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The winds that toppled trees, knocked out power and carved a path of devastation through Connecticut Monday night, also led to a strange discovery on the New Haven Green.
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A giant oak tree that stood in the downtown park since 1909 lost its footing in the powerful storm and tipped to the ground revealing human remains and what city officials believe to be some type of time capsule, tangled in its roots.
You think its the hurricane? I think its a dead man trying to tell a tale, a passerby, Curtis T told the New Haven Independent.
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sinkingfeeling
(51,478 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)of the 18th century and the guy died of smallpox.
The Green has been in existence since the founding of New Haven in 1638.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)Or, at least as I remember them, there was always a church and cemetary on part of them anyway.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)not a bad legacy.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)workers dig up a coffin, within which a vampire (Johnny Depp playing Barnabas Collins) has been chained for a few hundred years. He was put in the coffin, and buried, by a witch.
I'm just sayin'...ya know...
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)what's in the box?!
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)opiate69
(10,129 posts)In high school, I played tuba (euphonium) and my senior year, the other tuba player from my school and I went and took part in "Tubalation." An annual free concert on the Green, of tuba players and baritone horn players from all over the state playing Christmas music... epic! What a shame that historic tree fell victim to Sandy
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Sad to see the tree go though. Very spooky for Halloween.
These town greens are all over the state. One down the street from me in Thomaston. The biggest town green in the United States is in Lebanon, CT.