BACK ISSUES – WINTER 2008/2009
WINTER 2008/2009
VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: Rascals, Reprobates & Reformers
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Litchfield’s Temperance Movement
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Boss Tweed’s Greenwich Connection
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Skirting Prohibition in East Haven
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The Colorful History of Connecticut’s Blue Laws
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A Life of Petty Crime in Early 19th-Century Connecticut
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On the cover: Images courtesy of the Litchfield Historical Society, American Antiquarian Society, Wesleyan University, Connecticut State Library, Museum of Connecticut History, Klingberg Family Centers, and Charlene Masset and Charles Talmadge III. For full attribution see images inside.
| Contents
Features
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pg 16
Making a Home for Orphans
A photo essay documenting John Klingberg’s life work.
By Briann Greenfield |
Pg 22
East Haven’s Wildest Irish Rose
Rum-runner Nellie Green stays one step ahead of the law.
By Marshall S. Berdan |
Pg 28
A Family of Reformers: The Middletown Bemans
An African-American family fights for equal opportunities in ante-bellum Middletown.
By Liz Warner |
Pg 32
Connecticut’s First—and Most Celebrated—Counterfeiter
Passing bogus bills lands William Stuart in New Gate Prison.
By Karin Peterson |
Pg 40
The Spirits of Reform
The surprising relationship between Spiritualism and reform.
By Dawn C. Adiletta |
| Departments |
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From the Publisher |
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Contributors to This Issue |
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Letters, etc. |
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Spotlight
Boss Tweed Puts Greenwich on the Map.
By Alan Owen Patterson |
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re:Collections
Flying the Banner for Temperance.
By Julie Frey |
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Spotlight
Connecticut’s Blue Laws.
By Alan Owen Patterson |
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Soapbox
Ralph Nader: Rapscallion or Redeemer?
By Janet Reynolds |
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Afterword:
Antiques Roadshow comes to Connecticut; exhibition openings and holiday events not to be missed. |
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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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