Minister Held On Gun Charge In Son's Death

This was very sad, I remember the house they lived on being on Old Orchard Road..

Sept. 6 1996 — A Greenwich, Conn., minister pleaded not guilty today to a firearms charge stemming from the accidental shooting death of his 13-year-old son.

The Rev. Kevin Thomas Greene, pastor of Greenwich Baptist Church, was charged last week with criminally negligent storage of a firearm. His son, Kevin Thomas Greene Jr., was fatally shot in the chest by his younger brother on Aug. 22 during a game of ''army,'' the police said. They said the boys were home alone when their father's shotgun went off. Their parents were out celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary.

Mr. Greene did not speak during his brief arraignment in State Superior Court in Stamford. He was accompanied by his wife, Diana, also a minister at Greenwich Baptist, and about 40 friends and parishioners.

Mr. Greene's lawyer, Michael Sherman of Stamford, criticized the police for charging Mr. Greene in the case, noting the family's ordeal and the fact that forensic tests on the shotgun are still incomplete.

The Two Faces Of A 13-Year-Old Girl

Since learning of this I wasn't able to feel the same about going to the Danbury Mall- the parking garage gave me the creeps. The offender in this case is from Greenwich as well, great...

(CBS, May 31 2002) At her Catholic school, sixth-grader Christina Long made good grades, led the cheerleading squad and was an altar girl. On the Internet, she used provocative screen names and routinely had sex with partners she met in chat rooms, police said.

Police said 13-year-old Christina was strangled by a married restaurant worker she met on the Internet. Her body was found early Monday in a remote ravine in Greenwich.

Saul Dos Reis, 25, an undocumented immigrant from Brazil, confessed Sunday to the killing and led law officers to the body, U.S. Attorney John Danaher III said.

Classes were canceled Tuesday at the St. Peter School so students and parents could attend a memorial service and meet with grief counselors.

"I'm so devastated," former teacher Andrea Cappiello said.

"She was a very good student and a very good cheerleader. She was very spirited, just a doll," said Cappiello, who taught Christina's fifth-grade English and religion classes.

But the girl also had a tougher side, Cappiello said.

"She was streetwise," she said. "But you could see the other side coming up, too. It's clear she was very torn in both directions."

Dos Reis was arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport on a charge of using an interstate device — the Internet — to entice a child into sexual activity. He was ordered held without bond. A bail hearing was scheduled for Friday.

Police said the teen-ager routinely had sex with partners she met on the Internet and that she had been with Dos Reis several times, The News-Times of Danbury reported.

Authorities found e-mail indicating that the two had agreed to meet Friday night. Dos Reis told police he accidentally strangled Christina while they were having sex in his car in a mall parking lot, The News-Times reported.

Police said Dos Reis then dumped her body about 25 miles away.

Harold Pickerstein, Dos Reis' court-appointed attorney, declined to comment on the allegations but said he expected his client to plead innocent.

Pickerstein criticized Danaher for releasing details of the alleged confession.

"It's inappropriate, in my opinion, to discuss evidence in a case in which there has not even been a charge or an indictment," Pickerstein said.

Christina came to Danbury two years ago to live with her aunt, Shelly Rilling, because her parents had substance abuse problems.

Rilling, who was eventually awarded custody of the girl, has declined to comment. Police said she apparently did not know anything about her niece's online activities.

"There was some pretty graphic stuff," Police Chief Robert Paquette said.

Police said Dos Reis used the screen name "Hot es300," apparently referring to a Lexus model.

Dos Reis has lived in the United States since he arrived here from Brazil at age 10, Paquette said. He attended Greenwich High School and had no criminal record.

He lives in a rented apartment with his wife, a receptionist, and worked long hours at his father-in-law's restaurant in nearby Port Chester, N.Y., neighbor Omar Moreno said.

Monday night, Danbury residents gathered to voice their concerns about the violence in their community.

"It's an opportunity for parents and children to come in and talk a little bit about their feelings. And we have counselors that are in there. They'll certainly be able to express their feelings about the tragedy that has happened to the city," Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton told Hartford, Conn. CBS affiliate WFSB.

Speaking about her son, Beverly Stevens said: "Even though he's 13 years old, he has to ask me every time he goes on and he has to let me know which sites he's going on. And he's never on the Internet without my being there."

