January 3: Hunger Pangs – Glastonbury Grocery Stores Run Out of Food

  Today in 1943, concerned and sometimes panicky homemakers in Glastonbury flocked to area farms seeking potatoes, eggs, poultry and vegetables to feed their families. The food rush came following weeks of increasing food shortages  that had culminated in the sudden closure of several local grocery stores the day before, after  they simply ran out…