By Courtney Luciana, SCSU Journalism student Courtney Luciana, a journalism student at Southern Connecticut State University, reported this story in 2017 as part of Journalism Capstone coursework on World War I. Flanking Derby Avenue alongside Yale’s baseball and football facilities, a bronze plaque and flagpole commemorate the World War I […]

Yale Fields Serve as Backdrop for 102nd Regiment Monument

By Melanie Espinal, SCSU Journalism student Melanie Espinal, journalism students at Southern Connecticut State University, reported this story in 2017 as part of Journalism Capstone coursework on World War I. When Bethel sought to honor its World War I veterans, the town focused on the soldier rather than the usual […]

Bethel Saves Its Doughboy

Easton monument
By Ali Sorbara SCSU Journalism student Ali Sorbara, journalism student at Southern Connecticut State University, reported this story in 2017 as part of Journalism Capstone coursework on World War I. Before Easton’s World War I memorial boulder, there was a wooden sign. The townspeople first erected a wooden sign at […]

Easton Remembers the Great War