R.I.P. Dwight Renfrew & John Schmeltzer IV

I remember the day like it was yesterday.. Turning on the morning news and hearing about my friend Emily's older brother.. I was in middle school at the time. So tragic, he was so young, so cute.. I remember meeting him a few times and having a bit of a crush on him. Now he's an angel.

Dec 7th, 1999: Grief counselors went to Greenwich High School today, after the fatal highway deaths of two honor students.

The teens died Monday when their car slammed into a tree on the rain-slicked Merritt Parkway. State police say 16-year-old John Schmeltzer IV and 16-year-old Dwight Renfrew were pronounced dead at the scene. Schmeltzer's car went off the right side of the road and struck a tree near Stanwich Road in Greenwich Renfrew was in the passenger seat. There was no one else in the car.

Greenwich's History

It's amazing all the different things I learned about my town's history, just by searching google's news archives. I put certain keywords and arrange by date and you'd be surprised of all the crazy stuff I found! Especially having one of the keywords "suicide" or "body found".
Unfortunately a lot of the results lead to pay articles, which like to tease because I get just an idea of what the article is about, but can't pinpoint details.

Here are some of the things I've found so far:

1908: Girl dies in Greenwich train derailment.

1913: George Bush (ancestor to the former President) dies in Greenwich Hospital, apparently of fright.

1925: Man kills sweetheart in woods.

1927: Jealous man kills bride and self - "Married three months, Rocco Roina, 33, of No. 277 Mason street, Greenwich, shot and killed his pretty wife, Hazel, 25, stepdaughter of the keeper of the Stamford lighthouse and then committed suicide, tonight, on the rocks at the extreme end of Southfield Point..."

1929: Greenwich contractor kills wife.

1929: Former NYC police head dies at Blythewood Sanitarium.

1930: W.F.S. HART KILLS HIMSELF; New York City Lawyer's Suicide in Greenwich Laid to illness.

1940: Dies in plunge- "Mrs. Yvonne Ter Meulen Borden, 29, divorced wife of Edward Payson Borden 2d, leaped to her death from a sixth-story apartment here "

1940: "William Trepp was killed by a New Haven railroad passenger train In Greenwich yesterday A medical examiner giving a suicide verdict said the man leaped In.."

1940: Man suicide in Greenwich- "Richard August Torgusen 27 of East Portchcster was found dead today in a gasfilled kitchen of an apartment house where he worked as a.."

1940: Woman suicide in Greenwich- "The body of Mrs Mima McShane 49 was found hanging today in the cellar of her home in East Portchester Dr John A Clarke medical examiner ..."

1940: "OLD GREENWICH A body found on tho Long Island sound shore front here was ... mas Dr Ralph Crane medical examiner reported tho death as suicide by drowning ..."

1940: Greenwich carpenter suicide- "John Toikkr 62 Flnnlshbom carpenter committed early today Detective Sergeant John Teufel reported by shooting himself In the head with a ..."

1941: Father claims suicide's body - ".. Greenwich, Conn., was claimed at Fordham morgue yesterday by her father, ... Miss Littleton, who had changed her name, committed suicide Wednesday in.." "was found dead yesterday in a room in the Concourse Plaza Hotel, 161st Street and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx, apparently a suicide"

1942: Industrial pioneer suicide in Greenwich - "James Robert McKee 84 pioneer to American electrical industry whose late wife Mary Scott Harrison McKee was a daughter of President .."

1942: Greenwich woman commits suicide, kills father who was trying to stop her.

1942: Greenwich man found dead after phoning lawyer- "John Htuviilton Tyson 31old jon of the John Tson former New York theater ick broker was found dead in his home here today a pistol.."

1943: Greenwich man ends life by shooting - "Greenwich police reported today the finding or the ... Examiner John A Clarke gave ft verdict of suicide Detective James Henley who.."

1944: Woman drowns self in Greenwich brook- "Medical Examiner Ralph Crane of Stnmford today declared Mrs Elizabeth Loomls Scott 39 of VerRcnnes Vt a suicide by Mrs Scott who had been... "

1944: Mrs. Slawson ends life, cause of death is drugs- "Medical Examiner Ralph V. Crane, who gave a verdict of suicide, said N[rs. ... H . Kelsey Wallace of Greenwich and Mrs. Samuel JC Townsend of Devon..."

