Newspaper

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Newspaper

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.848

Scope and Content

news clipping photocopies, re. 1951 Memorial Day Celebration, which was filmed by a four camera crew, three professional actors and director Howard Southgate of the U.S. Naval Photographic Center as the backdrop of a Navy Information Film. "Stonington was chosen as the background of the film because...the annual Memorial Day Celebration...is considered as a fine representation of the town spirit and hence will be shown to the rest of the nation as how this day should be fittingly observed." May 24 - May 28, 1951; April 24, 1952 (9 clippings)

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection