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SUMMER 2007
VOLUME 5 / NUMBER 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
  THE THREE Rs

 One-Room Schoolhouses to Love
 New Haven Almost the Site of the Nation's First Black College
 Mark Twain's Home-schooled Daughters
 China's Brightest Educated in 19th-Century Connecticut

On the cover:
The Carter Street School in New Canaan, c. 1910-15. [Color enhanced by HRJ].
New Canaan Historical Society

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher
pg 10	Letters, etc
pg 12	Educated in One Room By Clarissa J. Ceglio, Janice Mathews, and Elizabeth Normen
pg 20	West of Eden: Ohio Land Speculation Benefits Connecticut Public Schools By Larry Bloom
pg 26	Hartford's First Lady of the Library By Susan Bivin Aller
pg 32	"Cast down on every side": The Ill-Fated Campaign to Found an "African College" in New Haven By Hilary Moss
pg 38	Piece by Piece: Stitching Together the History of Litchfield's Female Academy By Lynne Templeton Brickley
pg 44	re: Collections Homeschooling the Clemens Way By Jennifer Huget
pg 46	Spotlight America's First Professional Cooking School By Susan Chandler
pg 48	Shoebox Archives Chinese Exchange Students in 1880s Connecticut By Michelle Wong
pg 50	Soapbox Helping Connecticut Teachers Build Bridges By Elizabeth Rose
pg 52	Afterword Heritage sites open house, new books to browse, and more...

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