Sample articles from past issues: 2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005 • Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School • The Enigma of Wallace Stevens • Lunch with Monet 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"

SPRING 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 2
SPECIAL ISSUE:
     MADE IN CONNECTICUT

  Twain's Love Affair with Technology
 Rentschler Reaches for the Sky
 1896 Electric Cars Hit Hartford Streets
 The Silk Route Leads to Manchester

On the cover:
Top row, left to right: The Pope Mark I electric automobile, 1897; Landers, Frary & Clark's coffee percolator, c. 1914; Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's Wasp engine, c. 1926.

Middle row, left to right: Horace Wells; Mark Twain's self-pasting scrapbook; G. Snow's Match Safe patent drawing.

Bottom row, left to right: Teaching the mechanics of speech to the deaf; Ribbon loom, Cheney Brothers, 1914; Fundamental Orders, 1639.

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher:
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 14	The Mother School of Deaf Education. By Gary E. Wait
pg 20	The Horseless Era Arrives. By David Corrigan
pg 26	Creative License, or Fundamental Fact? By Walter Woodward
pg 28	Innovations in Silk. By Charles B. Fears
pg 36	Accent on an American Language. By Tracey Wilson
pg 38	Mark Twain, Inventor. By Sujata Srinivasan
pg 42	Catherine Beecher and Domestic Science. By Dawn C. Adiletta
pg 44	The Sky's the Limit. By Jack Connors
pg 48	The Discovery of Anesthesia. By William A MacDonnell, D.D.S.
pg 50	re: Collections A self-pumping shower to fit any Empire decor. By Richard C. Malley
pg 52	Resource Where a plethora of Connecticut patents are to be found. By Dean Nelson
pg 54	Destination Two museums devoted to the ingenuity of Connecticut inventors. Museum of Connecticut History. By Cynthia Cormier New Britian Industrial Museum. By Lois Blomstrann
pg 58	Soapbox Ingenuity is the hallmark of the Connecticut River Valley. By Wilson H. Faude
pg 60	Afterword Report on a symposium on the African American experience, and recently published books of local interest.
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