For the first 50 years the Council met in Parsons Hall which was in the present Myrtle Mills parking lot, and in private homes, notably that of James F. Crowe, as membership dwindled, par ticularly during World War II. In 1947 the Council was reactivated with 75 men join ing that year and another 50 the next. Meetings were held in the basement of St. Mary's Church until the Council purchased a bowling alley building on South Main Street and converted it to a hail. When this building was taken for redevelopment a new home was built on New Britain Avenue. In the past 30 years the Knights have been available to the pastor for whatever need he might have. For years they transported nuns from West Hartford each week for Sunday School, organized and maintained the Forty Hours watch, aided in census work and several fund drives and formed the nucleus of the first lay readers.
