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Sample articles from past issues:

SUMMER 2007

SPRING 2007

Ninety Days that Sickened Connecticut

Doctoring on the Field of Battle

James Pharmacy

WINTER 2006/2007

Federal Art Project in New Haven

Norwich's Renaissance Man

Impressions of the Impressionists

FALL 2006

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London

The Kent Iron Furnace

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 2007
VOLUME 5 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE:  WE MADE IT!

Rivaling Currier & Ives: The Kellog Brothers

Everyman's Time: The Rise and Fall of Connecticut Clockmaking

Borden Revolutionizes the Milk Business

The Brass City Manufactures for Victory

On the cover:

Contents
pg 9 From the Publisher.
pg 10 Letters, etc.
pg 14 Rivaling Currier & Ives: The Kellog Brothers
By Nancy Finlay
pg 20 Everyman's Time: The Rise and Fall of Connecticut's Clockmaking
By Donald Muller
pg 26 Borden Revolutionizes the Milk Business
By Charles Zanor
pg 32 The Brass City Manufactures for Victory
By Raechel Guest
pg 40 The Bright Lights of Willimantic
By Tom Beardsley
pg 44 re: Collections
Classic Hitchcock furniture returns to Unionville
By Anne Guernsey
pg 46 Shoebox Archives
Patents reveal genuis behind Fuller Brush Company

By Vincent Michael Valvo

pg 48 Destinations
The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Museum.
By John A. Pawloski
pg 50 Soapbox
Reports of Manufacturing's Death and Greatly Exaggerated.
By Peter Giola
pg 52 Afterword
What's on view, what's in a name, and how to get a tour of the Hog River

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