BACK ISSUES - SUMMER 2006 - Connecticut Explored

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: Stories of Great Escapes & Landscapes By Elizabeth J. Normen
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.