BACK ISSUES – WINTER 2003

Subscribe Now! Order back issues… WINTER  2003 VOLUME 1 / NUMBER 2 IN THIS ISSUE:  BUILT IT / RAZED IT     Front Street’s Saloons  Historic Modern Architecture?  The Anatomy of a 221-Year-Old House  Rise & Fall of Public Housing  A Mantel with Mileage Contents On the cover: Boys line up in the street, c. 1906. Hartford’s East Side, a densely populated working-class immigrant neighborhood, housed nearly half of the city’s saloons. pg 7 Letter from the Publisher:Do we try hard to preserve the past? pg 9 Letters pg 12 A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing (Sample Article) pg 18 The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street (Sample Article) pg 24 1950s Office Building: Icon or White Elephant?  pg 27 The Award-Winning Wilde Building pg 31 A Building for the Completely Insured Air Age pg 34 The poor Man’s Club pg 40 re: collections: The Mark Twain House Mantel This well-traveled architecural element inspired more than a few yarns. By Patti Coogan pg 42 Shoebox Archives: Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge. (Sample Article) pg 44 Destination: The Polish National Home This Art Deco gem has been the cultural home of Polish Americans for 70 years. By David Kamienski pg 45 Soap Box: Tyler Smith has the last word as the Emhart Building, now known as CIGNA’s North Building, is slated for demolition.

SUMMER/2009

• History in a Dog-Eared Cookbook

• Oral History: What It Is & How To Do It

• The Collection of Alfred Atmore Pope at Hill-Stead Museum

 

 

SPRING/2009

• Cruising the Thimble Islands

• New London’s Indian Mariners

• Kate Moore, Keeper of Fayerweather Lighthouse

 

WINTER/2008-2009

• Making A Home for Orphans

• East Haven’s Wildest Irish Rose

• Flying the Banner for Temperance

FALL/2008

• What These Walls Have Heard!

• Charles Ives, Connecticut’s Compelling, Confounding Composer

• Ivoryton

 

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

 

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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”