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By Matt Boucher on February 19, 2012 Back Issues

Winter 2011/2012 VOLUME 10/ NUMBER 1

IN THIS ISSUE: Connecticans Abroad

SUBSCRIBE NOW ORDER ONLINE			Selling Our Products Abroad
			Sailing Round the World in Style
			Discovering a New Continent
			The Undoing of Silas Deane
			The Undoing of Silas Deane

On the Cover: Trade card (detail), Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., Bridgeport, c 1890. Museum of Connecticut History

Features
14 Selling Connecticut Products Abroad. Our photo essay goes global By David Corrigan and Briann Greenfield
20 Ebenezer Bassett’s Historic Journey Our first black diplomat serves the first black republic. By Carolyn B. Ivanoff with Mary J. Mycek and Marian K. O’Keefe
25 A Connecticut Feminist Prophet Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes her way in the world. By Mary Ellen Ellsworth
30 The Making of a Humanitarian Fredrick Walcott responds to Poland’s plight. By Mark H. Jones
Contents
pg 9	Hog River Journal
pg 10	Letters, etc
g 13	From the State Historian: Discovering the Explorer Hiram Bingham III By Walter W. Woodward
pg 14	Selling Connecticut Products Abroad. By David Corrigan and Briann Greenfield
pg 20	Ebenezer Bassett’s Historic Journey By Carolyn B. Ivanoff with Mary J. Mycek and Marian K. O’Keefe
pg 25	A Connecticut Feminist Prophet By Mary Ellen Ellsworth
pg 30	The Making of a Humanitarian By Mark H. Jones
pg 35	A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors By Kristin Peterson Havill
pg 39	The Slaters Go Round the World By Vivian Zoe
pg 45	Hartford History Center: Letters Home to the Children of Hartford By Allyson Smally
pg 46	Destination:The Discoverer of Antarctica By Jesse Duthrie
pg 48	Site Lines: Silas Deane By Linda Pagliuco
pg 50	From the Desk of Stuart Parnes, Connecticut Humanities Council
pg 51	Spotlight: Events & news from partner organizations
pg 56	Afterword

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Frequent contributor Dave Corrigan is giving a new WWI lecture tonight at the Noah Webster House-see you there!Did you know that the Hayes-Velhage American Legion is named partly after Waldo Clayton Hayes? Hayes was the son of William E. Hayes, who moved the family to West Hartford around 1906. The Hayes family lived in the house that still stands today at 1130 Farmington Ave. in West Hartford. The home, built in 1899, is considered a "workingman's cottage." William worked as a farmer, the foreman of an ice company, and later a lumber salesman.

Waldo Clayton Hayes is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census as a 14 year old, the third of four sons. He would have been educated in West Hartford schools, before enlisting as a young man in Troop L, Third Separate Squadron, Connecticut Calvary, in April 1917. Troop L was made up mainly of men from the Hartford area and by the end of August 1917, this group of cavalry men had been transferred to the 101st Machine Gun Battalion in the 26th Division. Thus, Waldo entered the war as a horseshoer in the cavalry but served as a mechanic a month later in the 101st Machine Gun Battalion.

In October 1918, the 101st participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the northeast section of France. The goal was to to gain possession of a ridge running from Bois d'Etrayes to Belleu Wood, which was an important point on the Heights of the Meuse. Whoever held this site controlled the low ground beyond. The soldiers who participated in this offensive suffered a constant barrage of artillery. They spent 10 days in shallow trenches with continuous shell fire by day and and gas attacks by night. The Battalion's echelon brought food and supplies to the trenches every night, under heavy shell fire.

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