CVRHS 2025 Convention - Stafford, Ct.

It has been a long time since I last attended a CVRHS convention. This year I put in the effort to attended. I really enjoyed myself and learned a lot about the Stafford Ct. area of the CV. I did not know it was such a big textile mill town. There were many mills in town over the years. A lot burned down as the textile industry is very flammable sensitive and many of the early buildings where wood. There still are some remaining structures which are all brick. We took a group photo at the old CV station which is now a police station. Harvey and Charlie Allen supplied some of the biggest donuts I have ever seen for the morning coffee time. The donuts are local from his home in Amherst, Mass. A nice lunch was also supplied. I spent sometime rooting through the boxes of George Corey photos that were available to purchase. I was holding back on these but came away with 8 that I will share with you over the winter.

As always I came home with a few goodies including those George Corey photos, a southern New England station books, by John Roy who hosted the convention and timetables which where give aways...George Dutka 

Group photo at the station. John Roy photo

Copies of George's book were available for those that have not purchased one yet.

Early era view of Stafford, Ct. station.

There was a large factory which made buttons from shells.

Bill Brigham brought along some baggage tags there were found in a hole in the wall of the Randolph, Vt. station. Bethel and Randolph are only 7 miles apart. And there was a lot of tags for this short distance stashed in the wall. Maybe a station to station baggage claim quota war someone was hiding. 

Laz picked up for me a copy of Jim Jones book on the Richford Sub. I am half way through it already. I did do a drive following the line while in Vermont checking out the bike and hiking trail.