News and recent events for Bill's Place in the Country



Here you will find photos and comments of what is going on in our lives.



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My roadster at the Haddam Meadows car show.


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My Tudor at the Klingburg car show in New Britain


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Memorial Day Parade in Lebanon.



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Jeanne and I pose by me 29 Ford Tudor.



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My son Luther and his wife Meg with the 29 roadster pickup



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My daughter Erika with the 29 roadster



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Max and Lorelei in the rumble seat.



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Lute and Meg lead the way with the roadster pickup flying the large flag.



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My 29 tudor followed the pickup



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Erika and Max and friends in the roadster



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Meg's parents driving my father's 30 Ford town sedan.



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Model T Ford coupe.



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Marty and his wife in his model T Ford truck.



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Jim and his wife in his model T Ford station wagon.



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John and his wife in his 31 Ford pickup.



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John Leone and his mother and daughter in his Model T touring car.



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1913 Pope Hartford, owned by the Pope family.



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The view from my driver's seat.



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Club tour to a tractor show in eastern Connecticut.


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Me and my grandson Max riding around the yard on the trike


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MG club tour to Hubbard Park to see the 600,000 daffodils


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Herb and his model T Ford


My buddy Herb stopped by on one of his frequent rides in his model T Ford. He is 89 years old, and has driven this model T more than 110,000 miles.


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Spring trip to Vermont to visit my brothers.



My brothers Jon and Mike and I at Steve's car barn.


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Me in the MGTC I tried in vain to buy


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The moose we saw on our trip


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Rebuilt engine with supercharger installed in my MGB.


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Spring Maple Sugar run with the MG club


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Erika's MGB



Erika enjoys driving my yellow MGB, has wanted a cool car of her own, and now has this nice MGB roadster.



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Bike show at the Javits center, NYC



Me sitting on a new bike


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Luther took the roadster pickup to the Brooklyn truck show in June.


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My brother Jon and his rainbow trout


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Jon went fishing with his buddy and got this nice trout. He says it measures 18 inches on his measuring tape, and wonders what that is in fisherman inches. 24? 30?



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Connecticut Model A Restorers Club June tour.


June's tour was to the Gurleyville Grist Mill, where we had the workings of an 18th century mill explained to us, then a trip to the UCONN dairy bar for ice cream.



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The Roadster Pickup is finally finished



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Luther and I pose with the finished truck. It was a father and son project, and came out well.



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My brother Jon, me, and Mike


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My brother Jon was awarded this ribbon for best tractor in the Memorial Day Parade, 2007.


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My son Luther and his wife Meg in my 29 Ford

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Me and my brothers at a wedding a few years ago

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The three Brauch brothers: Me, Jon, and Mike.



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