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BACK ISSUES – FALL 2002

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FALL  2002
VOLUME 1 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: A SENSE OF PLACE
 The Hog River Rediscovered
 Family Photo, Public History
 Hill-Stead at 100
 The Tobacco Valley
 Mayor Perez Has the Last WordPREMIERE ISSUE

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On the cover:
Park River Freshet, May 5, 1893. Webster Seventh defines freshet as “a great rise or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow.” This happened with some regularity during the 19th and 20th century. Advertising signs such as these for an Asylum Street clothier were commonly painted on the sides of brick buildings. The faded ghosts of some of these signs can still be seen around the city. From Hartford Collection at The Hartford Public
Library. See story on page 10.

pg  7 Letter from the Publisher:
In which we answer, “Just what is the Hog River Journal?”
pg 10 A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History
By Sandy Wheeler and Nancy O. Albert
pg 16 Governor Greets College Girl:
Hartford’s Betty Powers meets Connecticut governor Raymond Baldwin. By Wm. Frank Mitchell
pg 20 Hill-Stead: A Colonial Revival Performance
A curator-to-curator conversation between Hill-Stead Museum’s Cindy Cormier and the Wadsworth Atheneum’s Tom Denenberg
pg 26 Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut
By Ruth Glasser
pg 32 re: Collections: A “Tomitude”
Dawn C. Adiletta of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center shows us
that product merchandising was big business more than 100 years
before Walt Disney and Harry Potter.
pg 34 Shoebox Archives:
Eyewitness account of the Flood of ’36.
pg 36 Destination:Cheney Hall
A music hall for silk mill workers returns to its roots.
pg 37 Soap Box: Mayor Eddie A. Perez has the last word.

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