Sample articles from past issues: 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 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"

FEB/MAR/APRIL 2004
VOLUME 2 / NUMBER 2

IN THIS ISSUE: 
 AN APPLE A DAY
  A Home for Throwaways
 Preventing the Dreaded Smallpox
 Rehab of Tramps and Drunkards
 The Curative Power of a Cold Shower

On the cover:
An excerpt from the Hippocratic Oath, one of the oldest binding documents in history. Written in antiquity, most graduating medical-school students swear to a modernized version.

Contents
pg 7	Letter from the Publisher:
pg 8	Letters, etc.
pg 11	Had Too Much. By Scott L. Wands.
pg 20	The Home for "Incurables." By Barbara Donahue
pg 26	"Wash and Be Healed." By Dawn C. Adiletta
pg 32	Hospital Rock. By Charles Leach, M.D. (Sample Article)
pg 38	Shoebox Archives President-elect Taft put his best foot forward.
pg 40	re: Collections A well-stocked saddlebag for the doctor on horseback. (Sample Article) By H. David Crombie, M.D.
pg 42	Destination: Institute of Living From pastoral surroundings to electroshock therapy, a permanent exhibit explores the history of mental healthcare. By Cynthia Cormier
pg 44	Afterword The Emancipation Proclamation comes to Hartford, Prudence Crandall Museum update, and more.
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