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| Friday, April 19, 2024 |
Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
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Principal speaker
was Lt. Gov. Kevin Sullivan who told the small crowd, including members
of the family of victim John Gould, that he was in Winsted on that
day, spending two weeks
at the home of his Uncle Bud, on Smith Hill. (This writer, at the same time, was at Camp Wabigoon, farther up the same hill.)
Mr. Sullivan, six years old at the time, recalled someone knocking on the front door, during the night, and then saying, "The town is gone." Mr. Sullivan noted that fifty years is a long time, but "it seems only yesterday as we gather here." Referring to the response to the flood, he said that there were "so many ordinary people who became extremely heroic." The assembled then walked to the rededicated memorial which now has a stone wall and flowers surrounding the original memorial which was placed at the site, in East End Park, in 1956.
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