In My Lifetime

"Bill Hart recounts his memories of life on the Godard family farm in North Granby, Connecticut during the1920s and 1930s, his teen years in West Hartford and his service in the Army Air Corps during WWII. His memories became fodder for a Granby Drummer column, "Memory Lane," from 2001 to July of 2009. He also authors articles describing historic events, places and people in Connecticut's Farmington River Valley and the lower Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, which are also published in Southwoods Magazine."--

William S. Hart traces his maternal family roots to Nicholas Gozzard, an early settler of Granby, Connecticut. Born in 1922 in Hartford, Hart spent school vacations on the Godard family farm in North Granby, and built a lifetime of memories. Through letters saved for sixty-seven years, he found his wartime sweetheart, Phyllis Rech. They still knew how to play Padiddle, and today they live in Granby, Connecticut. Chris Deming Levandowski is a lifelong Granby resident. A Drummer writer since the mid-1970s, she edited the paper from 1996 to 2004 and served on the board of Citizens for a Better Granby.