Brad Horrigan

Photo Essays: WHERE BROOKLYN AT? In eastern CT actually

The word "Brooklyn" typically conjures up urban landscapes, but Connecticut's Brooklyn is a far cry from urban.  

  • Students swing at Brooklyn Elementary School.
  • Retired Pfizer researcher Dave Karlson, left, watches as Jean Sweet's German Shepherd Fraulein {quote}bellies up{quote} to the bar on command. Jean Sweet and her husband Wayne (not pictured here) have owned Sanford Haney Farm, a poultry farm in Brooklyn, for 33 years.
  • Ashley Ladero photographs her son Julian Ladero, 3, in a cutout of {quote}The Scream{quote} at Brooklyn Elementary School's Art Night.
  • A perk for working at East Coast Glam, is that employees like Carol Jaame, can tan for no charge.
  • arly on a May morning, Cecile Newland, of Killingly, tidies up around her father Martin Newland's gravestone at South Cemetery in Brooklyn. Cecile worked in her father's sawmill before he passed away in 1995. She tries to get down to his gravesite at least every other to clean up, weed, plant, and decorate.
  • Brooklyn Veterinary Hospital holds a monthly class for new dog owners called {quote}Puppy Kindergarten.{quote} Here the dogs are socialized as veterinary technician and trainer Joyce Kramer, conducts the class.
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  • Second grader Leah Costa cools down in the {quote}wet seat{quote} during Fun Day at Brooklyn Elementary School.
  • Brooklyn Farm & Pets employee Nate Gebo, center, makes change for customer Dick Booth, as two Serama chickens hang out on the counter. At right, is employee Mike Grady.
  • udy Rzeznikiewicz opened Brooklyn Restoration Supply in 1961 as a part time endeavor.  He was a full time dairy farmer in those days. For decades though he has been full time supplying people with windows, doors and salvaged household items like the mantles that he stands among here.
  • Joey Carbone and Katlynn Morrison light sparklers in Carbone's driveway two nights before July 4th.
  • Poultry farmer Wayne Sweet drops eggs of in his sales fridge in Brooklyn.
  • Ryan Howley, top, cuts Gene Wood's hair as Angelo Exarhoulias, left, cuts Jon Petrichenko's hair at The Barber Shop. Barbers and shop co-owners Hawley and Exarhoulias have now been in business together for 10 years and have been at the shop's current Brooklyn location for 4 years.
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