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Fall 2010 VOLUME 8 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE: Celebrate Connecticut’s 375th Anniversary

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  A Hot Dog for the First Lady
 

Is Connecticut 375 Years Old?
  Waterbury’s Newspaper Family
  Merchants, Patriots, Governors
   

 
 

On the cover: Get your 375th anniversary commemorative mug at www.ct375.com.

Contents Features
pg 12
Frankies Hot Dogs.
By Frank Purcaro
pg 16
Celebrating Connecticut’s Founding.
By Walter Woodward
page 26
In Search of the Great Find!
By Briann Greenfield
pg 38
The Trumbull Dynasty.
By Elizabeth Pratt Fox and Alicia Wayland
Departments
pg 9

Hog River Journal
pg 10

Letters, etc.
pg 12 Frankies Hot Dogs.  By Frank Purcaro
pg 16 Celebrating Connecticut’s Founding. By Walter Woodward
pg 22 Shoebox Archives: Three Generations in the Newspaper Business. By Michael C. Dooling
pg 24 re: collections: Turning: Wheels, Reels, and Flutes.  By Julie Frey
pg 26 In Search of the Great Find!   By Briann Greenfield

pg 32

 Shoebox Archives: The Danbury Square Box Company.  By Diane Hassan
pg 34 Little House in Connecticut.  By Christine Woodside
pg 36 Destination: George Godard Gets His Building.  By Kendall F. Wiggin
pg 38 The Trumbull Dynasty. By Elizabeth Pratt Fox and Alicia Wayland
pg 44 Get What You Need at Pfau’s.  By Nena Donovan Levine
pg 45 The Quintessential Family Business. By Mel Smith
pg 46 Site Lines: Historic Main Streets Matter. By John Simone
pg 48 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
pg 52 Afterword
   

 

Sample articles from past issues:

SUMMER 2010: Exploring the Connecticut Landscape

• The Industrial Might of Connecticut Pegmitite

• Connecticut’s Mulberry Craze

• City, Country,Town: Connecticut Landmarks

SPRING 2010:  Facing Hard Times

• Connecticut in the Golden Age of Smuggling

• Peter Paul’s Path to Sweet Success

• Pulling Together:  At War

WINTER 2009/2010:  Moderns

• Connecticut’s Star Turn in Film

• Modern in Manchester

FALL/2009:  Play Ball!

• Girls Can Play, Too!: Women’s Basketball in Connecticut

• The Meriden Buzz Saw

• Destination: The Nation’s Oldest High-School Football Rivalry

 

SUMMER/2009

• History in a Dog-Eared Cookbook

• Oral History: What It Is & How To Do It

• The Collection of Alfred Atmore Pope at Hill-Stead Museum

 

SPRING/2009

• Cruising the Thimble Islands

• New London’s Indian Mariners

• Kate Moore, Keeper of Fayerweather Lighthouse

WINTER/2008-2009

• Making A Home for Orphans

• East Haven’s Wildest Irish Rose

• Flying the Banner for Temperance

FALL/2008

• What These Walls Have Heard!

• Charles Ives, Connecticut’s Compelling, Confounding Composer

• Ivoryton

SUMMER /2008

• Taking a Ride Down the Hog River–Reprint in PDF form available online!

• Quarry that Built Boston and New York City

• Weir Farm

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

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”