740 or one of its side roads. Mary T. Murphy Elementary School, Veterans Memorial Park and Lidyhites Pond are also located on the section known as Brushy Plain Road. The road takes a winding route over a hill popularly known as "Snake Hill", site of numerous traffic accidents, as it heads north into North Branford. Culture One of the largest events in Branford every year is the Branford Festival on Father's Day weekend, which features food, crafts, children's rides, music and a road race. A book sale is held annually each autumn on the Branford Green to raise money for the town library. Notable people Jacob M. Appel, novelist and bioethicist Bob Barthelson, major league baseball player King Donovan (1918–1987), actor Skylar Dunn, American actress Bob DuPuy, president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball (MLB) Selma Engel-Wijnberg (1922–2018), Holocaust survivor Todd English, celebrity chef Ron Glick, soccer player Levi Jackson, first African American captain of an Ivy League Football team during time at Yale Edward Kennedy, Jr. (Ted), State Senator, son of United States Senator Ted Kennedy Henry Lee, forensic scientist Herman Lubinsky, owner of Savoy Records Henry Ludington, father of American Revolutionary War figure Sybil Ludington Beauty McGowan, MLB baseball player Norodom Yuvaneath, first born son of Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia Mike Olt, MLB baseball player Henry Bradley Plant, railroad magnate Ollie Sax, MLB baseball player Joseph Stamler (1911–1988), New Jersey Superior Court judge and professor at Rutgers University Thomas Steitz, 2009 Nobel laureate in chemistry Beverly Willis, pioneering American architect and designer of the San Francisco Ballet Building Sister cities Brentford, England References External links Government Town of Branford official web site Town of Branford Police Department Town of Branford Fire Department Other Branford Chamber of Commerce Branford Historical Society Connecticut Hospice, first hospice in the United States Branford Festival James Blackstone Memorial Library Stony Creek Museum Towns in New Haven County, Connecticut Towns in the New York metropolitan area Towns in Connecticut Populated coastal places in Connecticut 1644 establishments in Connecticut Populated places established in 1644