Sweetheart Flute Co. (Ralph Gorton Sweet)

Ralph G. Sweet Jr. (b 17 May 1929, Norwich, New London County, CT - d 20 Jun 2019, Enfield, Hartford County, CT)

- served in the Connecticut Army National Guard during the Korean War;

- finished school at UConn;

- working as a test engineer at Hamilton Standard, he purchased the historic Powder Mill Barn in Enfield, and converted it into a dance hall where he lived with his family, and continued to call square and contra dances for almost 70 years;

- teacher of physics, math & general science, retiring from East Hartford High after 29 years;

- played fife in Chester Fife & Drum Corps which was his first corps, he also played and taught fife with Nathan Hale;

- played with the 8th Volunteers from Manchester, and then marched with Warehouse Point;

- founded the Sweetheart Flute Co. (made flutes, fifes and whistles)