BACK ISSUES – FALL 2006

Fall 2006
VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE: TURN UP THE HEAT

Arson or Accident? The Colt Armory Burns

A Traitor Sets New London Aflame

Bawdy and Brazen, Connecticut’s First Lady of Showbiz

The Great Quake Singes Hartford’s Insurers

A Blast from the Past in Kent

On the cover:

Abigal Hinman watches Benedict Arnold’s forces set fire to New London (detail).
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut.

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher: Fire! A Threat and a Resource By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 14	Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas. By Mary M. Donohue
pg 20	Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London. By Edward Baker
pg 26	“A great outcry for bed clothes”: Quilts to Warm Body and Soul. By Dawn C. Adiletta
pg 32	The Suspicious Colt Armory Fire. By Herbert G. Houze
pg 38	The Great San Francisco Earthquake. By Lisa Guernsey
pg 44	Re: Collections The Kent Iron Furnace. By Karin Peterson
pg 46	Shoebox Archives Memories of the Hartford Circus Fire. By Janice Mathews
pg 49	Destination The Connecticut Fire Museum in East Windsor By Clarissa J. Ceglio
pg 50	Soapbox A burning passion for uncovering Connecticut’s complicity in slavery. By Anne Farrow
pg 52	Afterword What’s new on the Connecticut history bookshelf and more.