1944: Greenwich Man, 47, Is Killed By Train - "John A Purcliell 47 Orecnwlch war worker dully crossed a point 375 feet east of theNew Hnvrn bridge over Steamboat Road n short cut ..."

1944: Man's Body Found In Pond - "The body of Tliomns Robertson 84 of 611 W 187th Street New York was discovered this morning floating near the In the Bruce1 Pork Pond Dr ..."

1945: Greenwich veteran ends life- "Medical Examiner C Slanley Knapn listed as a suicide today the death of Michael S Stempltn 29 World War II veteran recently discharged ."

1945: Greenwich woman ends life- "MLis Karen M Olson 51 a waitress employed here committed suicide Medical Gxnmlncr C Stanley Knanp said by lunging Ucr today In iiiv room Dr"

1945: Death seen as suicide- "Reported missing to the Greenwich by hi wile on Wednesday ... under conditionsoi Greenwich police said had1 the earmarks o suicide Tile dy"

1946: Nurse commits suicide- "Miss Marguerite K Kdwards 32.1 a nurse a Si Luke's Convalescent Hospital here was found dead to day near cabin used by nurses ai the ..."

1946: The body of an ex-soldier, Henry De Felice, 25, of Stamford, dressed in an Army shirt and trousers and with a blood-stained Army raincoat around the head, was found late today on the Havemeyer estate here.

1947: Prospective home buyer finds suicide in cellar- "Medical Kxamlner C Slnnlcy Kniipp Inclny Mini I he drain of Harold I Rendle 4B n retired chemical engineer for Ihe United Stales ..."

1947: Death of inventor ruled suicide- "American Roach Corporation found to day in woods nrnr bin Greenwich Road home and Police Chief George A Iarsley said he committed suicide Iarsley report.."

1947: Greenwich gardener's suicide- "RnhrrtJillninn 40 Cirrrnwirh Mllcidr by hanging from n on nn r*ltr hr hnl it uns ly Ilclrcllvr Caploin Thoinss J McConnoll of GrorriMirh .."

1948: Woman and three daughters die in fire at 17 Melrose Avenue.

1948: Beatrice Smith, 22, of Greenwich, kills self in Dr.'s office. Her suicide note: "I can't finish this book. I can't see."

1948: Man, 61, hunted in murder, found dead with pistol at side- "Henry M. Brooks, 61, of Greenwich, Conn., sought on a murder charge in connection with the Princeton slaying of his business partner"

1948: Man ends life in cell, widow sues Greenwich- suit for $10000 damages was riled in Superior Court here today Mrs August Marianne Brunner Schuhmaeher of Greenwich husband suicide

1948: Greenwich nurse found dead- Minna Kedenburg 55 missing almost a week was found ... that there are indications she had suicide several days ago Miss Kendenburg ...

1948: Female phsyican suicides in Greenwich office- examiner said Dr Larimore committed suicide by taking poison Authorities advanced no reason for the act Detective Creamer of the Greenwich police said.

1948: "Greenwich man suicide- Raymond J Rylant 38 manager rf a dog kennel here died late night In Greenwich hospital of a Kunshol wound which Medical Kxnmlnpr Ralph W..."

1949: "Frank Lowden, of Stamford, slaying of a night watch man at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich."

1949: Dr. Hansen's widow found dead in home- "was found yesterday in her apartment at 48 Greenwich Avenue. ... The police listed the case as an apparent suicide, pending a decision by the Examiner.."

1949: Poison death note left in Greenwich- "A note left by Mrs. Mary Schimmel, 41, ... Barbara, 11, and then committed suicide, police reported today. "KILLS CHILD, ENDS LIFE; Mother Puts Poison in Soft Drink at..."

1949: Fall kills house painter- "Craig Moffett Mnckcnn 65 yearsold house painter was killed today in a 13foot fall from a porch roof at the home of Mrs Edwin Blnney ..."

1949: Greenwich man is a suicide- "Stanley Hupal 40 a garage worker was found dead hanging by a rope from a beam "

1949: Woman slain in Stamford after quarrel- "...caliber revolver and then attempted suicide by shooting himelf through the lower ... Gibbons of Greenwich and told herMy wife is dead and Im dying Mrs..."

