The images produced by the New Horizon’s flyby of Pluto can be considered as part the long history of popularizing astronomical knowledge with photographs. On November 30, 1920, the Norwich Bulletin reported on “The...
On September 30, 1916, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer reported that Mrs. Frank Yosemite, formerly Miss Edith Riggs of 200 Fox Street, had left “civilization” and moved with her Native American husband, Frank Yosemite, to...
This newspaper photo of Vera Cameron Curtis (1879-1962) appeared in the Bridgeport Evening Farmer of April 22, 1912. A Bridgeport native, Curtis was the first singer trained in America to become part of the...
On October 1, 1909, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer carried the article inserted above. Who was this Edward S. Stephens, who spoke five modern languages, read Latin and Greek, taught Black children in his home...
Pico and microhydro are hip concepts today in the field of renewable energy. Who has not dreamed about the possibility of powering the homestead through solar and small water? As this Earth Day approaches,...
On March 20, 1917, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer ran an editorial praising the remarks before the Knights of St. Patrick of the editor of the New Haven Evening Union, Alexander Troup. Troup, I am...
New stories that enrich the history of women in our state emerge as more and more issues of Connecticut’s historic newspapers are uploaded to the Chronicling America searchable database. A January 25, 1911 article...
On May 24, 1919, a date five months after the opening of the Paris Peace Conference at which the Allied victors of the First World War were meeting to set the...
Today the term “Farm to Table” might connote an expensive meal of the freshest local foods prepared by a celebrity chef. Or, it might suggest contemporary arrangements such as those involved in Community Supported...
Bridgeport Evening Farmer [LCCN: sn84022472] Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer [LCCN: sn92051227] Republican Farmer [LCCN: sn82015536] The daily Bridgeport Evening Farmer, and the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, and the weekly Republican Farmer trace...