BACK ISSUES- SPRING 2012 - Connecticut Explored

Spring 2012 VOLUME 10/ NUMBER 2

IN THIS ISSUE: There’s a Map for That!

SUBSCRIBE NOW ORDER ONLINE			Putting Connecticut on the Map
			Classic Food Shacks
			Abel Buell Sets a World Record
			Finding Your Way at 10,000 Feet
			Finding Your Way at 10,000 Feet

On the cover: (detail) Abel Buell, A New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Lyd dwon from the Latest Observations and the Best Authorities Agreeable to the Peace of 1783, New Haven, 1784. Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division

Features
14 Shack Attack! A photo essay about classic seasonal food shacks. By Mary M. Donohue
22 Connecticut’s Colonial Town Greens Three greens with roots. By Amy Gagnon
28 Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking CLICK HERE TO READ Who put our state on paper, and how. By Kristen N. Keegan and William F. Keegan
34 Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape CLICK HERE TO READ Was Connecticut a wilderness when Europeans arrived? By Tobias Glaza, with Paul Grant-Costa
40 Road Signs of the Air Wayfinding in the early days of aviation. By Jane F. Cullinane
Contents
pg 9	Hog River Journal: Nutmegger or Connectican?
pg 10	Letters, etc
pg 13	From the State Historian: The Map That Wasn’t a Map. CLICK HERE TO READ By Walter W. Woodward
pg 14	Shack Attack! By Mary M. Donohue
pg 20	The Two-Million-Dollar Map. By Nancy Finlay
pg 22	Connecticut’s Colonial Town Greens. By Amy Gagnon
pg 28	Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking. CLICK HERE TO READ By Kristen N. Keegan and William F. Keegan
pg 34	Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape. CLICK HERE TO READ By Tobias Glaza, with Paul Grant-Costa
pg 40	Road Signs of the Air. By Jane F. Cullinane
pg 46	Surveying Connecticut’s Borders. By Robert Baron
pg 48	Site Lines: Mapping Rochambeau’s March Across Connecticut. By Robert Selig
pg 50	Connecticut Center for the Book: Letters About Literature. By Marian Amodeo
pg 51	Hartford History Center: Lincoln, “On The Map” In Hartford. By Gary E. Wait
pg 52	Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
pg 57	Afterword