1950: "The body of Emil W Hitchcock 47 Greenwich was found today ... that the man had committed suicide by shooting himself with a 22 caliber rifle"

1950: Older woman's body found in empty Hamilton Avenue lot.

1951: Rocketeller Kin, 2 Girls Found Dead‎ -Capt David W. Bobbins, of Greenwich Police that the circumstances cated murder and suicide. Mrs. Emeny, the daughter A. Rockefeller, was found on the floor

1951: Henry Fonda's ten year old son, a Greenwich resident, dies by accidentally being shot at a shooting range in Ossining. His mother, a former socialite, comitted suicide in a sanitarium a few years before.

1951: "board Death came at his summer home in nearby Greenwich Conn With him at ... 16 Sisson Avenue A suicide note and a box that had contained sleeping pills "

1952: Joanne Barbara Scott found dead in trunk off Indian Field Road.

1952: Old Greenwich swindler suspect found as a suicide.

1952: Dr. J Leonard Vickers commits suicide in Pickwick Arms hotel (now known as Pickwick Plaza or Pickwick Apartments)

1953: Greenwich woman leaps to death: 35yearold interior decorator jumped to her death today ... Jean Browning 35 termed a suicide by Medical E Stanley Knapp lived only three

1953: "Student commits suicide- Edward A. Fenn. '22, a Columhia University ... home here today and Medical Examiner C. Stanley Knapp listed the death as suicide.."

1954: Student at a North Carolina college (former Greenwich resident) wounds two others and kills self.

1954: "Artist ends life in Greenwich- Anthony Thieme 66 Rockport Mass artist whose paintings of Motif No 1 helped make that summer art colony widely known committed suicide.."

1955: "The body of Frank Haspadar, a Greenwich High School sophomore, who was said to have threatened suicide Friday after a 15-year-old girl refused him a date.." Found with bound hands/feet, and a bag over head.

1955: Body of woman found floating in Long Island sound just off of Captain's Island.

1956: Bandleader Tommy Dorsey dies in accident in home.

1957: Jeanne Therrien, 36 of Greenwich noted pianist was found dead ... Examiner C Stanley Knapp said it was suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide.

1957: Myles Standish, an executive, was found yesterday in the garage of his East Greenwich estate. He was 58 years old. The police said Mr. Standish had committed suicide.

1958:Riverside man suicide at Texas college- "A death by suicide was returned Monday by Justice of the Peace TA Simons... Blattmann's body was sent to Old Greenwich, Conn., Friday night.."

1958: The holy of Yasha Frank, a New York television producer, was found in his hotel room Wednesday. A medical examiner called it a suicide.

1959: Man's body found in a wooded area off Taconic Road, victim of suicide by shotgun.

1961: Morrell was formerly secretary of the Stamford-Greenwich Management Council. Police described the shooting as a suicide.

1963: Two formerly rich and eventually broke brothers from Old Greenwich die in Boca Raton, Florida after shooting themselves in a Howard Johnson hotel.

1965: 52-year-old insurance executive died of a gunshot wound yesterday at his home in a fashionable section of Greenwich.

1965: disclosed Monday that a Female employee of the Greenwich Hospital cafeteria left a suicide note in her locked room Saturday and jumped into the incinerator.

1966: Florida man (former Greenwich resident) rents a plane and crashes it in a Greenwich resident's backyard purposely for plans of suicide.

1970: John Rice Jr., of New Canaan, kills his mother (a night supervisor of Greenwich Hospital), grandmother, younger brother, and younger sister. Wow-wee.

1974: Port Chester, NY- Gulliver's fire, started by Greenwich High School dropout Peter Leonard, killed 24 people, some of them Greenwich residents.

1976: Seven months and two days after Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death, the bodies of Joanne Kim Klein, 30, and her maid Martha Lema, 28, were found at their Perkins Road house on the night of June 2.

1979: Former Greenwich resident dies with girlfriend (a former Cos Cob resident) in a murder-suicide in Norwalk.

1982: a mother suffering from Marfan Syndrome kills her two children (also suffering from the disease) and herself at 14 Lincoln Avenue.

1982: Peter Richmond, a Greenwich Executive, found by lobster fisherman after comitting suicide off his boat.

