BACK ISSUES – WINTER 2005/2006
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WINTER 2005/2006
VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: BUILT IT/ RAZED IT II
 Hartford Neighborhoods Then & Now
Entire Farming Community Vanishes
Old Lyme Gal Gets a Makeover
Can Sam Colt Win Over the Park Service?
On the cover:
Inset post card: The Prior family at home on North Beacon Street in Hartford, 1906. Collection of Tomas J. Nenortas
Background photo: The Stavinskys in front of the same home today.
Photo: Karen O’Maxfield
| Contents |
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From the Publisher: |
| pg 10 |
Letters, etc. |
| pg 14 |
Hartford: Then and Now.
By Nancy O. Albert, Tomas Nenortas, and Karen O’Maxfield |
| pg 20 |
A Valley Flooded to Slake the Capital Region’s Thirst.
By Kevin Murphy |
| pg 26 |
40 and Fabulous: The National Historic Preservation Act.
By Mary M. Donohue |
| pg 30 |
Making a Success of Coltsville.
By William Hosley |
| pg 36 |
The Spirit of Miss Florence Restored.
By Liz Farrow |
| pg 42 |
re: Collections
A Litchfield church, jilted at the altar, stages a comeback.
By Rachel D. Carley |
| pg 43 |
Destinations
The spotlight shines brightly on two vintage theaters.
By Gina Bacchiocchi |
| pg 46 |
Soapbox Archives
In a Neighborhood, A Boy’s World.
By Walter E. SmithNoah Webster Slept Here. So Did I.
By Fredrick W. Hamilton |
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Soapbox
We’ve Got the Public Act. Now the Hard Work Begins.
By Helen Higgins |
| pg 52 |
Afterword
Historic holiday events not to be missed, Heroism in History conference, and more… |
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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”
