BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2008
SPRING 2008
VOLUME 6 / NUMBER 2
IN THIS ISSUE: Down the Pike
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Scaling the White Mountains in a 1911 Columbia Motorcar
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Building a Big Ditch to Spur Connecticut’s Economy
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The Marvel of Early Balloon Flight
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Catching the Stage to Litchfield
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On the cover: The Hickmott family of Hartford embarks on a 143-mile, seven-hour drive to Marblehead Neck Massachusetts, July 1911.
| Contents
Features
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pg 18
Motoring with the Hickmotts
When automobile travel was adventure.
By Diane Pflugrad Foley and Mark H. Jones |
Pg 24
The Ill-Fated Farmington Canal
Before Boston’s Big Dig, there was Connecticut’s Big Ditch.
By Ellsworth S. Grant |
Pg 30
The Rise and Fall of Silas Brooks, Balloonist
Seeking fame and fortune as the Great American Aeronaut.
By Lawrence S. Carlton, M.D. |
Pg 36
Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach
When all roads led to Litchfield.
By Lynne Templeton Brickley |
Pg 42
Traveling Hartford-Area Turnpikes—Then, Now, or Never?
Plans for a beltway around Hartford hit a dead end.
By Frederick A. Hesketh |
| Departments |
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From the Publisher |
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Contributors to This Issue |
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Letters, etc. |
| pg 48 |
Destination:
Tracking Down Our Classic Coasters
By C.J. Hughes |
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Spotlight:
What’s Up With Stratford’s Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Plant?
By Mary M. Donohue |
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Destination:
A Short History of Connecticut Racetracks
By Allan E. Brown |
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Shoebox Archives:
Two Men in a Car: Connecticut’s Early American License Plates
By Marcy Fuller |
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Soapbox:
Preserving the Meritt Parkway
By Leigh Grant |
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Afterword: What’s on view, 5th Anniversary Celebrations, and more… |
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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”
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