CURRENT ISSUE

Spring 2012 VOLUME 10/ NUMBER 2

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

Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary

Spring 2012 Issue

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Putting Connecticut on the Map
Classic Food Shacks
Abel Buell Sets a World Record
Finding Your Way at 10,000 Feet
On the cover: (detail) Abel Buell, A New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Lyd dwon from the Latest Observations and the Best Authorities Agreeable to the Peace of 1783, New Haven, 1784. Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division
Features
14 Shack Attack!
A photo essay about classic seasonal food shacks.
By Mary M. Donohue
22 Connecticut’s Colonial Town Greens
Three greens with roots.
By Amy Gagnon
28 Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking
Who put our state on paper, and how.
By Kristen N. Keegan and William F. Keegan
34 Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape
Was Connecticut a wilderness when Europeans arrived?
By Tobias Glaza, with Paul Grant-Costa
40 Road Signs of the Air
Wayfinding in the early days of aviation.
By Jane F. Cullinane
Contents
pg 9 Hog River Journal
pg 10 Letters, etc
pg 13 From the State Historian:

The Map That Wasn’t a Map. By Walter W. Woodward
pg 14 Shack Attack!

By Mary M. Donohue
pg 20 The Two-Million-Dollar Map.

By Nancy Finlay
pg 22
Connecticut’s Colonial Town Greens.
By Amy Gagnon
pg 28 Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking.

By Kristen N. Keegan and William F. Keegan
pg 34
Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape.
By Tobias Glaza, with Paul Grant-Costa
pg 40 Road Signs of the Air.

By Jane F. Cullinane
pg 45 Hartford History Center: Letters Home to the Children of Hartford

By Allyson Smally
pg 46 Surveying Connecticut’s Borders.

By Robert Baron
pg 48 Site Lines: Mapping Rochambeau’s March Across Connecticut.

By Robert Selig
pg 50 Connecticut Center for the Book: Letters About Literature.

By Marian Amodeo
pg 51 Hartford History Center: Lincoln, “On The Map” In Hartford.

By Gary E. Wait
pg 52 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
pg 57 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