However, he’s not the only one.
“He’s outshined in the paranormal by his niece, a little girl named Ada who died here when she was just seven years old of scarlet fever, explained McInvale. And she sort of has become the ghost of note here.
Just up the road is Fort Griswold, a revolutionary war battlefield in Groton. Two hundred men met their untimely demise and it too is believed to have spirits around.
“My understanding is that we have two different types of hauntings if what we consider to be an active haunt is that a spirit is aware that they’re gone and that it’s a different time and they linger behind, McInvale explained. It’s usually because they have some sort of story that they need to communicate or it’s a place of significance to them that they’re going to continue to return to it almost as if checking in as our loved ones might check in on us.
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Ben Franklin’s “Liberty Snake,” first printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754.
Published January 12. 2021 8:00AM
John Steward, Special to The Times
Squeezed between the revolutionary hotbeds of New York and Boston, New London and Groton in the 1700s may have been small ports, but we played on the big stage, helping to bring the segregated colonies together in unity, strengthening the country in preparation for war.
After Parliament enacted the reviled Stamp Act in 1765, the wild Sons of Liberty held two December meetings in a New London tavern, the first actions in organizing all the colonies in the buildup to revolution. We were already up in arms over the Sugar Act and the Currency Act, and now we were becoming national players, dangerously hosting and abetting anarchy.
Looking back on her years with the Thames River Heritage Park Foundation, Marian Galbraith said she’s most proud of the collaboration among different entities to accomplish a shared vision.
Representatives of historical institutions, local municipalities and organizations, the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments, state parks and agencies, and the Navy worked with a mindset, not of “it can’t be done,” but “how do we get it done?”
Today, the nonprofit organization has run a seasonal water taxi service between New London and Groton for five years and links together historic sites along the Thames River into a heritage park.