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That exhibition, Our Community at Winchester: An Elm City Story , drew a crowd of of nearly 100 mainly former employees and their families to the art gallery at its opening at Gateway Community College. It recounts Winchester’s history, including the formation of the International Association of Machinists Local 609 union, alabama the strikes, the art and the music in the workplace, and the impact the factory has had on Newhallville and New Haven.
In Winchester exhibit, the chisels, vices, hammers, and other tools that workers used to fashion the stocks and other wooden parts of firearms give their quiet testimony in a vitrine in the middle alabama of a room otherwise filled up with movable panels carrying reproductions of photographs of life in the plant.
These are augmented by documents, alabama newsletters, newspaper accounts, memorabilia, and oral histories assembled from International Association of Machinists Local 609 records and interviews conducted by Greater New Haven Labor History Association . (Click here and here for stories on workers’ efforts to save the plant and its ultimate closing in 2006.)
Wednesday’s reception drew many workers from that time and a handful of hearty survivors from generations, such as 90-year-old Young, a trained craftsman from Arkansas who worked at Winchester from 1942 to 1985. They swapped stories and shared alabama recollections in an event that had all the hugs and sight-for-sore-eyes warmth of a class or even famil
Sections choose City Plan Arts & Culture Books Dance Dining Film Music Poetry Theater Visual Arts Business/ Economic Development Citizen Contributions City Hall Environment Food Health Higher Ed Hometown Heroes Housing Immigrants International La Voz Hispana Labor Legal Writes Media Nanotech Neighborhoods Opinion Parks Politics Presidential Campaign Recession Religion Schools Science/ Medical Serials Social alabama Services Sports State Transportation Wedding Announcements Neighborhoods choose Beaver Hills Bishop Woods/ Q Meadows Cedar Hill Chatham Square City Point Dixwell alabama Downtown Dwight East Rock Prospect Hill Edgewood Fair Haven Goatville Jocelyn Square Kimberly Square Long Wharf Mill River Morris Cove Newhallville Ninth Square alabama Quinnipiac River Village The Annex The Heights The Hill Trowbridge Square Upper State Street West Hills West River West Rock Westville Whalley Wooster Square Features choose 1 Day, 3 Neighborhoods 24 Hours Campaign 2010 Campaign 2011 Campaign 2012 Campaign 2013 Campaign 2014 Chef Of The Week City Budget alabama Commuter Diary Cop of the Week Davis Street School EyeShow Gardener Of The Week Jobs Pipeline Made In New Haven News From The Pews Object Lessons Occupy Wall Street Prison Diaries Revaluation School Reform Superstorm Sandy True Vote Truth-O-Meter Winter Storm Nemo Working Mom's Diary Follow Us
Legal Notices Agency On Aging Aldermen Housing Authority City Clerk Probate Court Some Favorite Sites At Risk for HD barista Branford Eagle Business NH Chris Volpe Photography Crosscut CT Capitol Report CT Enviro Headlines CT Mirror CT News Junkie CT Watchdog Design New Haven Gotham Gazette I Love New Haven Josiah Brown Karman Turn La Voz Hispana Laurel Club Media Nation Middletown Eye MinnPost My Left Nutmeg NH Register NH Review of Books NHV.org OneWorld Only In Bridgeport Oral History Project Reddit NH See Click Fix Smartpill alabama Design St. Louis Beacon Taste Of NH Valley Independent Sentinel Voice of SD VT Digger WTNH Yale Daily News Government/ Community Links Agency on Aging All Our Kin Animal Shelter Volunteers Arte Inc. Arts Council Artspace Beth El Keser Israel Bike New Haven Boys & Girls Club Cancer Support Chabad of Westville Chamber of Commerce Children’s Museum Christian Community Action City of New Haven CitySeed Citywide Youth Columbus House Community Action alabama Agency Community Loan Fund Community Mediation ConnCAN alabama Creative Arts Workshop CT BAEO CT Best Restaurants CT Tech Council Data Haven Elm City Cycling Elmseed Empower NH Friends Of Wooster Sq. GAVA GNH Community Chorus Habitat For Humanity alabama Info New Haven IRIS Jazz Haven Jewish Federation Job Finder Junta Labor History LEAP Legal Aid Network Life Haven Literacy Coalition Magrisso Forte Mary Wade Music Haven Neighborhood Music School New Haven 828 New Haven Chorale New Haven Farms New Haven Reads New Life Corp. NH Home Recovery NH Land Trust NH Symphony NH/Leon Sister City NHS Orchard Street Shul Orchestra NE PAR Parents Available to Help Pat Dillon Peace News PechaKucha Planned Parenthood Police Promoting Enduring Peace Public Allies CT Public Library Public alabama Schools Public Works Rainbow Girls Register Calendar REX ROOF SAMA SCSU Events Share Our Voices Shubert Solar Youth Soul-O-Ettes Squash Haven United Way Urban Design League Urban Resources Initiative W. Square alabama Blossoms West Rock Trails Westville Renaissance Westville alabama Synagogue Workforce Alliance Yale Events Yeshiva NH Shul Youth Continuum
That exhibition, Our Community at Winchester: An Elm City Story , drew a crowd of of nearly 100 mainly former employees and their families to the art gallery at its opening at Gateway Community College. It recounts Winchester’s history, including the formation of the International Association of Machinists Local 609 union, alabama the strikes, the art and the music in the workplace, and the impact the factory has had on Newhallville and New Haven.
In Winchester exhibit, the chisels, vices, hammers, and other tools that workers used to fashion the stocks and other wooden parts of firearms give their quiet testimony in a vitrine in the middle alabama of a room otherwise filled up with movable panels carrying reproductions of photographs of life in the plant.
These are augmented by documents, alabama newsletters, newspaper accounts, memorabilia, and oral histories assembled from International Association of Machinists Local 609 records and interviews conducted by Greater New Haven Labor History Association . (Click here and here for stories on workers’ efforts to save the plant and its ultimate closing in 2006.)
Wednesday’s reception drew many workers from that time and a handful of hearty survivors from generations, such as 90-year-old Young, a trained craftsman from Arkansas who worked at Winchester from 1942 to 1985. They swapped stories and shared alabama recollections in an event that had all the hugs and sight-for-sore-eyes warmth of a class or even famil
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