Sample articles from past issues: FALL 2005 • The "Conference" State • Glimpses of Lincoln's Brilliance • Stamping Out the Reds SUMMER 2005 • Making Their Presence Known • What's a Puritan? • Enfield's Shaker Legacy • Faith Congregational Church 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"

WINTER 2005/2006
VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE:
     BUILT IT/ RAZED IT II

  Hartford Neighborhoods Then & Now
 Entire Farming Community Vanishes
 Old Lyme Gal Gets a Makeover
 Can Sam Colt Win Over the Park Service?

On the cover:
Inset post card: The Prior family at home on North Beacon Street in Hartford, 1906. Collection of Tomas J. Nenortas
Background photo: The Stavinskys in front of the same home today.
Photo: Karen O'Maxfield

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher:
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 14	Hartford: Then and Now. By Nancy O. Albert, Tomas Nenortas, and Karen O'Maxfield
pg 20	A Valley Flooded to Slake the Capital Region's Thirst. By Kevin Murphy
pg 26	40 and Fabulous: The National Historic Preservation Act. By Mary M. Donohue
pg 30	Making a Success of Coltsville. By William Hosley
pg 36	The Spirit of Miss Florence Restored. By Liz Farrow
pg 42	re: Collections A Litchfield church, jilted at the altar, stages a comeback. By Rachel D. Carley
pg 43	Destinations The spotlight shines brightly on two vintage theaters. By Gina Bacchiocchi
pg 46	Soapbox Archives In a Neighborhood, A Boy's World. By Walter E. Smith Noah Webster Slept Here. So Did I. By Fredrick W. Hamilton
pg 50	Soapbox We've Got the Public Act. Now the Hard Work Begins. By Helen Higgins
pg 52	Afterword Historic holiday events not to be missed, Heroism in History conference, and more...

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