BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2009

SPRING 2009 VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 2 IN THIS ISSUE: Maritime Connecticut By Sea, the British Torch Fairfield Keeping Bridgeport’s Lighthouse Lit    Thimble Island Tales Steamers Revolutionize Travel on Long Island Sound A Pequot Navigates a Life at Sea On the cover: The Fayerweather Lighthouse.  Photo:  Jeremy D’Entremont Contents pg 16 Full Steam Ahead! A photo essay about how Long Island Sound fostered the Age of Steam. By Brenda Milkofsky Pg 22 New London’s Indian Mariners Tracking Connecticut’s Native-American maritime past. By Jason R. Mancini Pg 28 At Home with the Inuit Whaling Captain George Comer’s surprising life inside the Arctic Circle. By Fred Calabretta Pg 36 Five Connecticuts Defend Our Nation A quick cruise through Nutmeg naval history. By Mark Albertson Pg 44 The New London Jibboom Club “What a Club! What a Time” it was for mariners in port. By William N. Peterson pg  50 Cruising the Thimble Islands The colorful lore of Branford’s archipelago. By Alana Joli Abbott Departments pg 11 From the Publisher pg 12 Contributors to This Issue pg 14 Letters, etc. pg 26 re: Collections An Autobiography in Scrimshaw. By Richard C. Malley pg 27 re: Collections: Boring Made Easy. By David J. Corrigan pg 34 Destination Kate Moore, Keeper of the Fayerweather Lighthouse. By Mary K. Witkowski pg 42 Destination: Revolutionary War — Fairfield Set Ablaze. By Adrienne E. Saint-Pierre and Walter D. Matis pg 56 Julia Fish Gates: The Life of a Sea Captain’s Wife “The Sooner Home the Better.” By R. Bayreuther Donohue pg 57 Soapbox Sites Underwater Worth Preserving, Too. By Nicholas F. Bellantoni and David A. Poirier pg 59 Afterword

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