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Architectural historian Mary Donohue digs deep to uncover which local libraries in Connecticut were funded by robber baron, steel tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie at the beginning of the 20th century. Why did the City of New Haven turn down a generous gift of $300,000 from Carnegie in 1903 meant to build a large public library? How did communities apply for library construction grants from Carnegie and what were the requirements? What were the strings attached to accepting the money?

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While World War I raged abroad, bitter battles were being waged here at home as women sought the right to vote. The National Woman’s Party (NWP) and National American Woman’s Suffrage Association were pursuing different tactics to accomplish the same end: passage of the 19th Amendment to the federal Constitution. The latter group hoped to achieve ratification by concentrating on a state-by-state strategy. The former chose non-violent civil disobedience in a highly visible location, the nation’s capital. Connecticut women played a leading role in this struggle.
Since 1917, under the leadership of founder and president Alice Paul, the NWP had staged daily demonstrations in front of the White House to focus national attention on what suffragists argued was the duplicity of President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson, they said, spoke of freedom and self-determination in the world yet took no action in the fight for the right of women to vote back home.
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Until the 1840s, Connecticut’s population was dominated by the British. There was a smattering of other Europeans, including the Dutch, but there wasn’t much diversity. That changed dramatically in the 19th century.
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Hidden deep in the second-growth hardwood forest of Rattlesnake Mountain is an inconspicuous flat ledge of traprock. On it are carved 66 names of long-ago Farmington residents. This is Farmington ‘s “Hospital Rock,” and it marks the site of Eli Todd and Theodore Wadsworth’s smallpox inoculation hospital of the 1790s. It is a reminder of the terrible epidemics of another day, and of the efforts of local physicians to halt their spread.

In colonial New England villages like Farmington smallpox epidemics were infrequent, but the inhabitants were more susceptible than city dwellers when outbreaks did occur. A rural population would become immune as the result of infection, and another outbreak would not occur until five to 20 years later, when a critical mass of susceptibles was again present.
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In the early Republic, Connecticut’s economy was largely focused both east and south. Connecticut’s was primarily a coastal maritime economy that depended on trade with England, but Connecticut looked westward, too, and has many interesting connections to westward expansion. Here are a few.
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Give Me a Sign! Our Spring 2020 issue covers ghost signs and vintage neon from across the state! See if your favorite is included! Calling all commercial archaeologists and ghost sign hunters!
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“The ideal places for treatment of these cases are mountain tops above the cloud lines, and ocean beaches. Connecticut has no mountain tops above the cloud lines, but she has more than a hundred miles of ocean beach.”
Such was the argument made by the Connecticut State Tuberculosis Commission in a 1912 report titled “Why Connecticut Should Have a Seaside Sanatorium.”
The General Assembly first heeded the pleas of doctors to address tuberculosis on a state level in 1907. It took years of success in Europe of seaside sanitoria before Connecticut invested in the idea. Connecticut made its first appropriation toward fighting the tubercle bacillus in 1910. At the time, tuberculosis killed 252 of every 100,000 people living in the state, making it the leading killer in the state early in the century. After it came cancer and heart disease, which followed with their own specialty hospitals.
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New resource for teachers!

JOIN CTSDE WEBINAR: New Resource Supports Multiple Perspectives: Grades 5 - 8

A newly available resource designed for the State Frameworks for grade 5, but suitable for grades 5 - 8, will be presented in a live webinar on March 25, 4 - 5 p.m.

Elizabeth Normen, publisher of the 3rd-4th grade resource Where I Live: Connecticut, and retired curriculum specialist Carol Luckenbach, will discuss their newly available resource, Venture Smith’s Colonial Connecticut: A True Story of Freedom.

This book and online resource enables students to learn about Connecticut’s founding through the first person nonfiction narrative of Venture Smith, published in New London in 1798. It’s an exceptional opportunity for inquiry-base learning and for a truly rich ELA-Social Studies experience. Students who piloted it found it compelling for its depiction of colonial life, slavery, and self-emancipation in the Northern colonies.

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Distilled from the bark and twigs of the witch hazel plant or Hamamelis virginiana, a shrub distinguished only by its habit of blooming in November, witch hazel has been used for hundreds of years to treat everything from bug bites to hemorrhoids. Originally an herbal remedy brewed by New England’s Native Americans, the liquid’s never since gone out of production. Missionaries and early white settlers were said to have learned the secret of brewing the twigs to produce a rubbing lotion to treat “sprains, neuralgia, rheumatism, bruises, piles and hemorrhages,” according to 1915 Dickinson product label. Today the clear, fragrant, naturally astringent liquid is used to treat dozens of conditions and is included as an ingredient in hundreds of cosmetics and over-the-counter medications, including shaving lotion, sunburn cream, deodorant, headache remedies, hair rinses, and salves for cuts and insect bites. Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder, Avon, and Revlon are among the cosmetics firms that use Connecticut’s witch hazel. It is also found, for example, in the toothpastes and mouthwashes made by Tom’s of Maine and in pharmaceutical-grade products manufactured by the Pfizer Company.
Witch hazel’s principal producers for the past century, the E.E. Dickinson Company and its offshoots, have been located in Connecticut since Dickinson’s founding in the late 19th century.
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Check out State Historian Walt Woodward’s photo album for the latest episode of our podcast Grating the Nutmeg! So much stuff to make a meal 200 years ago!It takes chef Tom Linskey an entire week to prepare the wide variety of eighteenth-century colonial dishes he serves at his and his wife Sally Iron's semi annual benefit dinners. In this all new Grating the Nutmeg podcast, you can See, hear, and almost smell and taste the lost art of colonial cooking. gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com . ...
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Almost 90 years ago, in September 1918, an influenza pandemic that was spreading all over the world arrived in Connecticut. Following a deceptively less dramatic outbreak in the preceding spring, the pandemic raged across the state for 90 days. The virulent disease, for which there was neither a cure nor a preventative vaccine, claimed the lives of 8,500 Connecticut residents; it killed more than half a million people in the U.S. and as many as 100 million around the globe. Statistically, the 1918 influenza’s death rate ranks with that of the two major bubonic plagues of late antiquity and the Middle Ages—the plague of Justinian (550 A.D.) and the Black Death (1348-1351).
Yet the 1918 pandemic has, until recently, been accorded little public or professional recognition.
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Take a peek inside our Spring 2020 issue! Ever used a IBM Selectric typewriter or stopped for gas at a Mobil station? This was the work of CT architect and industrial designer Eliot Noyes, famed member of the Harvard Five! Read more in author Robert Gregson's feature article.
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I think Noyes lived in New Cannan with all those IBM people.
I have an ibm Selectric I’m willing to sell. Perfect condition.
I typed high school papers on an IBM Selectric! 👵🏼
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Twice a year, restoration carpenter Tom Linsky and his wife Sally Irons host a heart-cooked colonial feast in their historic 18th century Portland home, as a benefit for their favorite charities. For those events Chef Tom Linsky spends an entire week prepping, preparing, and cooking a totally hearth-cooked panoply of colonial dishes to serve for the benefits' guests. Last month (February 2020), State Historian Walt Woodward stopped in to see Tom throughout the week to learn about hearth-cooking and feasting in the colonial era. The result was a delicious and wonderfully informative encounter with hearth-cooking and colonial foodways.
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Thanks. I'll definitely listen to that episode
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