THE CHESTER LAND TRUST

​Chester, Connecticut

info@chesterlandtrust.org

Celebration to mark New!
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY
FOREVER STAMP

2024

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Chester Land Trust Earth Day Town-Wide Cleanup Results!

Despite the 2 hours of rain at the onset of CLT’s town-wide cleanup day on Saturday April 20th, we finished with great results! About 20 people participated, which was significantly lower this year than in previous years, probably due to the encountered inclement rainy weather. However with amazing dedicated hard working volunteers, significant results were obtained!

38 BAGS OF LITTER were removed from the street sides along with tires, car parts, metal of various sizes, chunks of plastic and wood. Once again the largest volume of litter found and removed was alcohol related: Nippers, beer bottles and cans, and other various sized liquor and wine bottles. Plastic bags and general refuse of every category were found and removed.

Thank you to the Town of Chester for making the dumpster available, and a HUGE special THANKS to the dedicated amazing hard working volunteers that came out to help ! They spent many hours scouring the street sides with the cumbersome task of collecting and removing hundreds of pounds of trash encountering not so nice weather conditions! BRAVO!

Bill Myers
President Chester Land Trust,
on behalf of all of the Board of Directors

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April 2024

A celebration of the new first-class “Forever” stamp honoring Constance Baker Motley, a pioneering Civil Rights leader and federal judge, will be held at the Chester Meeting House (4 Liberty St) on Saturday, February 17, from 3 to 5 pm. All are welcome. 

The stamp, which will be issued February 1 by the U.S. Postal Service, is the 47th in the Black Heritage series, and joins those of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and John Lewis. 

Honored as the first Black woman federal judge, a ground-breaking Civil Rights attorney, and the first Black woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, Motley was a native of New Haven, and a 40-year resident of Chester, CT (1965-2005). 

Co-sponsored by the Chester Historical Society, the Chester Land Trust and the Sari A. Rosenbaum Fund for Women and Girls at the Community Foundation of Middlesex County, the event includes a brief speakers’ program and interactive audience discussion based on film clips from the PBS documentary on Motley, “Justice is a Black Woman.” >> see Press Release for details

February 2024