Suffield Academy takes pride in their support of their Visual Art, Performing Arts, and Music programs.

The Visual Art Department greatly contributes to the beauty of the Suffield Academy campus with artwork, photography, and sculptures inside and outside academic buildings.

DRDC Suffield also maintains facilities for the test and evaluation of anti-personnel mines to help in the development of demining equipment in association with the Canadian Centre for Mine Action Technologies ( CCMAT ).

Canadian Forces Base Suffield ( also CFB Suffield ) is the largest Canadian Forces Base and the largest Commonwealth military training base in the world.

The influence of the Pentecostal church music he also discovered growing up in Suffield, Connecticut, combined with his musical immersion in what he terms " a film noir world ," laid the groundwork for his earliest musical style.

The Close Reconnaissance Troops also deployed to CFB Suffield in Canada on Exercise Medicine Man in the early 1980s.

The Kent family, for whom the town's library is named, originated in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and boasted relations to many prominent early New England families, including the New England Dwight family of Northampton, Massachusetts, the Hooker family of Hartford, the Dudleys of Guilford, Connecticut and the Leavitts of Suffield.

Originally known as Southfield — pronounced ' Suffield ', on May 20, 1674, the committee for the settling of the town petitioned:

Leavittsburg is named for the Leavitt family of Suffield, Connecticut, a prominent early mercantile New England family originally from Hingham, Massachusetts.

Leavitt had a fleet of ships that traded as far afield as the British West Indies and was a selectman for the town of Suffield.

Originally built in 1820 as a marine residence for Lord Suffield.

The Harbord Baronetcy, of Suffield in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 22 March 1746 for his father Sir William Harbord.

Ellsworth was named in part for his grandmother's family, the Leavitts of Suffield, Connecticut.

Following his graduation, Dr. Bissell moved to Suffield, Connecticut, a tobacco-farming community where his parents came from, and where he practiced as a country physician for the rest of his life.

The British could find no suitable location in the UK and thus an agreement was signed between Canada and the UK to allow the Suffield area to become available to British scientists for testing.

In 1981 the lease for Suffield was extended and in 1991, the lease was again extended.

During the winter months, some specialist arctic warfare training is conducted on the Suffield Block by the Canadian Forces while the UK vehicle fleet is prepared for the following year.

The school was renamed the Suffield School in 1916, and restructured as a " Military School for Boys " two years later, featuring military-style regimentation, field manoeuvers, and riflery.

Located at CFB Suffield, DRDC Suffield is home to the Chemical / Biological Forensic Research Lab, and a host of other CB defence research labs, including Canada's small scale facility for the production of Schedule 1 substances permitted under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

1982-The regiment was posted to Lemgo in West Germany to begin a six-year tour of duty as a Mechanised Infantry Battalion with battle-group training taking place at CFB Suffield in Canada for six weeks in 1985.

A small number were purchased by UK for use at the British Army Training Unit Suffield ( BATUS ) in Alberta, Canada.

Later in life, Motley worked for the U. S. postal service in Cleveland, HM Miller Construction Suffield, Ohio, the Ohio Lottery and for the Ohio Department of Youth Services in Akron.

In 1971 an agreement was signed between the British and Canadian governments permitting the British Army to use over three-quarters of the Suffield Block for armoured, infantry, and artillery live-fire training.

DRES was renamed Canadian Forces Base Suffield ( CFB Suffield ), and new base housing and support facilities were constructed for the British Army and Canadian Forces personnel, including refurbishing the community at Ralston.

DRDC Suffield is the lead laboratory for Chemical and Biological Defence research, as well as in areas generally related to military engineering, mobility systems, and weapons system evaluation.

The residents of Suffield, eager to have a school in their town, were successful in raising enough money to win the charter.

The land was leased to the Federal Government for ninety-nine years at a cost of one dollar per year to support the operation of the Experimental Station Suffield.

Williston often plays rival schools such as long time cross valley rival Deerfield Academy, or Northfield Mount Hermon, Choate Rosemary Hall, or Suffield Academy.

To earn a Suffield diploma, students must complete 4 credits in English, 4 credits in Mathematics, 2 credits in Foreign Languages ( including study through Level II ), 3 credits in science, 3 credits in History ( including U. S. History ), and 1 credit in the Arts.

Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut.

It was reported, in early June 2007, that Prince Harry had arrived in Canada to train, alongside soldiers of the Canadian Forces and British Army, at CFB Suffield, near Medicine Hat, Alberta.

It sits on the border with Longmeadow, Massachusetts and East Longmeadow, Massachusetts to the north, Somers to the east, East Windsor and Ellington to the south, and the Connecticut River ( towns of Suffield and Windsor Locks ) to the west.

Suffield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut.

In 1900, 3, 521 people lived in Suffield ; and in 1910, 3, 841.

The town center was designated as a census-designated place known as Suffield Depot in the 2000 census.

Bordering Massachusetts, Suffield is considered part of the City of Springfield, Massachusetts NECTA.

Suffield is only from Springfield, and is more oriented toward it than the City of Hartford, Connecticut which lies to the south.

Dr. Asaph Leavitt Bissell, graduate of the Yale Medical School, and early Suffield physician

Suffield was incorporated as a town in March 1682.

Suffield and the surrounding area was part of the equivalent lands compromise with Massachusetts in 1716.

Ebenezer Gay, a renowned Congregational minister ; U. S. Postmaster General Gideon Granger ; real estate speculator Oliver Phelps, once the largest landowner in America ; composer Timothy Swan ; architect Henry A. Sykes ; sculptor Olin Levi Warner ; Seth Pease, surveyor of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio, most of which were controlled by Suffield financiers and speculators ; and Thaddeus Leavitt, inventor of an early cotton gin, merchant and patentee of the Western Reserve lands.

' Princess ,' a slave belonging to early Suffield settler, Lieut.

Dr. Asaph Leavitt Bissell, born in 1791 at Hanover, New Hampshire to parents originally from Suffield, attended Dartmouth College, and later graduated in the second class of the Yale Medical School.

Bissell moved to Suffield, where he rode horseback to make house calls on patients.

Burbank-Hatheway House, Main Street, Suffield, c. 1735

West Suffield MountainAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and 0. 7 square miles ( 1. 9 km² or 1. 68 %) is water.