BACK ISSUES – Winter 2010/2011

Winter 2010/2011 VOLUME 9 / NUMBER 1
The Design Issue!
IN THIS ISSUE: CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD STORY AFTER ANOTHER

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How the Puritans Felt About Christmas
18th-Century Painting in Silk
Art in a Gravestone
A California Modernist in Connecticut
Connecticut’s Country Synagogues
On the cover: "The painting of Hector and Andromache" Maria Bissell, 1810
Features
12 Christmas in Connecticut
A history of Christmas in decorations.
By Elizabeth J. Normen
18 The Depression Gave Us—the Buffet Server?
How a Waterbury company and Emily Post changed American dining.
By David Corrigan
26 Painting with Needle & Thread
The first of Connecticut’s pictorial arts.
By Susan P. Schoelwer
34 Faith Amidst the Fields
Our little-known country synagogues.
By Robert Gregson & Mary M. Donohue
42 Discovering LaGardo Tackett
A master modernist ceramicist settles in New Haven.
By F. Peter Swanson, M.D.Contents
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Hog River Journal
pg 10
Letters, etc.
pg 12 Christmas in Connecticut. By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 18 The Depression Gave Us—the Buffet Server? By David Corrigan
pg 24 Saddles Fit for a Shah. By Patrick Skahill
pg 26 Painting with Needle & Thread. By Susan P. Schoelwer
pg 32 Site Lines: More than a Place to Sit. By Karin Peterson
pg 34
 Faith Amidst the Fields. By Robert Gregson & Mary M. Donohue
pg 40 Beauty in a Gravestone. By Linda Pagliuco
pg 42 Discovering LaGardo Tackett. By F. Peter Swanson, M.D.
pg 48 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
pg 52 Afterword

Sample articles from past issues:
FALL 2010: Connecticut's 375th Anniversary
SUMMER 2010: Exploring the Connecticut Landscape
SPRING 2010: Facing Hard Times
FALL/2009: Play Ball!
SUMMER/2009
SPRING/2009
• 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
SUMMER /2008
SPRING /2008
WINTER 2007/2008
• 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
• Doctoring on the Field of Battle
• James Pharmacy
WINTER 2006/2007
• Norwich's Renaissance Man
• Impressions of the Impressionists
FALL 2006
• Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London
• The Kent Iron Furnace
SPRING 2006
• The First American Cookbook
• What We Loved to Eat
WINTER 2005/2006
• Making a Success of Coltsville
• In a Neighborhood, A Boy's World
FALL 2005
• Glimpses of Lincoln's Brilliance
• Stamping Out the Reds
SUMMER 2005
• What's a Puritan?
• Enfield's Shaker Legacy
• Faith Congregational Church
SPRING 2005
• Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?
• The Sky's the Limit
• A Century of Connecticut Inventions
2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005
• The Enigma of Wallace Stevens
• Lunch with Monet
AUG/SEP/OCT 2004
• Ancient Burying Ground
• Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager
MAY/JUN/JUL 2004
• Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War
FEB/MAR/APR 2004
• A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback