Sample articles from past issues: SUMMER 2006 • Escape from New-Gate Prison • Written in Stone • Hammonasset Beach State Park summers SPRING 2006 • Hebrew Tillers of the Soil • The first American cookbook • What We Loved to Eat WINTER 2005/2006 • A Valley Flooded • Making a Success of Coltsville • In a Neighborhood, A Boy's World 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"

Fall 2006
VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
  TURN UP THE HEAT

  Arson of Accident?
          The Colt Armory Burns
 A Traitor Sets New London Aflame
 Bawdy and Brazen, Connecticut's
          First Lady of Showbiz
 The Great Quake Singes
          Hartford's Insurers
 A Blast from the Past in Kent

On the cover:
Abigal Hinman watches Benedict Arnold's forces set fire to New London (detail).
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut.

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher:
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 14	Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas. By Mary M. Donohue
pg 20	Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London. By Edward Baker
pg 26	"A great outcry for bed clothes": Quilts to Warm Body and Soul. By Dawn C. Adiletta
pg 32	The Suspicious Colt Armory Fire. By Herbert G. Houze
pg 38	The Great San Francisco Earthquake. By Lisa Guernsey
pg 44	Re: Collections The Kent Iron Furnace. By Karin Peterson
pg 46	Shoebox Archives Memories of the Hartford Circus Fire. By Janice Mathews
pg 49	Destination The Connecticut Fire Museum. By Clarissa J. Ceglio
pg 50	Soapbox A burning passion for uncovering Connecticut's complicity in slavery. By Anne Farrow
pg 52	Afterword What's new on the Connecticut history bookshelf and more.

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