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She Shoots ... She Scores!
Progress for women's equality has seldom been a slam-dunk in society, let alone in basketball, but you can celebrate and learn about the great strides made in both, by visiting the exhibit "She Shoots ... She Scores", on display at the Connecticut...Tags: Monuments and Heritage Sites, Rebecca Lobo, Connecticut Huskies, Travel, Basketball
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Tall Tree, Tall Tales
Courant Staff WriterIn the bowels of the Connecticut Historical Society on graceful Elizabeth Street, Richard C. Malley is leading a cook's tour. As assistant director of museum collections, and curator of technology, Malley knows his way around the museum's extensive...Tags: Mark Twain, Folklore and Mythology, Charles Dickens, Death, Old State House
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CIGNA, Spare Those Buildings
Editorial"An act of barbarism" is how Hartford architect Tyler Smith describes plans to destroy landmark buildings on CIGNA's campus in Bloomfield. In a persuasive Commentary article on Sunday, Mr. Smith pleads for the preservation of what he calls ``perhaps the...Tags: Mark Twain, Golf, Tourism and Leisure, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hotels and Accommodations
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Gift Exchange A Longtime Yule Tradition
The Hartford Courant'Tis the season to shop 'til thee drop. Yes, it's that time of year again. Cash registers are ringing in one of the most sacred Christian holidays of the year, the birthday of Jesus Christ. Critics have been complaining for nearly 150 years that too...Tags: Religious Festivals, Charles Dickens, Jesus Christ, New York, History
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Diarist Rose Terry Grew Into Her Craft
Courant Staff WriterRose Terry Cooke probably would have been surprised to learn that her main popularity in turn-of-the-21st-century Hartford was on The Courant's Flip Page for kids. It was in late 1999 that Flip editor Valerie Finholm got the idea of printing excerpts from...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Education, Mark Twain, Winsted, Death
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The View From Main
The Hartford CourantRebecca Taber-Conover says it happens all the time: As she leads a tour down Hartford's Main Street, people are bowled over by its history and architecture - once it is brought to their attention. "A lot of folks - and I was this way, too - you drive...Tags: Old State House, History, Tourism and Leisure, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Architecture
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What They Wore
Northeast"At night,when the streets of your town and cities are quiet, and you think they are empty, they will throng with the returning spirits who once thronged them, and that still love these places." - Seattle, Chief of the Dwamish, c. 1855. Their lives were...Tags: Jonathan Edwards, National League, New York, Babe Ruth, Connecticut
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Puritans Viewed Christmas As Corrupt Religious Ritual
The Hartford CourantThe Grinch would have come up empty- handed in Colonial Connecticut. There would have been no presents under the tree, let alone a tree to steal. Christmas was viewed by the Puritans of New England as a corrupt religious, if not a pagan, ritual and was...Tags: Religious Festivals, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Dickens, London (England), History
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Sources and Resources
Primary Sources Log of the Ships Africa, Good Hope, and the Fox, 1757-1758, unpublished manuscript, Connecticut State Library. Newspaper and document collections at the New London Colony Historical Society, the Middlesex County Historical Society, the...Tags: Middletown, New London (New London, Connecticut), History, New York, Connecticut
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Chapter One: The Plantation Next Door
The most disturbing evidence of Connecticut's long and profitable complicity in slavery lies hidden in plain sight in the town of Salem, in the fields and woods around an ice cream bar near Routes 11 and 82. There, archaeologists from Central Connecticut...Tags: Norwich, Economy, Business and Finance, Bernard Bailyn, New York, Connecticut
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Resources To Find More on Slavery In Connecticut
The Hartford CourantA listing of recommended books, films, websites and places to visit in Connecticut to learn more about the state's historical involvement with slavery. BOOKS: "Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650," by Kathleen Joan Bragdon,...Tags: PBS (tv network), Blythe Danner, Anthony Hopkins, Cornell University, Connecticut
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In Their Own Words: Excerpts
The following excerpts from documents in state libraries, archives and historical societies help illuminate facets of life in Connecticut under slavery, and during its abolition. *** From a letter written by Lizzie Goodwin to her Aunt Emma Whipple,...Tags: Norwich, Milford (New Haven, Connecticut), New York, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall
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