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WINTER 2008/2009

VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: Rascals, Reprobates & Reformers

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	Litchfield’s Temperance Movement
	Boss Tweed’s Greenwich Connection
	Skirting Prohibition in East Haven
	The Colorful History of Connecticut’s Blue Laws
	A Life of Petty Crime in Early 19th-Century Connecticut

On the cover: Images courtesy of the Litchfield Historical Society, American Antiquarian Society, Wesleyan University, Connecticut State Library, Museum of Connecticut History, Klingberg Family Centers, and Charlene Masset and Charles Talmadge III. For full attribution see images inside.

Contents Features
pg 16 Making a Home for Orphans A photo essay documenting John Klingberg’s life work. By Briann Greenfield
Pg 22 East Haven’s Wildest Irish Rose Rum-runner Nellie Green stays one step ahead of the law. By Marshall S. Berdan
Pg 28 A Family of Reformers: The Middletown Bemans An African-American family fights for equal opportunities in ante-bellum Middletown. By Liz Warner
Pg 32 Connecticut’s First—and Most Celebrated—Counterfeiter Passing bogus bills lands William Stuart in New Gate Prison. By Karin Peterson
Pg 40 Isabella Beecher Hooker & the Spirits of Reform The surprising relationship between spiritualism, suffragists, and reform. By Dawn C. Adiletta
Departments
pg 11	From the Publisher: Connecticut’s Rogues—and Reformers, too. By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 12	Contributors to This Issue
pg 14	Letters, etc.
pg 46	Spotlight Boss Tweed Puts Greenwich on the Map. By Alan Owen Patterson
pg 48	re:Collections Flying the Banner for Temperance. By Julie Frey
pg 50	Spotlight Connecticut’s Blue Laws. By Alan Owen Patterson
pg 52	Soapbox Ralph Nader: Rapscallion or Redeemer? By Janet Reynolds
pg 53	Afterword: Antiques Roadshow comes to Connecticut; exhibition openings and holiday events not to be missed.