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Twisted….
no apology necessary. My parents and older siblings left NYC for Nerw Haven in 1952 and I was born there. They did not live in rural CT. Mid 1950s New Haven had more than 20 shuls, 12 kosher butchers, 12 kosher bakeries, shotchim, mohelim, sofrim, yeshivos, etc and more than 30,000 Jews (1/4 of the population.My next older sister married a boy from New Haven, whose mother and grandmother had been born in the farming community of Colchester. The orthodox community lasted about 75 years.
CTl, so in Hartford they are Yankees fans and in E. Hartford they are Red Sox fans? What if someone lives on a houseboat? LOL
AviK
The traditional boundaries have blurred with the advent of cable TV and the availability of Red Sox games on about 23 of the 27 cable franchises in the state.
In the early 1960s, my father had 15 children’s clothing stores throughout CT. In the Hartford, West Hartford and Bloomfield stores they stocked Yankee Baseball caps and zip up poplin jackets, in East Hartford and Manchester they stocked the items with the Red Sox logo. His stores in New Haven county only carried the Yankee items and his two branches in Springfield, Mass carried Red Sox.
There is ONE major Exception city in CT. New Britain (west of Hartford) was heavily Red Sox territory. It was a predominantly Polish-American city and they were Loyal supporters of Carl Yazstremski who starred for the Red Sox from 1961-1983.What any of this has to do with Jewish Pilgrims, I don’t know, but many Jews are proud New Englanders
CTL, twas apologizing for the NYC centrism. I’m gone 8 hrs east for more than ten years, but the nostalgia, or stubborn shortsightedness still runs strong. Please accept my apology and also for all the other “oots”
Twisted, I think I’ve seen that book. I don’t think it was unique to New England that there were talmidei chachamim in small towns, but it is striking how many there were. As you say, it was a one-generation phenomenon.
Twisted…
No apology needed..
I’m the baby of the family and the only one not born in NYC. From 1974-87 I kept an office in Manhattan and was there 2-3 days per week. In the past 30 years I don’t think I’ve been in Manhattan 50 times. I do have a family foundation dinner there in August I must attend. That will be my first visit in a year.
I make an annual trip to Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn and Mt. Hebron in Queens. What little family I have left in the city are more than happy to come spend time here in CT with us. The pool is full and inviting, we had 10 relatives this past Shabbos from Brooklyn who stayed until this morning. 3 of the kids stayed on to play with my grandchildren for a couple of weeks. No reason that 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins shouldn’t get to know and enjoy each other here at Camp CTL. Swimming, tennis, basketball, badminton, biking, great kosher food. No sharing a bunk, shower and toilet with 12 strangers…what could be bad? Wednesday, I hope to take them out fishing on my boat in the Long Island Sound.
When my parents A”H were kids in the late 1920s they were sent by their parents to a combination guest house and sleep-away camp in western NJ (which is where they met). Last year, the daughter of a 3rd cousin on Mrs. CTL’s side married the son of a 2nd cousin on my side. They had met here one summer when they were 12 years old. When the time came to enter shidduchim, both mothers reminded the children about the long ago summer friendship and got us to invite them and several other cousins for a Shabbos. Their friendship rekindled and marriage followed. One lived in Flatbush, the other in Washington Heights. Their paths would have never passed in NYC. OOT, frum is frum and eligible…no one cares if one is Breuers and the other from Chaim Berlin.
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