Spring 2013 VOLUME 11/ NUMBER 2
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IN THIS ISSUE: Buildings Can Be Recycled, Too > When Mark Twain’s House Was for Rent > From Modernist Pool House to Arts Center > Traces of World War II Right Under Our Noses
> Telling a New Story at a 300-Year-Old Museum
On the cover: Hygienic Art, a nonprofit arts organization housed in a former whaling company provisioning store, New London (today) and (inset) when it was the Hygienic Restaurant, date unknown. Hygienic Art.
Table of Contents
9 Hog River Journal: Appreciate Historic Connecticut by Bike! By Elizabeth J. Normen
10 Letters, etc.
13 From the State Historian: “Sui Generous”: The Story of a Shepherd and His Flag. By Walter W. Woodward
14 Better the Second Time Around
Surprising new uses for old buildings. By Mary M. Donohue
20 The Cheney Company Housing Auction of 1937
During the Great Depression, a company sells off housing to its employees. By Mary M. Donohue
26 Saving Mark Twain’s House
How Gilded Age politics nearly destroyed Twain’s Hartford home. By Steve Courtney
32 The Legend of Dixwell, Whalley, and Goffe
Where did three of New Haven’s major thoroughfares get their names? By Christopher Pagliuco
38 Glamour and Purpose in New Haven’s Union Station By Robert W. Grzywacz
40 Adam Jackson’s Story Revealed By Cynthia Cormier
42 Quonset Huts & Nike Missile Bases: History Hidden in Plain Sight By David K. Leff
44 Preserving Dixwell in New Haven as a Model By Christopher Wigren
46 Site Lines: Gores Pavilion for the Arts in Irwin Park, New Canaan By William D. Earls
48 Soapbox: The Vibrant Communities Initiative By Brad Schide
50 From the Desk of Stuart Parnes, Connecticut Humanities
52 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
57 Afterword