Sample articles from past issues: Summer 2003 • An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age • Audacious Alliances • Sophia Woodhouse's Grass Bonnets 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"

2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004
VOLUME 2 / NUMBER 1

IN THIS ISSUE: 
ON THE HOME FRONT
  Liberty Bond Drives and Bomb Shelters
 Bob Steele Rallies the Troops
 New Britain's Wartime Production
 A Merchant -Soldier in the
Revolutionary War
 Soldiers' Letters Home

On the cover:
Lois Blomstrann (left) and Arlene Orrechio learning to use gas masks during a drill in 1942. (Courtesy of Lois Blomstrann)

Contents
pg 7	Letter from the Publisher:
pg 9	Letters, etc.
pg 12	A War Contested (Sample Article)
pg 15	Civil Defense in the Cold War
pg 18	Howdy Men: Bob Steele
pg 20	"If You Don't Need It, DON'T BUY IT." (Sample Article) By Amber Degn
pg 21	"Whistling Death": The Vought Corsair. By Jack Connors
pg 22	Connecticut's Own Rosie the Riveter
pg 24	German POWs at Bradley Field
pg 27	A Sweet Reminder of Home: Arthur J. Kiely Jr.
pg 28	Manufacturing for the War Effort. (Sample Article) By Lois Blomstrann
pg 30	Parallel Lives
pg 34	Letter from a Quarantine Camp: Louis F. Middlebrook
pg 36	Witness to Gettysburg: Horatio Dana Chapman
pg 38	Fighting for Freedom: Joseph O. Cross (Sample Article)
pg 40	Andersonville Diary: Joseph Flower Jr.
pg 42	The First Independence Day: Hezekiah Hayden Patrolling Connecticut's Shoreline: Timothy Parker Amos Wadsworth, Merchant-Soldier. By Lisa Johnson
pg 44	A Memory of War in the Parlor. By Thomas Denenberg
pg 45	Soldiers' Field
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