 22nd, has its charms, and given my last name, I'll start there...

Villers is our name so a family portrait of the extended Villers family is in order :) The time is July 1969, the place Brigantine, NJ. I'm on the upper left in gold. Note the late 1960s dress and hair styles!

More Villers, The time is in the summer of 1945 after V-J Day, the place along the Pennsylvania Turnpike to or from Atlantic City. Grandma Agnes (O'Hanon) Villers and my Aunt Terry. Note the license tag - he had these personalized 'RV' Ohio plates from the mid-1930s...

This is a Vietnam Veteran's memorial at the beach in West Haven, CT

Voluminous. Our son is a software developer in Manhattan working from his Brooklyn apartment. His boss treated him to lunch from a take out. I'll let Cam describe it:
"When the boss says you can order lunch, why not go all out? I finally tried a Pakistani place I've been meaning to check out.
Clockwise from top left: chicken biryani (slow cooked rice) and chicken kabobs, samosa chaat (chaat is fried potato pieces, fried bread pieces, onions, and chickpeas, in a yogurt sauce; all that over two potato samosas), paratha (flatbread).

The spice level is fine but to be honest I think the number of spices is a lot more interesting than the heat. I haven't had this many flavors at one time in two months."

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Valley-Voice CT Newsletter for May 27

The Valley-Voice CT Newsletter for May 27: Derby Historical Society to feature 6th CT Regiment at Open House. Link:

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Monday, May 25, 2020

The Valley-Voice CT Newsletter for May 25

The Valley-Voice CT Newsletter for May 25:

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Friday, May 22, 2020

The Weekend Roundup, 'U'

It is Friday of a three-day weekend, so time again for Tom's fun meme The Weekend Roundup. The final vowel is featured today, and it is hard but not impossible to find a few examples in the photo archives...

This is the futuristic looking Unitarian Society of Hartford Ct. It was opened in 1964.

Here is the United Methodist Church in Derby, CT. The Romanesque style red sanctuary was opened in 1894, the second Methodist church built on the site.

Union Congregational Church in Rockville, CT. This is the third church on the site - the first two were constructed of wood and burned down. Given the name of the town, the surviving building is made of stone...

Many decades ago, (July 1983) United Air Lines flight 483 suffered a few flat tires upon landing at Minneapolis-St. Paul. I captured this as the passengers stood on the now closed runway. We were awaiting the busses to take us to the terminal. No sensations other than a bumps upon landing...