Connecticut Colonial History
Talk on Colonial Greenwich History by Local Historian Missy Wolfe
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Missy Wolfe, author of The Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich, will speak at the Retired Men’s Association on August 29 at 11 a.m. sharp. The talk, at First Presbyterian Church on Lafayette Place, is free and open to the public. — an announcement from the Greenwich Retired Men’s Association
Greenwich, as it existed in the seventeenth century, is a lost world. There were tythingmen and meeting warners here, wild horse hunters, water works makers, cow keepers, townsmen, pounders and planters. Facing an undeveloped wilderness, Old Greenwich townsmen created the entire town’s original template.