Summer 2018
VOLUME 16/NUMBER 3
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Connecticut Explored
CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD STORY AFTER ANOTHER
IN THIS ISSUE: Escaping the Summer Heat> A Closer Look at Walter Camp > Crossing the Color Line on the Links and the Diamond> The Pleasure of Boating on the Connecticut River>
Off to the Races at Charter Oak Park
ON THE COVER: Yachting magazine, January 1933. Connecticut River Museum. See story, page 44.
Table of Contents
9 Hog River Journal: Sports Give Connecticut a National Profile
By Elizabeth J. Normen
10 CT Humanities
12 Letters, etc.
13 From the State Historian: History Day Needs You Now
By Walter W. Woodward
14 The Connecticut Catskills
By Mary M. Donohue
20 Walter Camp, the Father of American Football
By Warren Goldstein
26 The Old Connecticut Game of Wicket
By Alexander Dubois
28 African American Greats in Connecticut Baseball
By Stephen Thornton
34 Site Lines: Golf at Hill-Stead
By Melanie Bourbeau with Tracey Angels and Anthony Pioppi
36 The Midway Golf Club
By Jeffrey Mainville
40 Snappy Style from Beacon Falls: The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company
By David Corrigan
42 Racing at Charter Oak Park
By Eugene Leach
44 The Rise of Pleasure Boating on the Connecticut River
By Brenda Milkofsky
48 Almada Lodge and Channel 3 Kids Camp
By Kevin Flood
52 Spotlight
59 Afterword