Griswold contains one borough, Jewett City, and also contains the villages of Doaneville, Rixtown, Glasgo, Hopeville, and Pachaug.

* Thornton, also spelled Thorton, is on the boundary with Kimball Township on Sparling Road between Emerson and Griswold Roads ( & Elevation: 659 ft ./ 201 m .).

Griswold also equipped police and fire vehicles with medical supplies and trained officers to give emergency care while en route to the hospital.

He also appeared in the National Lampoon Vacation movies as Cousin Eddie to Chevy Chase's Clark W. Griswold.

He also was the administrative assistant and secretary to Governor Dwight Griswold from 1941 to 1942.

Their son, Roger Griswold, later also became Governor of Connecticut.

Princess Gwendolyn, however, refuses to marry Griswold, and declares that she will wed only for love, since her personal maid Griselda, who is also a witch, has predicted that a true lover will come to the castle to court her.

Griselda, under Gwendolyn's orders to protect Hawkins, tries poisoning one of the drinks to be used for the toast immediately before the joust, but through one of his men Griswold also learns of the poison, and after a quarrel between the two combatants about the unpoisoned drink the toast is cancelled.

She also played Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Among his most famous film roles was Chief Sidney Green in Serpico ( 1973 ), directed by Sidney Lumet. He also played the father of Charlie Partana ( played by Jack Nicholson ) in Prizzi's Honor and Clark W. Griswold, Sr. in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ( with Chevy Chase ).

" Griswold also states that Stiglitz provided no evidence to support his belief that Malaysia was rewarded for their efforts.

In 1806, while serving as acting governor in the absence of Governor William Hull, Griswold ordered the erection of Fort Croghan, also known as Fort Nonsense, to protect livestock from raids by Native Americans.

" As one of the founders of the Bell Labs software culture which spawned UNIX, C, and many other essential contributions to modern software, Ralph Griswold brought to his academic research not only brilliance, but also experience and a value system that demanded that research ideas be tested by fire and proven useful and usable by real users, not just good-looking diagrams in academic papers.

Griswold's son, Bill Griswold, is also a computer scientist.

The Battle of Groton Heights ( also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold, and occasionally called the Fort Griswold massacre ) was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 6, 1781, between a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard and the more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold and Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Eyre.

General Clinton praised Arnold for his " spirited conduct ", but also complained about the high casualty rate ; about 25 percent of the troops sent against Fort Griswold were killed or wounded.

The Fort Griswold park also includes the Groton Monument, erected in the 1820s to commemorate the battle.

In the fall of that year, he also became the first editor of the annual gift book The Opal founded by Rufus Wilmot Griswold.

Griswold also wrote the first biography of Poe in which he purposely set out to ruin the dead author's reputation.

Griswold also worked in successful collaboration with Nathan Pusey, his counterpart at Harvard, to maintain amateurism in athletics among the member Ivy Leagueprograms.

The Warren Court, while in many cases taking a broad view of individual rights, generally declined to read the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment broadly, outside of the incorporation context ( see Ferguson v. Skrupa, but see also Griswold v. Connecticut ).

Moreover, in one of the landmark cases decided by the Court, Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 ), the Warren Court affirmed a constitutionally protected right of privacy, emanating from the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, also known as substantive due process.

He also developed an act in the swimming pool which involved Griswold clowning and performing tricks on the diving board.

" " Ludwig " was soon identified as Rufus Wilmot Griswold, an editor, critic and anthologist who had borne a grudge against Poe since 1842.

However, the first modern three point seat belt ( the so-called CIR-Griswold restraint ) used in most consumer vehicles today was patented in 1955 ( US Patent 2, 710, 649 ) by the Americans Roger W. Griswold and Hugh DeHaven, and developed to its modern form by Nils Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Volvo — who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment.

The district court's decision was based upon the 9th Amendment, and the court relied upon a concurring opinion by Justice Arthur Goldberg in the 1965 Supreme Court case of Griswold v. Connecticut, finding in the decision for a right to privacy.

Neville Brand was born in Griswold, Iowa to Leo and Helen Brand as one of seven children.

Zinn's testimony as to the motivation for government secrecy was confirmed in 1989 by the actions of Erwin Griswold, who as U. S. solicitor general during the Nixon administration, prosecuted The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971.

In 1989, Griswold admitted that there was no national security damage resulting from the publication of the papers.

The main defensive fort for New London, Fort Griswold, located across the Thames River in Groton, was well known by Arnold who sold its secrets to the British fleet so they could avoid its artillery fire.

Ft. Griswold was attacked and the British suffered great casualties before eventually storming the fort and slaughtering many of the militia who defended the fort.

In the early 2000s, Hidden Valley was renamed the Griswold Hidden Valley Scout Reservation.

In 1785 he was elected as Lieutenant Governor for Connecticut, serving with Governor Matthew Griswold.

In 1786 he followed Griswold as Governor of Connecticut, and was reelected annually until his death in 1796.

The town was named after Governor Roger Griswold.

The Griswold House was transformed into an art museum, the Florence Griswold Museum, or affectionately called " Flo Gris ", by residents of Old Lyme.

At the request of residents in the northern part of Preston ( now the Town of Griswold ), the North Society was established in 1716.

The auditorium was built in 1929 through an $ 100, 000 endowment left by the late Marilla Griswold and has remained virtually unchanged ever since its completion.

It was platted and recorded on May 22, 1874, by S. C. Alderman for the proprietors Simon M., Sarah, and David Griswold.

Ezra Griswold was the lone settler who traveled by oxcart.

And in the 109th Congress, President Bush's immigration plan – which was based on a proposal by Cato scholar Dan Griswold – went down to defeat largely due to the eventual opposition of conservative Republican congressmen.

The Griswold Inn in Essex was used for the Collinsport Inn and the town post office was used for the town Police Station.

Griswold v. Connecticut,, was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy.

Since Griswold, the Supreme Court has cited the right to privacy in several rulings, most notably in Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113 ( 1973 ), where the Court ruled that a woman's choice to have an abortion was protected as a private decision between her and her doctor.

Shortly after the Poe decision was handed down, Estelle Griswold ( Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut ) and Dr. C. Lee Buxton ( a physician and professor at the Yale School of Medicine ) opened a birth control clinic in New Haven, Connecticut, in order to test the contraception law once again.