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Sample articles from past issues:

AUG/SEP/OCT 2004

The Education of Ella Grasso

Ancient Burying Ground

Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager

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"

2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE:
 ART HISTORY 101

  Wadsworth Celebrates the American Landscape
 Dotha's Tribute Turns 75
 In Step with Wallace Stevens
 A Letter from Monet's Garden

On the cover:
Thomas Cole, View of Monte Video, the seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., 1828
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Contents
pg 7 From the Publisher:
pg 8 Letters, etc.
pg 12 When Artists Owned Hartford's Streets. By Bob Gregson
pg 18 Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School.
By Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
pg 24 The Enigma of Wallace Stevens. By Christine Palm
pg 30 Dotha's Crowning Gift to Hartford. By Diana Ross McCain
pg 36 re: Collections

Portrait of a Young Man. By Nancy Finlay

pg 38 Shoebox Archives

Alfred Pope of Hill-Stead has lunch with Claude Monet.
By Polly Pasternak Huntington

pg 40 Destination

Visit the nation's first museum devoted to collecting American art, and one of the top university print collections in the United States.
New Britian Museum of American Art. By Elizabeth J. Normen
Davison Art Center. By Elizabeth J. Normen

pg 43 Afterword

Expansion at two area museums, and more...

pg 44 Soapbox

Why public art is good for Hartford. By Ken Kahn

 

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