Marking International Women’s Day, 2017
Newsgirls: Did They Need to be Saved? In the legislative session in the winter/spring of 1917, the fate of Connecticut’s newsgirls was on the table. A bill was put forth that stated that...
Monthly Archive: February 2017
Newly Digitized Historic Newspaper Tells about the Fight for African American Civil Rights in Connecticut, 1894-1904
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Gauvreau (860) 757-6525 Christinne.Gauvreau@ct.gov Contact: Robert Kinney (860) 757-6668 Robert.kinney@ct.gov Date: February 27, 2017 NEWS (HARTFORD)- Librarians digitizing the New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier...
Newtown Bee Family
The Newtown Bee, The Bee and The Newtown Chronicle Newtown, Connecticut town historian Daniel Cruson placed the birth of the Newtown Bee in 1870 within New England’s post-Civil War florescence of small rural weeklies. It was one...
And, Yes, the Cherry Tree
By Jane Cullinane In February 1913, in “That Cherry Tree,” the wit Edgar Allen Forbes took great delight in poking fun at the George Washington biographer who had crafted this morality tale more...