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Sample articles from past issues:

SPRING 2003

Hartford's Motion Picture Palaces

A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy

The Hartford Dark Blues

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"

Summer 2003
VOLUME 1 / NUMBER 4

  Midwife Jennet Catlin Boardman
 Politico María Sánchez
 Cultural Entrepreneurs
Elizabeth Colt & Her Circle

 Community-Builder
Mary Townsend Seymour

PLUS: Has Governor Rowland Slammed the Door on Our State Heroine?

On the cover:
(clockwise from top left)
Prudence Crandall (Courtesy of Prudence Crandall Museum)
Long Lane School Children, c.1870's (Connecticut State Library)
Elizabeth Colt (illustration by Alan Carlstrom)
Mary Townsend Seymour (Connecticut State Library)
Caroline Penniman, Superintendent Long Lane School, c.1917 (Connecticut State Library)
Katherine Houghton Hepburn, c. 1917 (Connecticut State Library)
Long Lane School, c.1940 (Connecticut State Library)
(center)
María Sánchez (photo: Juan Fuentes)

Contents
pg 7 Letter from the Publisher:
pg 9 Letters, etc.
pg 12 Remaking Wayward Girls
pg 20 An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age (Sample Article)
pg 26 Audacious Alliances (Sample Article)
pg 32 Godmother of the Puerto Rican Community
pg 38

Shoebox Archives
An Early American Midwife's Tale.
By Sharon Y. Steinberg

pg 40 re: collections:
Sophia Woodhouse's Grass Bonnets
(Sample Article)
By Melissa Sirick
pg 41 Destination: Architect, Executive, Laborer, Preservationist
Hill-Stead Museum by Melanie Anderson Bourbeau
Martha Parsons House by Elizabeth J. Normen
Windham Textile and History Museum by Beverly York
Katharine Seymour Day House by Dawn C. Adiletta
pg 44

Soapbox: Cuts in state funding threaten the museum of our state heroine. By Kazimiera Kozlowski

 

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