WINTER 2008/2009
VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: Rascals, Reprobates & Reformers 

	Litchfield’s Temperance Movement
	Boss Tweed’s Greenwich Connection
	Skirting Prohibition in East Haven
	The Colorful History of Connecticut’s Blue Laws
	A Life of Petty Crime in Early 19th-Century Connecticut

On the cover: Images courtesy of the Litchfield Historical Society, American Antiquarian Society, Wesleyan University, Connecticut State Library, Museum of Connecticut History, Klingberg Family Centers, and Charlene Masset and Charles Talmadge III.  For full attribution see images inside.

• Tickling the Ivories in Ivoryton
  
  
• Two Underappreciated Connecticut Composers
  
  
• Blowin’ Out the Speakers at Toad’s

SPRING /2008

• The Rise and Fall of Silas Brooks, Balloonist
  
  
• Destination: A Short History of Connecticut’s Racetracks
  
  
• Destination: Tracking Down Our Classic Roller Coasters

WINTER 2007/2008

• The Legend of The Charter Oak

• Nutmeg Adds Spice. But is it Nice?

• Weston Meteorite

FALL 2007

• The Fuller Brush Company

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

• The Bright Lights of Willimantic

SUMMER 2007

• "Cast down on every side": The Ill-Fated Campaign to Found an “ African College” in New Haven

• Educated in One Room

• West of Eden: Ohio Land Speculation Benefits Connecticut Public Schools

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

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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

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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

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"