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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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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”