VOLUME 20/NUMBER 1/Winter 2021-2022
IN THIS ISSUE: In Their Own Words
An Aspiring Gold Miner > A Pequot Son > A New Woman Artist > A Fugitive from Slavery > A Self-Described Rogue > A Girl at Sea > A Patriot at War
On the cover: Connecticut postcards, 1905 to 1909. According to the New York State Library, 1905 – 1915 was the Golden Age of Postcards, when hundreds of millions were printed, bought, collected or mailed. Before 1907, only the name and address were allowed on the back so that the message had to be written on the front, as shown in these examples.
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Contents
pg 9 Hog River Journal: In Their Own Words
pg 10 Letters, etc.
pg 13 From the State Historian: Two Tales of a City
By Walter W. Woodward
pg 14 Milton Avery, “So Close to Hartford”
An artist adopts a city.
By Erin Monroe
pg 20 Rediscovering William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
Finding my family in a fugitive slave narrative.
By Regina E. Mason
pg 26 Josiah Atkins: “Ye Enemy Are Upon Us”
By Mary Christ
pg 28 Edwin Ayer: “My Adventures in Mining and Exploring”
Getting to the gold fields was half the adventure.
By Tedd Levy
pg 34 William Apes, A Son of Colchester
By Phyllip Thomas
pg 37 Agnes Watson, A Tourist’s View
By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 38 Noah Porter and the Spotted Fever Epidemic of 1808 – 1809
By Charles N. Leach
pg 40 Venture Smith: “Thanks for My Gold Rings”
By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 42 Mary Rogers Williams: “We Shall Want to Do a Lot of Rambling”
By Eve M. Kahn
pg 44 P.T. Barnum Builds a City
Dreams for developing East Bridgeport.
By Bruce E. Hawley
pg 48 Site Lines: Counterfeiter William Stuart, Hero of His Own Story
By Morgan Bengel
pg 51 CT History for Kids: Maud Maxson Writes Home
pg 52 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
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