Word: pomfret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILL RUKEYSER Pomfret, Conn...
AHEAD Motorists slowed to a crawl. Some even turned around and crawled back. Business boomed at the Pomfret Spirit Shoppe. But the state police said no. There was a law against private citizens' telling motorists to slow down, and besides, the sign was too close to the road. Proprietor Patenaude pondered about it all winter. This week he has a new sign ready for installation along Route 169-farther back from the road, but bigger...
Business might be better at the Pomfret Spirit Shoppe, mused Proprietor Bernard Patenaude, if only the cars on Route 169, between Pomfret and Woodstock, Conn., didn't tear by so fast. So he had a big sign painted...
...year at an English school. Pennsylvania's Hill livens up humanities with a two-year course that correlates the art, music and literature of any one period. Science and philosophy go into a similar course for all seniors at Loomis, which is also strong on atmospheric science. Pomfret is particularly proud of intensive area studies, has sent students to Africa and India in the summer, on the ground, as one Pomfret teacher puts it, that "we can't just sit here on our hilltop." Upper-crusty, hockey-playing St. Paul's makes admirable use of the summer...
...vote.' It John Davis would be insulting to them. They know who I am." Far from aloof was Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54, a hulking, aggressive six-term Congressman from Connecticut's agricultural eastern Second District. Seely-Brown, who runs a 100-acre apple farm in Pomfret, likes meeting people. He covered 3,000 miles in the state, pleaded persuasively for delegate votes...