BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2007

Subscribe Now! SPRING 2007 VOLUME 5 / NUMBER 2 IN THIS ISSUE: BITE THE BULLET  Where Soaking Up the Sun was Treatment  The Influenza Pandemic of 1918  Shrub the Source of Mom’s Cure-All  Our Second President Takes the Water Cure On the cover: Children with tuberculosis soak up sunshine and sea breezes at the Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford, c. 1940. Connecticut State Library, State Archives. Contents pg 9 From the Publisher: pg 10 Letters, etc. pg 12 Sun and Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis By Ann Harrison and Mark H. Jones pg 20 A Knack for Bonesetting. By Maureen Welch and Alicia Wayland pg 26 Witch What? Connecticut’s Wonder Shrub. By Mary M. Donohue pg 32 Ninety Days that Sickened Connecticut. By Ralph D. Arcari, Ph.D. pg 40 Living Till the Last. By Jennifer Huget pg 44 re: Collections Fortune’s Bones. By Ann Smith pg 46 Shoebox Archives Doctoring on the Field of Battle. By Janice Mathews pg 48 Destinations James Pharmacy. By Andra Chantim Stafford Springs. By Andra Chantim pg 52 Afterword What’s new on the Connecticut history bookshelf, spring flings, and more…

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”