BACK ISSUES – FALL 2008
FALL 2008
VOLUME 6 / NUMBER
IN THIS ISSUE: And the Beat Goes On
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Tickling the Ivories in Ivoryton
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Two Underappreciated Connecticut Composers
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Blowin’ Out the Speakers at Toad’s
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70s Hitmakers The Carpenters—from Connecticut?
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A Daughter Tells How A Jazz Great Adopted The Nutmeg State
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On the cover: Images courtesy of the Museum of Connecticut History, Toad’s Place, Oral History American Music, Kaman Corporation, The Scherer Library of Musical Theatre, Melonae’ McLean, Jim McCrary, Connecticut Historical Society, Marian Anderson Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. For full attribution, please see images inside.
| Contents
Features
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pg 16
What These Walls Have Heard!
A photo essay on New Haven’s legendary Toad’s Place.
By Mary M. Donohue |
Pg 22
Charles Ives, Connecticut’s Compelling, Confounding Composer
Ahead of his time, Ives may yet find an audience.
By Libby Van Cleve |
Pg 28
Ivoryton
From East Africa to Ivoryton, piano-key manufacturing shapes a town.
By Christopher Pagliuco |
Pg 34
Connecticut’s Claim to Musical Theater Fame
Trying out in Connecticut theaters before heading to the Great White Way.
By Malcolm Johnson |
Pg 40
Marching With Henry Clay Work
The Connecticut composer who wrote the Union Victory song.
By Dean Nelson |
| Departments |
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From the Publisher |
| pg 12 |
Contributors to This Issue |
| pg 14 |
Letters, etc. |
| pg 46 |
Spotlight
The Carpenters.
By William Hosley |
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Shoebox Archives:
My Dad, Jackie McLean.
By Melonae’ McLean |
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Destination:
Marian Anderson Studio.
By Jessica Colebrook |
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Spotlight:
Ovation Guitar.
By Jennifer Huget |
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Afterword:
Noah Webster’s 250th Birthday and other events not to be missed this fall plus what’s new on the Connecticut History Bookshelf |
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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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