A Belated Earth Day Blog, 2019
Monster Solar Motor, 1901 On April 16, 1901, subscribers to the Waterbury Democrat read about a “monster solar motor” installed on an ostrich farm in Pasadena, California. The beast was reported capable of lifting...
Category: Holidays
Thanksgiving Proclamations of Our Presidents, 1916.
Check out what Connecticut residents of 1916 read about Thanksgiving Proclamations. Take a look at government and museum sites that bring this information up to date! For...
Last Minute Suggestions for a Halloween Party, 1913
Low on cash? Short on time? Don’t despair. You can pull off a Halloween party without either. Take a look at the suggestions offered to readers of the Bridgeport Evening Farmer in 1913. ...
A Spooky New England Tale from the 1894 New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier
“’Struther Kannock’s Halloween” was “No. 43” in a broader collection called Tales of Ten Travelers. The author, Edgar L. Wakeman, was a prolific journalist and story teller whose http://<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020358/1894-10-27/ed-1/seq-3/>works of travel and fiction were...
An April 2015 Earth Day Blog: A Farmer Calls for Pico Hydro in 1921
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,...
How to Throw a Halloween Party, Women’s page, Norwich Bulletin, Oct. 17, 1914
The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project just added 10,000 pages of the Norwich Bulletin to Chronicling America.