On Sunday, January 24, at 2:00 p.m., Shelton Historical Society will host Dan W. DeLuca, who will present a program about the Leatherman, a mysterious individual who roamed a clockwise circuit of 365 miles every 34 days between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers in the late 1800’s for nearly thirty years.
Mr. DeLuca, a genealogist, historian, and retired high school teacher, has researched this famous character in Connecticut folklore for over twenty years and written a book, The Old Leatherman: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend.A brief business meeting will take place prior to the program when a special presentation will be made by Shelton Police Chief Joel Hurliman and former Chief Robert White. It is their intention to donate several recently rediscovered photographs taken during the B. F. Goodrich fire on Canal Street that took place on March 1, 1975 to the Shelton Historical Society.
This year will be the 35th anniversary of the devastating event that served as the symbolic end of Shelton’s manufacturing era along the Housatonic River that had flourished for over a century.
This annual meeting will take place at Huntington Congregational Church Fellowship Hall at 19 Church Street and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
In case of inclement weather, an announcement will be made on WICC.
