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Sample articles from past issues:

MAY/JUN/JUL 2004

Miracle on Capital Avenue

Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War

A piece of silk tells of the richly textured fabric of mill town life.

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"

AUG/SEP/OCT 2004
VOLUME 2 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
 POLITICS & POWER

  Educating Ella Grasso
 Colonial Black Governors
 Fighting for the Keys to City Hall
 Stumping for the Party of Lincoln

On the cover:
President John F. Kennedy, Governor John Dempsey, and U.S. senatorial candidate Abraham Ribicoff on the campaign trail. Ansonia, October 17, 1962.

Contents
pg 7 From the Publisher:
pg 8 Letters, etc.
pg 12 On the Campaign Trail. By Nancy O. Albert and Mark Jones
pg 18 A Quaker Firebrand Swings An Election. By Joseph Duffy
pg 25 Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager. By Donald F. Fenton
pg 30 The Education of Ella Grasso. By Jon E. Purmont
pg 36 re: Collections

Buttons worn and torches carried for our parties' candidates.
By Marianne Curling

pg 38 Destination

Visit a monument to Hartford's colonial-era Black Governors and the spot where Connecticut earned the sobriquet "The Constitution State".

Ancient Burying Ground. By Billie M. Anthony

Old State House. By Eileen Flynn

pg 42 Soapbox

How far have we come since the riots of the late 1960s?
An interview with Butch Lewis.

pg 45 Afterword

A memorial for victims of the circus fire, an award for the Antiquarian & Landmarks Society, and where to find out more about Connecticut's political history.

 

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