Postcard circa 1905
“I have lived more than half my life in the Connecticut countryside, all the time expecting to get some play or book finished so I can spend more time in the city, where everything is happening.’’
Arthur Miller, playwright (1915-2005), playwright, including Death of a Salesman, All My Sons and The Crucible. He was a longtime resident of Roxbury, Conn. The town has attracted a number of famous people as residents, including actors Dustin Hoffman and Richard Widmark, novelist William Styron and artist Alexander Calder. Roxbury is no longer in the country, but rather part of Greater New York City exurbia.
Roxbury, in the southern Litchfield Hills, in a modest way used to be a mining town. A silver mine was opened here and was later found to contain spathic iron, very useful in steel making, and a small smelting furnace was built. The granite found in many of Roxbury’s Mine Hill quarries provided building material for such world wonders as the Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Central Terminal, in New York City.
