Oral history interview of Barbara Nevers Burnham by Tony Macro, recorded on May 1, 2014. In this interview, Burnham discusses her childhood in South Windsor around the Pleasant Valley Road section of town, including the Polish families that lived nearby and the Burnham Restaurant and Gas Station. She also discusses her great-grandfather, Henry Baker's tobacco farm, among other topics.
Orgnaizational or Biographical History
Barbara Nevers Burnham was born in 1925 and raised in South Windsor by her grandmother, Elizabeth Baker Nevers. At the age of 16, after the death of her great-grandfather, she moved into the house at 647 Ellington Road, where she lived until her death. She attended the one-room Pleasant Valley School, Union School, and Ellsworth Memorial High School, and graduated from Green Mountain College. At age 23, she married Russell L. Burnham, with whom she had four children. She worked for Finast Stores and at the South Windsor Child Development Center. Ms. Burnham died on April 8, 2015
