Spring 2020
VOLUME 18/NUMBER 2
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Connecticut Explored
CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD STORY AFTER ANOTHER
IN THIS ISSUE: Historic Preservation Outside the Box > Oldest Paleoindian Site Discovered > Great Neon > Celebrating Modernist King-lui Wu > The Green Book in Connecticut > Connecticut’s Crystal Palace
ON THE COVER: Boothe Memorial Park, Stratford. photo: Mary M. Donohue. See story, page 34.
Table of Contents
9 Hog River Journal: Nothing More Connectican
By Elizabeth J. Normen
10 Letters, etc.
13 From the State Historian: Hogpen Hill Farms-–A Place to See
By Walter W. Woodward
14 Give Me a Sign!
Bright lights and faded paint tell a story.
By Mary M. Donohue
20 Slave Quarters in Bush-Holley House
By Debra Mecky
22 Eliot Noyes, Design Pioneer
Architect first, and so much more.
By Robert Gregson
28 The Reinvention of the New Haven Clock Company Factory
By Jason Bischoff-Wurstle
30 Meet Preservation Connecticut
New year, new name.
By Christopher Wigren
34 The Charms of Boothe Memorial Park
By Johnna Kaplan
36 Bridgeport’s Crystal Palace: The Bishop Arcade
By Mary M. Donohue
38 The Head and the Heart of King-lui Wu, Architect
By Robert Gregson
40 A New Life for the Merwinsville Hotel
By Alexander Dubois
42 Site Lines: Connecticut’s Green Book Sites
By Mary M. Donohue, Raechel Guest, and Laura Natusch
44 The Pine Grove Spiritualist Camp
By Elaine M. Kuzmeskus
46 12,500-Year-Old Paleoindian Site Discovered
By Sarah P. Sportman and David E. Leslie
49 CT History for Kids: Building Dams for Water and Electricity
50 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
57 Afterword