BACK ISSUES – SUMMER 2006

Subscribe Now! Summer 2006 VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 3 IN THIS ISSUE: GREAT ESCAPES & LANDSCAPES   America’s First Female Game Warden  Historic Gardens to Visit  Escapes To & From a Colonial Prison  Old Lyme: Inspiring Artists for 100 Years On the cover: Enjoying Hammonasset Beach State Park, 1938. Private Collection. Contents pg 9 From the Publisher: pg 10 Letters, etc. pg 14 “Gosh, what’s the world coming to?” America’s First Female Game Warden. By Mark Jones with Nacy O. Albert pg 20 “Only waiting to be painted”: The Inspirational Landscape of Old Lyme. By Joseph Newman pg 26 Beatrix Farrand’s Connecticut Gardens. By Paula Brisco pg 32 Escape from New-Gate Prison By Karin Peterson pg 38 Written in Stone: How Connecticut’s Landscape Shapes our Lives By Collin Harty pg 44 Shoebox Archives Hammonasset Beach State Park summers remembered By Terry Gellin pg 48 Destinations Beardsley Zoo & Quassy Amusement Park. By Jacqueline Grant pg 51 Soapbox Take a hike to discover Connecticut’s historic landscape. By Patricia Pendergast pg 52 Afterword Special exhibitions and events to visit this summer.

 

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”