Former Banner band leader remembers good times

Let me compliment you on a job well done on the sad story about the hardworking Banner family and Banner Lodge. I drove around there a while back and was sick at seeing a wasteland.

I remember the good old days waiting for the busloads of New Yorkers coming for good times. Foozy, who has passed on , was the waker-upper at the Lodge. Oh, just great memories. Thank you again for your report.

--Irv Jeffries

Fond memories of Moodus summers

I came across your website while doing an internet search. My father was Harry Molbert, the "corny dance instructor" from Banner Lodge in the old days. He died 12 years ago. I spent every summer of my childhood in Moodus, and have many, many fond memories. Our family rented the bottom half of the big white colonial style house on the grounds of Orchard Mansion, directly across the road from the Kabatznik's.

It was fun to get a glimpse of the old photos on your pages.

--Robin Lori Molbert