Sample articles from past issues: FEB/MAR/APR 2004 • Hospital Rock • A well-stocked saddlebag for the doctor on horseback. 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"

MAY/JUN/JUL 2004
VOLUME 2 / NUMBER 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
 ALL IN A DAY'S WORK

  Capitol Avenue's Manufacturing Might
 Children Bring Home the Bacon
 Communist Labor Activists Agitate
 Working Center Stage

SPECIAL SECTION: BUSHNELL PARK'S 150TH

On the cover:
Bird's-eye view of Hartford, 1864, showing Sharp's Rifle Manufacturing Co., the Hog River, Bushnell Park and, in the background the march of church steeples up Main Street.

Contents
pg 7	Letter from the Publisher:
pg 8	Letters, etc.
pg 12	Child Labor.   By Gene Leach and Nancy O. Albert
pg 18	Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War. (Sample Article) By Susan Pennybacker and Paul Kershaw
pg 25	The Miracle on Capital Avenue. (Sample Article) By Ellsworth S. Grant
pg 30	From Fields to Footlights.  By Christopher Baker
pg 36	re: Collections A piece of silk tells of the richly textured fabric of mill town life. (Sample Article) By Mary Dunne
pg 38	Shoebox Archives Born into slavery in Connecticut, James Mars put pen to paper and proved a prescient commentator on issues of equality, racial privilege, faith, and citizenship.  By Wm. Frank Mitchell
pg 40	Destination: Luddy/Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum. The tools and tales of the area's cigar tobacco industry. By Cynthia Cormier
pg 42	Soapbox Hartford's future prospects depend on its past as the star of the industrial age.  By Bill Hosley
pg 44	Afterword More on Connecticut's imperiled state museums, visiting vintage gardens, and Elizabeth Park's centennial.
SPECIAL SECTION Bushnell Park Celebrates 150 years
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