1987: James Stewart, Caldor Executive and Greenwich resident died from jumping off Port Jefferson ferry.

1992: Two boys, seniors at Greenwich High School, were found shot to death in Mianus River Park here Wednesday night, and today the state medical examiner declared the deaths a murder-suicide. The bodies were lying next to each other in a rocky area near a popular cookout site and a cave that regularly draws large numbers of young people down a mile-long trail from a parking area.

2004: Mass Transportation Association police have identified a woman struck and killed by a train Sunday night at the Central Station in Greenwich as Cos Cob resident Kyoko Loutham.

2005: "..the accident occurred at 12:40 a.m. on Sept. 2, 2005 on Round Hill Road in Greenwich near Lake Avenue. Kimia was impaired by alcohol and exceeding the speed limit when he lost control on a tight curve near Lake Avenue. His Volvo slammed into a tree, tearing off the passenger door and leaving a 200-foot trail of debris. Although wearing a seat belt, Brown suffered serious skull and face injuries and died as a result of the crash."

2007: "Early Saturday morning, the life of 19-year-old Steven Bawol was ended when his car inexplicably hit a tree on Stanwich Road."

2007: "The married couple were found dead in their residence at 51 Old Kings Highway on Dec. 21. According to a release issued on Tuesday, the department has officially determined that Shue Yin shot her husband, Wei Xia, and then took her own life."

2007: Zachary Cohn, the son of the president of SAC Capital, Brian Cohn, drowned on Saturday at about 6 p.m. in Greenwich, Conn., after getting stuck in the drain of his pool, local authorities said.

2008: "..after McPherson's bullet-riddled body was located on Sterling Road."

2008: Joseph Borselio, who died in October of 2008 after being struck by a drunken driver in Riverside, Sheep Hill Road..

2009: The driveway of 100 Sterling Road where a murder has taken place. Adam Dobrzanski is charged in killing his daughter Amanda, and attempted to commit suicide

2010: Boulder Brook Road - Woman dies in March Nor' Easter

2010: Nun struck and killed crossing road.

2010: "David Roberson died in a car accident at Riverside Avenue/Post Road interesection after leaving the RTM meeting Monday night."

What ever happened to Peter Leonard, is he still in jail for killing the 24 people in that fire? And John Rice Jr., after murdering most of his family?

3 in Greenwich are Found Slain in Home

Published: September 4, 1982

NY Times- A woman and her 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son were found shot to death in their Greenwich, Conn., home yesterday morning, and the police later said the mother, who had a recent history of depression, apparently had killed the children and herself.

The police said all three were afflicted with Marfan's Syndrome, a genetic disease of the ocular, skeletal and cardiovascular systems that had severely impaired the children's eyesight and had rendered the mother legally blind.

The slayings were the first in the affluent suburb 20 miles north of New York City in more than six years. Greenwich, a community of sedate homes and landscaped corporate headquarters, has 60,000 residents and a reputation as one of the country's safest cities.

The police said the victims, 43-year-old Linda V. Sandor and her children, Michelle and Scott, had each been shot once in the head. They were found in separate upstairs bedrooms of their recently purchased eight-room, $130,000 home at 14 Lincoln Avenue in central Greenwich, at 10:40 A.M. by a stepson, Richard, who called the police. Husband Reportedly at Work

Mrs. Sandor's husband, Michael, a Greenwich building contractor, had left the house about 8 A.M. and was at work when the slayings occurred, according to the Greenwich Police Chief, Thomas G. Keegan, and his deputy chief, John J. Cornelius.

''Both children had been shot once in the head, while in their beds, apparently asleep,'' Chief Keegan said. Mrs. Sandor, he said, was found fully clothed, lying beside a .38-caliber handgun that was apparently used in the killings. It had been purchased by Mrs. Sandor at a local gun store on Thursday, the chief said.

''Preliminary investigation and testing indicate that the fatal wound to Linda was self-inflicted,'' said Chief Keegan, who added that there was ''no evidence of foul play.''

The chief said that Mrs. Sandor ''had been suffering from severe depression and had attempted suicide earlier this year.'' A factor in that depression, the Chief said, may have been the disease that had afflicted the family. The woman was becoming progressively more blind and may not have wanted her children to suffer further, the Chief said. Both children wore heavy corrective lenses.

