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Rail service is suspended on Metro-North’s New Haven Line between New Haven and South Norwalk indefinitely, leading many weekend tourists and regular commuters alike to seek alternate transportation.
Loading ...Connecticut Air & Space Center to stage panel discussion on pioneer aviators
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Andrew King, Executive Director of Connecticut Air & Space Center will conduct a panel discussion on Gustav Whitehead and Chance Vought that will focus on the accomplishments of both aviation pioneers with emphasis on the recent recognition of Gustav Whitehead being the first to fly a controlled, powered aircraft.
Chance M. Vought was the founder of the company that designed and produced the Corsair fighter-bomber, one of the most successful war planes of World War II.
Also planned are discussions on the many aircraft that were developed and built in the Stratford and Bridgeport are, the current restoration of a Corsair fighter and the possible restoration of a Sikorsky flying boat by CASC.
The panel will include CASC board members Andrew King, Andrew Kosch, noted Whitehead expert; Chris Soltis, museum curator; and Ed McGuinness, the Corsair restoration project manager.
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- Whitehead’s flyer
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- The F4U Chance-Vought Corsair
The panel discussion will be held Sunday, May 5th, at the Stratford Library, 2203 Main St., beginning at 2 p.m. All are welcomed to attend.
Boehm Porcelain collection on view in Redding
Stunning vibrant flowers (that never wilt or lose their color) and beautiful birds (that never roam from their perch) are specialties of Boehm Porcelain, one of the world’s most famous makers of floral, wildlife and religious porcelain sculptures.
Other than at its Trenton, N.J., showroom, it’s rare to see more than a few at a time in one location. But now through April 14, more than 60 early works from the Boehm workshop are on view at the Mark Twain Library in Redding.
All the works are from the private collection of KT Carter, whose wildlife photography exhibit, “Birds of Winter,” also is on display.
Edward Marshall Boehm (1913-1965) was a self-taught American sculptor who achieved enormous fame and success during his lifetime for his porcelain designs.
His company continues in the same Trenton studio that he founded in 1950; http://boehmporcelain.com. Many of the works sell for thousands of dollars.
From the White House to the Vatican, Boehm Porcelain is renowned. Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower has collected Boehm, according to its website, which noted that such museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hermitage in Moscow and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., are among its prominent patrons.
“Boehm porcelain is the only American art form to have two dedicated rooms in the Vatican Museum in Rome,” the website reports. June Miles, who is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, is show curator.
“The exhibit is a wonderful opportunity” to see these exquisite pieces, said collector Carter.
The Mark Twain Library, 439 Redding Road, Redding. Hours are Monday to Wednesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursdays 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sundays noon -5 p.m. Free. 203-938-2545.
— Phyllis A.S. Boros
Musical memorial service set for Robert S. Tellalian
A musical memorial service for lawyer and community leader Robert S. Tellalian will take place Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at 1 p.m. at the 1,100-seat United Congregational Church, 877 Park Avenue (at the corner of State Street) in Bridgeport. The service will be open to the public.
Mr. Tellalian died at his Stratford home on Christmas, Dec. 25, 2012, just a few weeks following the death of his wife, Jean Hamilton Tellalian. He was 91.
Known throughout his life as a choral singer and supporter of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, Mr. Tellalian will be memorialized by more than 75 GBS musicians and chorale singers from around the state. All are volunteering their time.
An event spokesman, John Polo (a GBS board member) said that Mr. Tellalian’s long and rich life will be celebrated with several masterworks from Mendelssohn, Brahms and Rutter as well as with pieces on pipe organ by Dr. John Michniewicz, the church’s director of music.
Mr. Tellalian was predeceased by his older brother, Judge Aram Tellalian, with whom he was partner for more than 50 years in the downtown Bridgeport law firm of Tellalian & Tellalian. The firm moved to Trumbull a few years ago.
Mr. Tellalian served on numerous committees and boards, most notably as chairman of GBS since the mid-1990s and a leader of Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut (portraying Santa for 54 years at parties for the disabled and impoverished children).
Prior to his passing, Mr. Tellalian asked that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions benefit the organizations that he loved:
Greater Bridgeport Symphony,
446 University Avenue,
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Goodwill Industries,
165 Ocean Terrace,
Bridgeport, CT 06605
United Congregational Church,
Special Music Fund,
877 Park Ave., Bridgeport, CT 06604
For a full obituary, written by Phyllis Boros:
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Community-leader-lawyer-Robert-S-Tellalian-dies-4147314.php
For an OP-ED tribute, written by Dave Keyes, in Sunday’s paper, 12/30/12 :
http://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Tellalian-man-of-many-roles-4152732.php
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DeLauro calls for $2,000 tax credit for turning in assault rifles
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, proposed a $2,000 tax credit for turning in assault rifles to police as Congress takes up gun control.
Called, Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Reduction for out Street Act, it would work by providing a federal tax credit for people who turn in weapons related to future local, state or federal programs.
Lawmakers are facing pressure to do something in the wake of the Newtown massacre in which a man took his mother’s guns, killed her and then shot up an elementary school leaving 20 first graders dead along with six staff.
“Let us be clear. Assault weapons are not about hunting or even self-defense and they should be off the streets,” DeLauro said. “There is no reason on Earth, other than to kill as many people as possible in a very short period of time, that anyone needs a gun designed for military purposes. These weapons have been disproportionately used to kill law enforcement officers in the line of duty and were tragically used in Newtown, Aurora, and countless other mass shootings across America.
The SAFER Streets Act creates a $2,000 refundable tax credit ($1,000 for two consecutive years) for an assault weapon owner who turns in their firearm to the state police.
DeLauro said the idea of a tax credit came from a Connecticut veteran.
Here is the key language of the act:
IN GENERAL.—In the case of an individual who surrenders a specified assault weapon to the
United States or a State or local government (or political subdivision thereof) as part of a Federal,
State, or local public safety program to reduce the number of privately-owned weapons, on the election
of the taxpayer there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter an amount equal to $2,000.
Tellalian memorial set for Jan. 19
A memorial service for lawyer and community leader Robert S. Tellalian will take place Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at 1 p.m. at the United Congregational Church, 877 Park Avenue (at the corner of State Street) in Bridgeport. The memorial is open to the public.
Mr. Tellalian died at his Stratford home on Christmas, Dec. 25, 2012, just a few weeks following the death of his wife, Jean Hamilton Tellalian. He was 91.
He was also predeceased by his brother, Judge Aram Tellalian, with whom he was partner for more than 50 years in the downtown Bridgeport law firm of Tellalian & Tellalian. The firm moved to Trumbull a few years ago.
Mr. Tellalian served on numerous committees and boards, most notably as chairman of the board of trustees for the Greater Bridgeport Symphony since the mid-1990s and a leader with Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut (portraying Santa for 54 years at parties for the disabled and impoverished children).
Prior to his passing, Mr. Tellalian asked that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions benefit the organizations that he loved:
Greater Bridgeport Symphony,
446 University Avenue,
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Goodwill Industries,
165 Ocean Terrace,
Bridgeport, CT 06605
United Congregational Church,
Special Music Fund,
877 Park Ave., Bridgeport, CT 06604
For a full obituary, written by Phyllis Boros:
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Community-leader-lawyer-Robert-S-Tellalian-dies-4147314.php
For an OP-ED tribute, written by Dave Keyes, in Sunday’s paper, 12/30/12 :
http://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Tellalian-man-of-many-roles-4152732.php
