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Town of Southbury Upcoming Events
Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony
5/31/2021 | 11:00am
Enjoy the parade down Main Street South and attend the Ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Green afterward. The keynote address speaker is Dan Ettinger, Commander, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Chapter 1. Organizer: Southbury Parks & Recreation and Memorial Day Parade Committee.
Did Southbury author Gladys Taber inspire the classic film Christmas in Connecticut ?
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Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan are seen in a poster for 1945’s “Christmas in Connecticut.” It’s believed Stanwyck’s character, Elizabeth Lane, was loosely based on Gladys Taber, a popular columnist at the time for magazines such as Ladies’ Home Journal. Taber, who lived at Stillmeadow Farm in Southbury, wrote nearly 60 books and a column in the 1930s and 1940s called “Diary of Domesticity.” Elizabeth Lane’s column is “Diary of a Housewife,” but it’s a sham. She can’t cook and doesn’t live on a farm. The romantic comedy follows what happens when she pretends to be what she isn’t, and falls in love with one of her fans, war hero Jefferson Jones, played by Morgan.LMPC via Getty Images / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less