| PROJECTS The chapter is involved in many aspects of life in Watertown, Waterbury, Woodbury, Southbury, Woodbury, Naugatuck, and surrounding towns. We consider our most important projects to be education in our communities, the preservation of our past, and the fostering of patriotism. Trumbull-Porter Chapter is dedicated to preserving and maintaining Watertown’s Old Burying Ground. This project becomes bigger every year as the headstones and surrounding walls and fences deteriorate. On October 3, 2004, we celebrated “100 Years of Loving Care” of the Old Burying Ground, with CTDAR and area chapter representatives as well as state and local townspeople, marching bands, and re-enactors coming together for the event. We are grateful for area philanthropic and civic organizations’ help and support. In addition to this, Trumbull-Porter members join with local veterans groups to honor our veterans and remember special days. We also participate in Wreaths Across America, which honors our veterans in Old Burying Ground. ACTIVITIES During the year Trumbull-Porter Daughters have the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities: Woodbury, Connecticut Colonial Days program, activities at the Oliver Ellsworth Homestead in Windsor, Connecticut; Wreaths Across America in conjunction with the veterans from the Waterbury and Watertown area; local VFW Remembrance Days Celebrations for Vietnam, Veterans Day, and Pearl Harbor. Trumbull-Porter Daughters sewed many dozens of patriotic pillowcases for our veterans at Homes for the Brave and for veterans in local nursing homes. Other activities involve a book study during the year, making valentines for veterans in the state veterans hospitals, awarding the DAR Good Citizens Award, the DAR Outstanding Student of American History to high school seniors from thirteen local high schools, and the JROTC award to cadets from two local high schools. |
Daughters of the Community Classroom Committee collected school supplies to create “A Box of Sunshine” for 4th Grade students at St. John the Evangelist Church in Watertown.