Saybrook’s last Civil War widow Emma Cook, May 1938

In May 1938, the Village of Saybrook prepared to celebrate its first Decoration Day (now known as Memorial Day) without a Civil War vet...

Photo of the Week, 74: Red, White and Blue in Sepia

In the years after the Civil War, Union Army veteran Gilbert Henderson Bates sought, in his own eccentric way, to help heal the section...