Thursday, November 30, 2023

St. Anne Catholic Church, Waterbury #1: Looking West from East Clay Street

Looking west down East Clay Street in Waterbury, Connecticut after a trip to HolyLandUSA, May, 2014 — The sun rising behind me catches Naugatuck River night fog behind the now demolished steeples of Saint Anne’s in Waterbury.  St. Anne's, begun in 1906, was finally completed in 1922 by the French-Canadian community that settled in the area and worked in the brass mills. HolyLandUSA was the work of a Waterbury attorney. Today St. Anne's serves the local community with services in both English and Spanish.


 

Thursday, November 2, 2023

EXHIBITION: Whittemore Public Library, Naugatuck, CT — Brass Valley Photographs


 EXHIBITION: Whittemore Public Library, Naugatuck, CT, through October 27, 2023

Photographs of Connecticut's "Brass Valley," taken by Emery Roth before the brass mills closed. Above is a detail from "Made in the USA" showing Willy supervising furnaces of the last operating casting furnace of American Brass in Ansonia.