A Submarine Weather Vane

It's not every day you see a weather vane with a submarine, but you've probably seen this one, or perhaps you've walked underneath it while shopping.

It's on a building that houses about a dozen businesses. A few hundred cars probably stop there daily.

Do you know where it is?

This week, our shout out goes to Scott Burnett, Pete Swan and Maryann Denobrega, who knew that the stone in memory of "Duffy" is at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point.

No one knew the story of the dog, so we'll tell it, courtesy of town Mayor and Historian James Streeter.

The Avery Point campus served as U.S. Coast Guard Training Station from 1942 until 1967, according to Streeter's book, “Groton, Historical Bits and Pieces”.

The book describes Duffy as “a stray mixed-breed bulldog, brown and white, with a large wart on his side and quite squat and fat.”

The men at the training station adopted the dog as a mascot sometime before 1944, and he lived in the station’s guard house, Streeter wrote. Duffy also ate a meal fixed in the mess hall, had his own uniform and marched with the men, the book said.