On this day in Connecticut history in 1767, education pioneer Sarah Pierce was born in Litchfield. As a teenager, her older brother sent her to New York to learn to become a teacher in order to financially support herself and her siblings after the death of their father. Upon her return to Litchfield in…
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June 6: A D-Day Message From Home.
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, Private Robert C. Hillman became one of over 13,000 American paratroopers to leap out of a plane over Normandy as part of the “D-Day” invasion of occupied France — one of the largest offensives of World War II. A member of the legendary 101st Airborne…