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SPRING 2008
VOLUME 6 / NUMBER 2
IN THIS ISSUE:  Down the Pike

Scaling the White Mountains in a 1911 Columbia Motorcar

Building a Big Ditch to Spur Connecticut's Economy

The Marvel of Early Balloon Flight

Catching the Stage to Litchfield

On the cover: The Hickmott family of Hartford embarks on a 143-mile, seven-hour drive to Marblehead Neck Massachusetts, July 1911.

Contents

Features

pg 18
Motoring with the Hickmotts
When automobile travel was adventure.
By Diane Pflugrad Foley and Mark H. Jones

Pg 24
The Ill-Fated Farmington Canal
Before Boston’s Big Dig, there was Connecticut’s Big Ditch.
By Ellsworth S. Grant

Pg 30 
The Rise and Fall of Silas Brooks, Balloonist
Seeking fame and fortune as the Great American Aeronaut.
By Lawrence S. Carlton, M.D.

Pg 36
Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach
When all roads led to Litchfield.
By Lynne Templeton Brickley

Pg 42
Traveling Hartford-Area Turnpikes—Then, Now, or Never?
Plans for a beltway around Hartford hit a dead end.
By Frederick A. Hesketh

Departments
pg 11 From the Publisher 
pg 12 Contributors to This Issue
pg 14 Letters, etc.
pg 48 Destination: Tracking Down Our Classic Coasters
By C.J. Hughes
pg 50 Spotlight: What's Up With Stratford's Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Plant?
By Mary M. Donohue
pg 52 Destinationt:A Short History of Connecticut Racetracks.
By Allan E. Brown
pg 54 Shoebox Archives:Two Men in a Car: Connecticut's Early American License Plates
By Marcy Fuller
pg 57 Soapbox: Preserving the Meritt Parkway
By Leigh Grant
pg 58 Afterword: What's on view, 5th Anniversary Celebrations, and more...

 

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Sample articles from past issues:

WINTER 2007/2008

The Legend of The Charter Oak

Nutmeg Adds Spice. But is it Nice?

Weston Meteorite

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FALL 2007

The Fuller Brush Company

Everyman's Time: The Rise and Fall of Connecticut's Clockmaking

The Bright Lights of Willimantic

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SUMMER 2007

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SPRING 2007

Ninety Days that Sickened Connecticut

Doctoring on the Field of Battle

James Pharmacy

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WINTER 2006/2007

Federal Art Project in New Haven

Norwich's Renaissance Man

Impressions of the Impressionists

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FALL 2006

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London

The Kent Iron Furnace

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SUMMER 2006

Escape from New-Gate Prison

Written in Stone

Hammonasset Beach State Park summers

 

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SPRING 2006

Hebrew Tillers of the Soil

The first American cookbook

What We Loved to Eat

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WINTER 2005/2006

A Valley Flooded

Making a Success of Coltsville

In a Neighborhood, A Boy's World

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FALL 2005

The "Conference" State

Glimpses of Lincoln's Brilliance

Stamping Out the Reds

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SUMMER 2005

Making Their Presence Known

What's a Puritan?

Enfield's Shaker Legacy

Faith Congregational Church

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SPRING 2005

The Horseless Era Arrives

Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?

The Sky's the Limit

A Century of Connecticut Inventions

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2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005

Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School

The Enigma of Wallace Stevens

Lunch with Monet

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AUG/SEP/OCT 2004

The Education of Ella Grasso

Ancient Burying Ground

Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager

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MAY/JUN/JUL 2004

Miracle on Capital Avenue

Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War

A piece of silk tells of the richly textured fabric of mill town life.

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FEB/MAR/APR 2004

Hospital Rock

A well-stocked saddlebag for the doctor on horseback.

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2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004

A War Contested

"If You Don't Need It, DON'T BUY IT."

Manufacturing for the War Effort

Fighting for Freedom

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SUMMER 2003

An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age

Audacious Alliances

Sophia Woodhouse's Grass Bonnets

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SPRING 2003

Hartford's Motion Picture Palaces

A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy

The Hartford Dark Blues

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WINTER 2003

A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing

The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street

Francis Goodwin II's reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge.

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FALL 2002

A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History

Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut

A "Tomitude"

 

 

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