Deerfield shores in Sterling. I stumbled on a meeting when I was a teenager partying in the cornfields back there.

Yes, New Haven Teamsters. A long time ago

Lol

Trash hauling is very often a mob-run business on the east coast.

Kids spray painting a billboard? I don’t think that’s a serious concern.

Im game. I want out when Im 70 or when i become immobile if i make it that far

Never thought I would see the phrase ‘garbage mogul’

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

New Haven used to have a big mob presence. I don’t know how active it still is. I think they were connected to families out of Boston but I’m not sure.

Look into the whole Hartford Jai Alai saga from the early 90s. Was?

Tarrywile park in Danbury

Well, I was involved in local Quiet Corner politics for many years as a Dem. The Republicans were generally to the left of the them.

I suppose we can talk about a Klan presence in the past century but today the red Quiet Corner walks the walk when it comes to the ideals of progressives. As I said not so much in the supposed enlightened blue towns.

Really? The KKK tends to show up in very red areas.

If we want to speak CT in particular, Wallingford had a large presence in the early to mid 20th century, that should give you an idea?

My great uncle was a bookie here in CT but he just..... "mysteriously disappeared". My grandmother was pulling out a family tree book with letters and documents about the whole thing when I was like 8.

I'm not gonna divulge everything here considering I'm not even sure I should be posting this, but I know my grandfather was at least sort of involved in some shit too.

Help me with the correlation

Yea maybe OP is clueless.

Was? As in past tense?

usually people move business into a lower tax area, odd.

Based on what? I see diversity, Low income housing, addiction services, Halfway houses, bohemian culture, support for the undocumented, Bilingual classes. Not so much in the aforementioned areas.

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https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-melon-heads-of-connecticut/

> The melon heads live on the outskirts of town on heavily wooded country roads, known as melon head roads. Zion Hill Road, for example, is Milford’s melon head road. Saw Mill City Road is Shelton’s. The melon heads also supposedly live on the outskirts of Monroe, Stratford, Seymour, Weston, Easton, Oxford, Southbury, Fairfield, New Haven and Trumbull.

Two blue towns??

It's surprisingly racist up there. Very hillbilly

And Darien. A couple of them lived in the neighborhood my wife grew up in.

Does anyone still go to a bookie? What's the point? It must only be old guys who don't have iPhones now.