FALL 2002
VOLUME 1 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: A SENSE OF PLACE The Hog River Rediscovered
 Family Photo, Public History
 Hill-Stead at 100
 The Tobacco Valley
Mayor Perez Has the Last Word
PREMIERE ISSUE
Contents
On the cover:
Park River Freshet, May 5, 1893. Webster Seventh defines freshet as “a great rise or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy
rains or melted snow.” This happened with some regularity during the 19th and 20th century. Advertising signs such as these for an
Asylum Street clothier were commonly painted on the sides of brick
buildings. The faded ghosts of some of these signs can still be
seen around the city. From Hartford Collection at The Hartford Public
Library. See story on page 10.
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Letter from the Publisher:
In which we answer, “Just what is the Hog River Journal?” |
| pg 10 |
A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History
(Sample Article) |
| pg 16 |
Governor Greets College Girl:
A Hartford Photograph in Narrative Transition |
| pg 20 |
Hill-Stead: A Colonial Revival Performance |
| pg 26 |
Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut
(Sample Article) |
| pg 32 |
re:
Collections:
A “Tomitude” (Sample Article)
Dawn C. Adiletta of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center shows us
that product merchandising was big business more than 100 years
before Walt Disney and Harry Potter. |
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Shoebox Archives:
Eyewitness account of the Flood of ‘36. |
| pg 36 |
Destination:
Cheney Hall
A music hall for silk mill workers returns to its roots. |
| pg 37 |
Soap Box:
May Eddie A. Perez has the last word. |
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• Oral History: What It Is & How To Do It
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WINTER 2007/2008
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FALL 2007
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WINTER 2006/2007
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FALL 2006
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• The Kent Iron Furnace
SUMMER 2006
• Escape from New-Gate Prison
• Written in Stone
• Hammonasset Beach State Park Summers
SPRING 2006
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WINTER 2005/2006
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FALL 2005
• The “Conference” State
• Glimpses of Lincoln’s Brilliance
• Stamping Out the Reds
SUMMER 2005
• Making Their Presence Known
• What’s a Puritan?
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• The Horseless Era Arrives
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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
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• A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life
FEB/MAR/APR 2004
• Hospital Rock
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2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004
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• Manufacturing for the War Effort
• Fighting for Freedom
SUMMER 2003
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• 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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