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WINTER 2007/ 2008
VOLUME 6 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE:  Nutmeg Tales

The Legend of The Charter Oak

Walking the Leatherman's Trail

Witches at Stake

Where a Mastodon Once Walked

On the cover: Advertising card for the Charter Oak Lawnmowers manufactured in Hartford in the 1870's.

Contents

Features

pg 18  
Exploiting the Legend of the Charter Oak.
By David J. Corrigan
pg 26
Connecticut Catches a Falling Star.
By Marshall S. Berdan
pg 34 
Wethersfield’s Witch Trials.
By Chris Pagliuco
pg 44
“Washington Slept Here” and Other Revolutionary Tales from Connecticut’s Historic Inns. 
By Doe Boyle
Departments
pg 11 From the Publisher.
pg 14 Letters, etc.
pg 32 re: Collections: Mastodon Frenzy
By Elizabeth Collins
pg 34 Wethersfield Witch Trials
By Christopher Pagliuco
pg 40 Shoebox Archives: A Touch of Magic
By Barbara Austen
pg 43 Spotlight: Nutmeg Adds Spice. But is it Nice?
By Walter W. Woodward
pg 44 "Washington Slept Here" and Other Revolutionary Tales from Connecticut's Historic Inns
By Doe Boyle
pg 50 Destination: Following the Leatherman's Trail
By Thomas F. Howard
pg 52 Soapbox: Steward's Museum of Curiosities remains relevant.
By Joshua Blanchfield
pg53 Afterword: What's on view, what's new on the Connecticut history bookshelf, and more...

 

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Sample articles from past issues:

WINTER 2007/2008

Exploiting the Legend of the Charter Oak

Soapbox: Nutmeg Adds Spice. But is it Nice?

Connecticut Catches a Falling Star

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FALL 2007

The Fuller Brush Company

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

The Bright Lights of Willimantic

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SUMMER 2007

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SPRING 2007

Ninety Days that Sickened Connecticut

Doctoring on the Field of Battle

James Pharmacy

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WINTER 2006/2007

Federal Art Project in New Haven

Norwich's Renaissance Man

Impressions of the Impressionists

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FALL 2006

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London

The Kent Iron Furnace

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SUMMER 2006

Escape from New-Gate Prison

Written in Stone

Hammonasset Beach State Park summers

 

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SPRING 2006

Hebrew Tillers of the Soil

The first American cookbook

What We Loved to Eat

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WINTER 2005/2006

A Valley Flooded

Making a Success of Coltsville

In a Neighborhood, A Boy's World

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FALL 2005

The "Conference" State

Glimpses of Lincoln's Brilliance

Stamping Out the Reds

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SUMMER 2005

Making Their Presence Known

What's a Puritan?

Enfield's Shaker Legacy

Faith Congregational Church

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SPRING 2005

The Horseless Era Arrives

Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?

The Sky's the Limit

A Century of Connecticut Inventions

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2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005

Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School

The Enigma of Wallace Stevens

Lunch with Monet

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AUG/SEP/OCT 2004

The Education of Ella Grasso

Ancient Burying Ground

Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager

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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.

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FEB/MAR/APR 2004

Hospital Rock

A well-stocked saddlebag for the doctor on horseback.

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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

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SUMMER 2003

An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age

Audacious Alliances

Sophia Woodhouse's Grass Bonnets

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SPRING 2003

Hartford's Motion Picture Palaces

A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy

The Hartford Dark Blues

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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.

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FALL 2002

A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History

Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut

A "Tomitude"

 

 

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