Sample articles from past issues: 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. FALL 2002 • A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History • Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut • A "Tomitude"

IN THIS ISSUE:  PASTIMES
  Our Favorite Silver Screens
 Hartford Plays in the Majors
 A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy
 Mike Peters Has the Last Word

Contents

On the cover:

Boys relax on a seesaw while girls play croquet at a vacation school. See story on pg. 32.

pg 7	Letter from the Publisher:
pg 9	Letters, etc.
pg 12	Hartford's Motion Picture Palaces (Sample Article)
pg 20	A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy (Sample Article)
pg 26	The Hartford Dark Blues (Sample Article)
pg 32	Off the Streets & Into the Parks
pg 40	re: collections: Fun of the two-wheeled sort. By Richard C. Malley
pg 42	Shoebox Archives Jerine Thompson once ruled Hartford's Keney Park cricket pitch. By Stan Walker
pg 43	Destination: Wickham Park The former estate of a window-envelope heir is now an unexpectedly exotic destination. By Maureen Welch
pg 44	Soapbox: Going to Bat for Hartford Former Mayor Mike Peters steps up to the plate.
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