BACK ISSUES – SUMMER 2008

SUMMER 2008 VOLUME 6 / NUMBER 3 IN THIS ISSUE:  On and Off the Beaten Path Connecticut’s Most Beautiful Vistas Rediscovering the Hog River High on a Hill: Waterbury’s Peace Cross Where You Can Still Take the Trolley Miss Ferriday’s Garden On the cover: Bull’s Bridge, a classic New England covered bridge, crosses the Housatonic River in Kent. Contents Features pg 16 Classic Vistas A photo essay capturing Connecticut’s timeless scenery. Photos by Robert Benson Text by Jennifer Huget Pg 22 Taking a Ride Down the Hog River The colorful history of HRJ’s namesake waterway. By Elizabeth J. Normen Pg 28  A Pilgrimage to Waterbury Where a lighted cross stood sentinel over a miniature Holy Land. By Wayne Gannaway Pg 34 The Quarry that Built Boston and New York City Portland’s brownstone was once the building material of choice. By Doe Boyle Pg 40 Connecticut’s Historic Trails The tramping movement put three scenic trails on the map. By Christine Woodside Departments pg 11 From the Publisher  pg 12 Contributors to This Issue pg 14 Letters, etc. pg 46 Destination: Weir Farm National Historic Site. By Christopher Gezon The Shoreline Trolley Museum. By Michael Schreiber Bartlett’s Tower. By Brenda J. Miller The Lyman Viaduct. By Janice Mathews The Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden. By Kristin P. Havill pg 52 Shoebox Archives: Reflections on a Connecticut Landscape By Odell Shepard, with introduction by Rick Sowash pg 53 Soapbox: No Child Left Inside By Gina McCarthy pg 54 Afterword: Wrapping up the 5th anniversary celebration and events not to be missed this summer.

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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”