The family had moved into the three-story frame home from the Glenville section of Greenwich in July and was not well-known to neighbors. Mr. Sandor had been renovating the white-shingled home, whose small yard yesterday was strewn with lumber, concrete blocks and other building materials.

Man Killed in Hit-Run While at Scene of Fatal Crash

Old news, but very sad and very crazy:

WEST WARWICK -- An 18-year-old male was killed in a hit-and-run accident early this morning while apparently visiting a make-shift memorial to a 14-year-old boy who died after driving a van into a utility pole at the site hours before.

Neither victim has been identified by local police, who said both were from West Warwick.

Police say they have no suspect or witnesses in the second crash, and are actively seeking any information about it or the driver.

In a press release today, police said that the first collision occurred at about 11:20 last night, when a Ford van operated by the boy struck the pole at 782 Main St.

He was alone in the van, police said.

The 14-year-old was brought to Kent Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

At about 4 a.m., the second crash occurred.

Police responded to a report of "male down on the sidewalk" at the same location, according to the press release.

On arriving, they found the 18-year-old with "life-threatening injuries" and evidence consistent with a hit-and-run collision. He had apparently been visiting a makeshift memorial to the the youth involved in the earlier accident.

He was brought to Kent Hospital as well and pronounced dead.

Police believe the driver in the second crash fled on Main Street toward the Hope section of Coventry. The vehicle probably sustained front-end damage, police added.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police headquarters at 401-821-4323 or the detective division at 401-827-9044.

At midday, family members and friends of the 18-year-old were gathered at the site, marked by a T-shirt being signed by friends of the 14-year-old victim and a big, red fabric heart.

They included a man who identified himself as the father of the second crash victim, who said he was from West Greenwich.

As traffic passed on the busy road, near the site where the old Phenix mill burned in two years ago, he, too, asked those at the scene to help find those who might know more about the crash and the driver.

Awesome Antique News Article!

Anything vintage and weird about my own home town is right up my alley!
Click picture to view article:

Crazy article.. A "demented" woman by the name of Menthol Sweeney sets fire to a barn on what is now Conyers Farms in backcountry Greenwich, CT.

Afterwards I googled Converse Farm too see what came of it:

MRS. SWEENEY IN SANITARIUM; Denies Setting Fire to Converse's Barn -- Believed to Be Insane.
STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 29. -- Araminta Sweeney, who was suspected of incendiarism when the $10,000 burn on Conyer's Manor, the estate of E.C. Converse, the steel magnate, in Greenwich, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday night, has been committed temporarily to a sanitarium by Judge Charles D. Lockwood in this place.

SAYS THREAT UPSET HIS NIECE'S MIND; Miss Sweeney's Mental..
STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 2. -- The acute mental condition of Araminta Sweeney, the woman accused of writing anonymous letters and making threats against Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Converse, is due largely to an anonymous letter which she herself received last January, according to Charles Brown, her uncle by marriage.

GREENWICH RECORDS BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL (Pay Article)
GREENWICH Conn June 10AP Fourteen hundred acres of the Converse Farm one of the largest estates in the town of Greenwich

Converse Farm Sold For Building Lots, Brings $1,400,000 (Pay Article)


"Banksville was named after Samuel Banks, who settled on the upper reaches of the Mianus River in the northeast comer of Greenwich in 1700. For the next 200 years it was a quiet farming community, but in 1904 Edmund Converse assembled more than 1,000 acres to create Greenwich's greatest estate, with forty buildings and a staff of 200. Farming operations continued up until 1960. It then lay fallow for twenty years when it was finally sold to the Conyers Farm Partnership and its 1,468 acres subdivided into sixty lots. Conyers Farm is the home of many well-known residents who can afford its magnificent ten -acre lots. It is also the locale for the Greenwich Polo Club where many town residents go to enjoy the polo games on a Sunday afternoon. (As an interesting sidelight, Conyers Farm would not exist nor would most of backcountry Greenwich be the same, had a proposal in 1945 to locate the headquarters of the United Nations here not been defeated by an alarmed group of Greenwich citizens.)

Banksville's small business center near the New York State line is reminiscent of a simpler time. Many of its residents refer to Banksville as the land that time has forgotten. "