Simsbury

He went to school at Syracuse and did the whole communications thing.

Basically, my parents grew up in Simsbury, so that's the Connecticut thing.

They both grew up here.

And they were like, you can go to New York or you can go to L.A. And they went to L.A.

How old were you? I was seven.

Okay.

We lived with my grandparents in Simsbury for one year, and then my parents moved to Canton, which is where I lived.

Were both your parents from here?

I got a brother there.

I grew up in Simsbury.

My fun fact is I broke both of my arms at the same time on Halloween when I was five years old.

But my claim to fame is I still went trick-or-treating.

No, I mean, I lived on Wood Pond in West Hartford.

I know you know where that is.

I also lived in Simsbury briefly.

Really?

These eleven frontier towns included Wells, York, and Kittery on the eastern frontier, and Amesbury, Haverhill, Dunstable, Chelmsford, Groton, Lancaster, Marlborough, and Deerfield.

in march sixteen ninety nine to seventeen hundred the law was re-enacted with the addition of brookfield mendon and woodstock together with seven others salisbury andover billerica hatfield hadley westfield and northampton which though they be not frontiers as those towns first named yet lie more open than many others to an attack of an enemy In the spring of 1704, the General Court of Connecticut, following closely the Act of Massachusetts, named as her frontier towns, not to be deserted, Simsbury, Waterbury, Danbury, Colchester, Wyndham, Mansfield and Plainfield.

Thus, about the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, there was an officially designated frontier line for New England.

The line passing through these enumerated towns represents 1.

The need of keeping the town meeting and the proprietors meeting separate in the old towns in earlier years was not so great as it was when the newcomers became numerous.

In an increasing degree, these newcomers were either not granted lands at all or were not admitted to the body of proprietors with rights in the possession of the undivided town lands.

Contentions on the part of the town meeting that it had the right of dealing with the town lands occasionally appear, significantly in the frontier towns of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Simsbury, Connecticut, and in the towns of the Connecticut Valley.

Jonathan Edwards, in 1751, declared that there had been in Northampton for 40 or 50 years two parties somewhat like the court and country parties of England.

Bye, Neil.

We say hi to Luke in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Luke.

Luke, how are you? I'm not playing these games today.

They told me where to live.

They said, don't go over to Simsbury.

They go, you got to drive in 45 minutes twice a day.

They said, come live with us over in Glastonbury because it's a 10 minute ride in.

You go late enough, you're going to see some fireworks.

Now, personally, I would pick a local place to harvest in Simsbury, Connecticut as my go-to breakfast spot.

But I understand we're talking about national food.

It can be

In March 1699-1700, the law was re-enacted with the addition of Brookfield, Mendon and Woodstock, together with seven others – Salisbury, Andover, Billerica, Hatfield, Hadley, Westfield and Northampton, which, though they be not frontiers as those towns first named, yet lie more open than many others to an attack of an enemy.

In the spring of 1704, the General Court of Connecticut, following closely the Act of Massachusetts, named as her frontier towns, not to be deserted, Simsbury, Waterbury, Danbury, Colchester, Wyndham, Mansfield, and Plainfield.

Thus, about the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, there was an officially designated frontier line for New England.

The line passing through these enumerated towns represents 1. the outskirts of settlement along the eastern coast and up the Merrimack and its tributaries, a region threatened from the Indian country by way of the Winnipesaukee Lake, 2. the end of the ribbon of settlement up the Connecticut Valley, menaced by the Canadian Indians by way of the Lake Champlain and Winooski River route to the Connecticut, three boundary towns which marked the edges of that inferior agricultural region where the hard crystalline rocks furnished a later foundation for shay's rebellion opposition to the adoption of the federal constitution and the abandoned farm and for the isolated interval of brookfield which lay intermediate between these frontiers Besides this New England frontier, there was a belt of settlement in New York, ascending the Hudson to where Albany and Schenectady served as outposts against the Five Nations, who menaced the Mohawk, and against the French and the Canadian Indians, who threatened the Hudson by way of Lake Champlain and Lake George.

The need of keeping the town meeting and the proprietors meeting separate in the old towns in earlier years was not so great as it was when the newcomers became numerous.

In an increasing degree, these newcomers were either not granted lands at all or were not admitted to the body of proprietors with rights in the possession of the undivided town lands.

Contentions on the part of the town meeting that it had the right of dealing with the town lands occasionally appear, significantly in the frontier towns of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Simsbury, Connecticut, and in the towns of the Connecticut Valley.

Jonathan Edwards, in 1751, declared that there had been in Northampton for 40 or 50 years two parties somewhat like the court and country parties of England.