Orford Parish Historical Society @OrfordParishCT
The Orford Parish Historical Society's Home on the Web. Celebrate our town's unique history. Witches will be blocked. facebook.com/opdowntown/ Orford Parish, CT Joined August 2017-
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Images of what’s come to be known in local folklore as “The Bad Day Out” are associated with stories of misfortune and ruin. But don’t worry! The curse supposedly only affects people who perceive a slight blurring at the edge of the photograph.
Happy Memorial Day Weekend from all of us at the historical society! We’re open special hours this weekend, and as a treat kids can have their fortunes told by Lucius T. Gourdacre, President of the Pumpkin Patch! Please, no questions about the fate of his electoral opponent.
Although what’s known as the Storch Street Shrieking was mentioned as early as 1739, it wasn’t until 1962 that a systematic effort was made to study it. The results have never been made public and, by some accounts, were shot into space by NASA.
A group of Orford Parish men getting ready for one of the periodic hunts for the Hobbowampus, the mysterious beast said to lurk in the woods near Brokenlatch Hill.
An old saying in town has it that to dream of Mr. Blossom in any of his forms is a sign of impending misfortune, river travel, or both
Please join us Saturday morning for a bus tour of mass trampling sites in our town! The bus leaves the museum at 10 a.m. and returns at 3 p.m., so there will only be time to visit the major trampling sites. Cost: $15 or an old love letter stolen from your grandmother.
The Holcomb House will be open for the season starting Saturday! Although the school group that vanished last June has not been found, town exorcists have certified that 55 percent of the historic home is perfectly safe to visit.
A great photo of the Home Defense Force, aka “The Terror of Quakers,” circa 1900. After a controversial Supreme Court ruling that towns cannot have their own armies, the Force was absorbed into the Garden Club.
On this day in 1923: Erastus Dow becomes the first mayor of Orford Parish to be carried off from a Board of Selectmen meeting by a group of fierce owls, never to be seen again.
At the museum on Saturday, it’s all about puppetcraft! Come learn how our forebears used puppet magic to blight crops, spread illness, and affect the course of softball games. Feel free to invite a puppet to join you! Light refreshments, $6 donation.
On a hot day like today, it sure would be nice to take a dip in the pond at the old One Light All Seeing Spiritualist camp - though ideally without the massacre that brought the camp to an end, LOL!
Young people greeting President Eisenhower during his famous 1960 visit. “I heard a low, bleating, awful noise that was later described to me as the town’s own anthem,” he said later. “I still hear it in my nightmares.”
Undated photo from our town’s brief experimentation with alternatives to democracy (1795-1984, intermittently).
Happy May Day! Today marks the 123rd anniversary of the famous “Day the Haunting Stopped,” when local ghosts went on strike for improved working conditions.
The famous “Murder Cabin” near Miasma Pond, where generations of Orford Parish children have taken school trips to hear the famous wailing and see the storied Bloodied Dentures. #FolkloreThursday
On this day: Walter Haighton becomes the last OP citizen to face trial by ordeal, being “swam” in the Hobomuck River after being accused of witchcraft. His April 18, 1993 acquittal marks a sea change in local jurisprudence.
An old local superstition is that rain on April 15 means this year’s spiders will be able to gain access to your dreams.
The puppets known as the Men of Woe were discovered in 1938 in the crater left by a meteor strike at the Layton Gravham Farm. They have been used for many years to resolve zoning disputes between neighbors.
Don’t miss our special Saturday morning program “The Cruelest Month: Mass Trampling Incidents During April.” Refreshments will be provided, and costumes are encouraged!
Despite the snooty opinions of people from away, folks in Orford Parish have long enjoyed the distinctive flavor of Hussar Rounds, made locally since 1785.
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