BACK ISSUES – SUMMER 2009
SUMMER 2009
VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 3
IN THIS ISSUE: Ages & Stages
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Would the Founding Fathers Recognize Today’s American Dream?
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Photographer Walter Wick Finds a Riddle in the Hartford Collection |
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Smithsonian Curator on Evolving Attitudes About Aging
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A Vintage Edition of The Joy of Cooking Links Generations
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An 18th-Century View of the Stages of Life
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On the cover: Detail, “The Life & Age of Man,” lithograph by Kellogg and Comstock, Hartford, 1859. The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford
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Contents
Features
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pg 12 The Aging of the American Dream.
By Eugene Leach
Four Modern Perspectives on the American Dream.
By Catherine Blinder |
pg 21
To Work or To School?
By Gregg Mangan |
Pg 27
Can You See What I See? It’s Stories That Surround Me! Photo by Walter Wick.
Introduction by Brenda J. Miller |
pg 32
The Evolution of Aging.
By Katherine Ott |
Pg 38
Oral History: What It Is and How To Do It.
By Bruce M. Stave |
| Departments |
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From the Publisher |
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Letters, etc. |
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re: Destination…AGE.
By Brenda J. Miller |
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re: Collections
The Collection of Alfred Atmore Pope at Hill-Stead Museum.
By Cynthia Cormier |
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re: Collections
An 18th-Century View of the Stages of Life.
By Susan P. Schoelwer |
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Shoebox Archives
History in a Dog-Eared Cookbook.
By Rand Richards Cooper |
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Soapbox
Cultural Institutions Can Help Us Redefine Aging. By Diantha Dow Schull |
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Spotlight
Events & News from our partners |
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Afterword |
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Sample articles from past issues:
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
• Fighting for Freedom
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”
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