BACK ISSUES – WINTER 2011/2012

Winter 2011/2012 VOLUME 10/ NUMBER 1

Connecticans Abroad

IN THIS ISSUE: CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD STORY AFTER ANOTHER

Winter 2011/2012 Issue

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Selling Our Products Abroad
Sailing Round the World in Style
Discovering a New Continent
The Undoing of Silas Deane
On the Cover: Trade card (detail), Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., Bridgeport, c 1890. Museum of Connecticut History
Features
14

Selling Connecticut Products Abroad.

Our photo essay goes global

By David Corrigan and Briann Greenfield
20

Ebenezer Bassett’s Historic Journey

Our first black diplomat serves the first black republic.

By Carolyn B. Ivanoff with Mary J. Mycek and Marian K. O’Keefe
25

A Connecticut Feminist Prophet

Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes her way in the world.

By Mary Ellen Ellsworth
30

The Making of a Humanitarian

Fredrick Walcott responds to Poland's plight.

By Mark H. Jones
Contents
pg 9 Hog River Journal
pg 10 Letters, etc
g 13 From the State Historian:
Discovering the Explorer Hiram Bingham III

By Walter W. Woodward
pg 14 Selling Connecticut Products Abroad.

By David Corrigan and Briann Greenfield
pg 20 Ebenezer Bassett’s Historic Journey

By Carolyn B. Ivanoff with Mary J. Mycek and Marian K. O’Keefe
pg 25 A Connecticut Feminist Prophet

By Mary Ellen Ellsworth
pg 30 The Making of a Humanitarian

By Mark H. Jones
pg 35 A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors

By Kristin Peterson Havill
pg 39 The Slaters Go Round the World

By Vivian Zoe
pg 45 Hartford History Center: Letters Home to the Children of Hartford

By Allyson Smally
pg 46 Destination:The Discoverer of Antarctica

By Jesse Duthrie
pg 48 Site Lines: Silas Deane

By Linda Pagliuco

pg 50 From the Desk of Stuart Parnes, Connecticut Humanities Council
pg 51 Spotlight: Events & news from partner organizations
pg 56 Afterword

Sample articles from past issues:

FALL 2011:
SPRING 2011:

• Connecticut Arms the Union

FALL 2010: Connecticut's 375th Anniversary issue

• In Search of the Great Find! By Briann Greenfield

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