By Allison Horrocks In 1915, Booker T. Washington, the so-called “Wizard of Tuskegee” gave his last public talk while on tour in Connecticut. This was not Washington’s first time in Connecticut. Over the course...
by Nancy Crevier The Newtown Bee of Newtown, Conn., is western Connecticut’s most respected and reliable source of local news. In 1880, Reuben H. Smith purchased a foundering publication known as The Bee from...
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...
It was the District Telephone Company of New Haven (later Southern New England Telephone) that established the first commercial telephone exchange in the nation in 1878. Thirty years later, the Morning Journal-Courier of...
By Frank Jonientz Are you reading this on your smartphone? Are you surfing the web while you read this? Has your phone ever started “ringing” at an inappropriate time or place? Can you find...
The arts in the United States were teetering on the brink of revolutionary change in the years just before the First World War. The traditional fine arts, based on an appreciation of the classical...