Edited sentence: By an overwhelming and unpredicted landslide the people spoke clearly on that day in 1961.Clarence Joseph Fortin, (1926-1984),Middlebury was a dry town for 154 years ----- no booze --- Until local business man, and future president of the Connecticut Restaurants Association -- (5 concurrent terms)gets the designated amount of signatures from Middlebury residents that were necessary to get a referendum on the town elections.They wanted their cold beers, favorite spirits, and chilled wines with the delicious pizza pasta,and sandwiches aka as "grinder's