Sample articles from past issues: SPRING 2005 • The Horseless Era Arrives • Creative License, or Fundamental Fact? • The Sky's the Limit • A Century of Connecticut Inventions 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"

SUMMER 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
     A Matter of Faith

  Enfield's Shaking Quakers
 What's a Puritan, Anyway?
 Jews Make Their Mark in Hartford
 Church Silver: Sell or Save?

On the cover:
Shaker Eldress Miriam Offord (left) with unidentified woman in Enfield, CT, c. 1910.

Contents
pg 7	From the Publisher:
pg 8	Letters, etc.
pg 12	Making Their Presence Known. By Marsha Lotstein. Photos selected by Nancy O. Albert
pg 20	What's a Puritan, & Why Didn't They Stay in Massachusetts? By Walter Woodward
pg 24	Enfield's Shaker Legacy. By Mike Miller
pg 30	Hartford Seminary's Muslim Mission. By Alexis Rankin Popik
pg 34	re: Collections From Talcott to Main Street: Hartford's First African-American Church. By Tamara Verrett
pg 36	Shoebox Archives Architect John McMahon's plans for an "American Perpendicular" Catholic church. By Joseph P. McMahon
pg 38	Destinations Charter Oak Cultural Center. By Scott L. Wands Cedar Hill Cemetery. By Irene McHugh
pg 42	Soapbox A Farmington church sells its inheritance. By Bill Hosley
pg 44	Soapbox Archives Papers provide peek inside a New England Congregational meeting house.
pg 45	Afterword Three must-see exhibitions, celebrating Nathan Hale's 50th birthday, and what's new on view at The Mark Twain House.
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