BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2003

SPRING 2003
VOLUME 1 / NUMBER 3
IN THIS ISSUE: PASTIMES

Our Favorite Silver Screens
Hartford Plays in the Majors
A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mike Peters Has the Last Word

Contents

On the cover:
Boys relax on a seesaw while girls play croquet at a vacation school.
See story on pg. 32.

pg 7	Letter from the Publisher: Pastimes and Baseball Memories. By Elizabeth Normen
pg 9	Letters, etc.
pg 12	Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces by Suzanne Mittica, photos selected by Nancy O. Albert
pg 20	Noah Webster: A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy By Vivian Zoe
pg 26	The Hartford Dark Blues by David Arcidiacono
pg 32	Off the Streets & Into the Parks by Peter Baldwin
pg 40	re: collections: The Columbia Woman’s Safety Bicycle Fun of the two-wheeled sort. By Richard C. Malley
pg 42	Shoebox Archives: Cricket Comes to Hartford Jerine Thompson once ruled Hartford’s Keney Park cricket pitch. By Stan Walker
pg 43	Destination: Wickham Park The former estate of a window-envelope heir is now an unexpectedly exotic destination. By Maureen Welch
pg 44	Soapbox: Going to Bat for Hartford Former Mayor Mike Peters steps up to the plate.