Community news: Heroes of Ned s Mountain webinar and more
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On Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 4 p.m., a Former Editor of The Ridgefield Press, Jack Sanders, will share recent research that reveals that the Armstrongs not only operated a Ridgefield station on the Underground Railroad, but that shows that their grandsons were among the many Black soldiers who fought and died in the Civil War. He will introduce other Black families who lived on Ned’s Mountain and also sent sons to the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers. Two heroes of the Underground Railroad, Edward and Betsy Armstrong, are buried in Ridgebury Cemetery, located in the Ridgebury neighborhood of Ridgefield. Their home on Ned’s Mountain provided refuge for people making the dangerous journey to safety from enslavement in the South. Pictured is a photo of the Armstrong tombstones in the Ridgebury Cemetery.Sally Sanders / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
Letter: Mack
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Ridgefielders letters to the editor should be emailed to: news@theridgefieldpress.com. The writers of this letter, who are also residents of Ridgefield, write this letter with compliments about an Editor of the newspaper in the town.Macklin Reid / Hearst Connecticut Media
Letter to the Editor:
More than 40 years ago, a young man who had grown up in Ridgefield joined the staff of his hometown newspaper and began a long career of telling countless stories about his town.
When Macklin Reid started as a reporter in the 1970s, he wrote on an ancient typewriter, and then set about perfecting each piece with a scissors and a gluepot, cutting paragraphs here, pasting them there. By the time he turned in a story, his “copy” looked like a complex, pieced-together puzzle, but it read like a masterpiece.