Connecticut’s Sweet Tooth: The Sugar Trade and Slavery in the West Indies
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A “Mystic-Built” Schooner for the Centennial
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New Discoveries at Battle Site Essex
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The True Story of Captain Sluman and Sarah Gray
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Mystic Seaport’s Charles W. Morgan Sails Again
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Sites Underwater Worth Preserving, Too
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Julia Fish Gates: The Life of a Sea Captain’s Wife
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The New London Jibboom Club
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An Autobiography in Scrimshaw
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Five Connecticuts Defend our Nation
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The Three Lives of Fort Trumbull
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Justus Riley and Justice for “Patty”
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Saving Long Island Sound
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Stonington’s First Family of Lighthouse Keepers
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Connecticut River Legends
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Pleasure Boating on the Connecticut River
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Site Lines–Finding “Isabel”
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The Slaters Go Round the World
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America’s Tallest Ship
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Two If By Sea: New London’s Harbor Light & Stonington’s Old Lighthouse Museum
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Connecticut in the Golden Age of Smuggling
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Fame and Infamy for the Hulls of Derby
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Full Steam Ahead: Steamboat Travel in Connecticut
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The Portuguese in Connecticut: “They Came Here as Fishermen…”
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What a Disaster!
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Cruising the Thimble Islands
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Nellie Green: East Haven’s Wildest Irish Rose
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Electric Boat: Full Speed Into the Nuclear Age
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Round The Horn in Search of Seals and Fortune
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New London’s Indian Mariners
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Connecticut’s Naval Contributions to the Civil War
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Site Lines: Fort Decatur
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War of 1812: The Mysterious Bluelights
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War of 1812: The British Raid on Essex
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Why the Sperm Whale is our State Animal
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Our Salty and Seafaring History
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SPRING 2009 VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 2 IN THIS ISSUE: Maritime Connecticut By Sea, the…