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By Elizabeth Normen on August 11, 2009 Back Issues

Summer 2006
VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 3
IN THIS ISSUE: GREAT ESCAPES & LANDSCAPES

One of America’s First Female Game Wardens

Historic Gardens to Visit

Escapes To & From a Colonial Prison

Old Lyme: Inspiring Artists for 100 Years

On the cover:

Enjoying Hammonasset Beach State Park, 1938.
Private Collection.

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher:
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 14	“Gosh, what’s the world coming to?” Connecticut’s First Female Game Warden. By Mark Jones with Nancy O. Albert
pg 20	“Only waiting to be painted”: The Inspirational Landscape of Old Lyme. By Joseph Newman
pg 26	Beatrix Farrand’s Connecticut Gardens. By Paula Brisco
pg 32	Escape from New-Gate Prison By Karin Peterson
pg 38	Written in Stone: How Connecticut’s Landscape Shapes our Lives By Collin Harty
pg 44	Shoebox Archives Hammonasset Beach State Park summers remembered By Terry Gellin
pg 48	Destinations Beardsley Zoo & Quassy Amusement Park. By Jacqueline Grant
pg 51	Soapbox Take a hike to discover Connecticut’s historic landscape. By Patricia Pendergast
pg 52	Afterword Special exhibitions and events to visit this summer.

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