Maude was prominent in community affairs – she hosted husking bees and barn dances, D.A.R. meetings and picnics, country fairs, and old-time musicals on Longue Vue. She pushed to preserve the building of the Noah Webster Library and keep the name. She organized the West Hartford Council ...
Hartford Baking Company, which opened its first location in West Hartford, has announced plans to open a new 3,000 square foot location in South Windsor. This will be the fourth retail location, and will be opening in the spring of 2024 at 150 Sullivan Ave., South Windsor. The new locati...
The primary source for the above text is a reprint published in the July 12, 1831 issue of the Hartford Connecticut Courant. The Oct. 10, 1832 issue of the Boston Recorder provides a shorter version of the same text. The Lockport Balance article was combined with another current report on ...
• Finding of Fact: On May 9, the press announced that General Harney had been reinstated as Commander of the Department of the West, and would be returning, possibly as early as May 11. The secessionist MISSOURI STATE JOURNAL reported the news with pleasure. Note: Lyon’s occupation of ...
Connecticut: Mark Twain House, Hartford American satirist Samuel Clemens—better known as Mark Twain—commissioned Edward Tuckerman Potter to design hisAmerican High Gothic homein 1873. A masterpiece of the aesthetic movement, the interior surfaces of the home were decorated by Louis Comfort Tiffany....
which was produced and written by Benton Boggs. He later lived in Hartford, Conn., where he worked for Capitol Records in the record promotion department. He retired from Capitol Records in 1991 after 41 years. Music producer Stephen Sossin writes, “I can tell you that he is considered ...
Maine craft artistLaurie Babineaulives in rural Hartford, Maine, and has been creating and selling fine crafts and art for years. The past four years, under the name Wood B. Designs, she regularly attended at least a dozen events, mostly in the summer. ...