Grapevine History gets a new house

Grapevine
History gets a new house

Barbara Bryan, Fairfield Museum and History Center library volunteer looks on while Bruce Jelliffe and Candi Brandtmuller, members of William B. Meyer Inc.'s library relocation team, sort, pack and prepare to transport some of the 12,000 volumes.

Some 12,000 volumes of books and over 100 collections of manuscripts all dating back to the early 1600s got the white-glove treatment as they were packed at the old Fairfield Historical Society library and moved ever-so-gently to their new home at the Fairfield Museum and History Center on Beach Road.

The library houses one of the state’s most important and comprehensive historical archives and is utilized by more than 5,000 researchers a year.

The new library has the latest technology and a spacious new reading room overlooking the Fairfield town green.

Phase two of the relocation scheduled for mid-July will include moving maps and archived photos. The move is being handled by William B. Meyer Inc., which has handled much larger moves. Since 1982, Meyer has moved more than 1,000 libraries nationwide. The largest of those moves was the Los Angeles Public Library with more than 3 million volumes. Meyer’s clients include Yale University, Harvard School of Business, Cornell Law School, Salt Lake City Public Library, the U.S. Department of Energy, and one of the oldest independent collections in the country, the Boston Athenaeum.

Fifth most-interesting new business name:

Accurate Piano Tuning and Repair, Danbury

(It’s all you can ask for.)

Fourth most-interesting new business name:

A Feel Good Life, Brookfield

(It’s all you can ask for, Part II.)

‘Captain America’ returns

Chris Drury, who put Trumbull on the world map in 1989 by pitching the town team to the Little League World Series title, returns at the age of 37 to play center for the team he idolized as a kid, the New York Rangers.

Since leaving Fairfield College Preparatory School, all Drury has done is win an NCAA championship at Boston University while winning the Hobey Baker Award as the top collegiate hockey player; receive the Calder Trophy as the top rookie in the NHL; win the Stanley Cup in 2001 with the Colorado Avalanche; and win a silver medal in the 2002 Olympics at Salt Lake City.

Third most-interesting new business name:

Bake My Day, Darien

(Dirty Harry sees the errors of his ways and reaches for the mixer.)

Second most-interesting new business name:

Bogey’s Formal Wear, Danbury

(Here’s looking at you in a nice suit, sweetheart.)

The most-interesting new business name:

Monicashouseoffunameit, Bridgeport

(We don’t understand it, but we’re sure we’ll enjoy it.)

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