VOL. 20/NO. 3/ Summer 2022
CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD STORY AFTER ANOTHER
IN THIS ISSUE: > An Outsider’s View > George Washington Tours the State > Southern Writer Skewers Twain’s Circle > Fuller Brings the Dymaxion to Bridgeport > Out of Saarinen’s Shadow in Hamden > The Robesons Choose Enfield > Look, It’s the Hindenburg!
On the cover: top: “Dymaxion Car #2,” National Automobile Museum, Reno, see page 44; bottom left: detail, The Hindenburg, Bridgeport History Center, see page 26; bottom right: The IBM Pavilion, 1964 World’s Fair, © Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, see page 28.
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CONTENTS
pg 9 Hog River Journal: Passing Through, Putting Down Roots
By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 10 Letters, etc.
pg 13 From the State Historian: The U.S. National Park Service’s Founder, Director, and Champion
By Walter W. Woodward
pg 14 Photographing Wartime Connecticut
Jack Delano, Gordon Parks, & Marion Post cover the state.
By Mary M. Donohue & Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 20 A Southern View of Twain’s Hartford
Oh, the tales a writer can tell.
By Miki Pfeffer
pg 26 The Hindenburg Flies Over Bridgeport
By Carolyn Ivanoff
pg 28 Architect Kevin Roche, Shaping Environments
Big design ideas get their start in Hamden.
By Robert Gregson
pg 34 The West Indian Social Club, A Home Away From Home
The pulse of Hartford’s Caribbean community.
By Fiona Vernal
pg 38 Frederick Douglass in New London
By Thomas Schuch
pg 40 George Washington in Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 44 Buckminster Fuller, Bridgeport, and the Car of Tomorrow
By Charlie McMahon
pg 46 Site Lines: The Robesons Move to Enfield
By Steve Thornton
pg 50 John Henry Twachtman Adopts Greenwich
By Maggie Dimock
pg 52 CT History for Kids: The First Immigrants, the English
pg 53 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations