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Ann Eliza Young, known popularly as the 19th wife of Brigham Young, not only divorced the Mormon prophet but stumped the country campaigning against polygamy. In her acidic memoir and critique of plural marriage, "Wife No. 19, or the Story of a Life in...Tags: History, Brigham Young, Crime, Law and Justice, Joseph Smith, Jr., Arts and Culture
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In "A Summer of Hummingbirds," scholar Christopher Benfey looks at cultural reconstruction after the Civil War
By Art Winslow
Christopher Benfey, a scholar of Emily Dickinson and Gilded Age America, would not have his book "A Summer of Hummingbirds" had Dickinson not responded to a small floral painting sent to her in 1882 by writing an eight-line poem in...Tags: Culture, Walt Whitman, Amusement and Theme Parks, Mississippi, Death
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Northwestern Connecticut
Wood Pond PressThe Litchfield Hills region of northwestern Connecticut is a rolling, forested landscape of hidden treasures. Here are historic villages and an unspoiled countryside with more state parks and public lands than any other area in Southern New England. While...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Rivers, Colleges and Universities, Adults, State Parks
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Hartford/Central Connecticut
Wood Pond PressHARTFORD Lately billed as New England's rising star, the Insurance City – Connecticut's state capital – is making a comeback from its low point in the early 1990s when people, jobs, retailers and the major-league hockey franchise left for greener...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Painting, Politics, Adults, Companies and Corporations
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Mid-Coast Maine
Wood Pond PressTo the north and east of Portland, the coastline becomes more jagged, its fingers protruding like tentacles toward the sea between inlets, rivers and bays. This is the area where the "real" Maine starts. Poke down remote byways to Bailey Island, Popham...Tags: Rivers, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, White House, Politics, Adults
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Introduction
Northeast MagazineOur state has a terrible secret, one we have concealed, even from ourselves, for hundreds of years. Connecticut was deeply involved in slavery. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of enslaved people lived here. They were nearly all of...Tags: Slavery, History, Mississippi, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Hampton (Windham, Connecticut)
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Beechers Helped Hartford Become A Literary Beacon
Courant Staff WriterBeecher was a name to reckon with in mid-19th-century America. Lyman Beecher was a nationally known preacher. On Long Island and in Litchfield, he and two wives produced 11 sons and daughters who survived to adulthood, almost all involved in major...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Slavery, Breast, New Jersey
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Hartford As The Home Of Storytellers
Courant Books EditorHartford's literary heritage began with Native Americans, whose stories were told, not written. It encompassed fiery sermons by city founder Thomas Hooker and gentler writings of Congregationalist preacher Horace Bushnell, who was read around the world....Tags: Jack Kerouac, Wallace Stevens, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Native Americans
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Charles Dudley Warner Was A Star Of His Time But Is Little Read Today
Courant Staff WriterThe shelf of Charles Dudley Warner's books stands at 15 volumes, but like many works by the triple-named writers of the Victorian era, they are largely unread today. When he lived on Hawthorn Street in Hartford, and later on Forest Street in the heart...Tags: Mark Twain, Ice Cream, California, Europe, Ulysses S. Grant
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The Hartford CourantFestivals, ice-skating shows, kick-boxing exhibitions - if it doesn't fit in a category, it's listed here. 26TH ANNUAL NAVARATRI FESTIVAL Sept. 19-22 - Four-day-long celebration of Indian culture. Directed by Wesleyan adjunct professor of music T....Tags: Politics, Hartford Stage, Adults, Burt Reynolds, Chicago Bulls
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The Gilded Age's Grandeur
COURANT STAFF WRITERIf Katharine Seymour Day and Harriet Beecher Stowe could return to Hartford, they'd find themselves as much at home as when they actually lived there. A yearlong exterior restoration of the Chamberlin-Burr Day and Harriet Beecher Stowe houses has brought...Tags: Renovation, Architecture, New York, Homes, Death
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Clean Thoughts As Certain As Spring
The Hartford CourantMy theory is that God created winter so we would actually look forward to housework. About this time every year, I'm ready to put a hose into my living room window and turn the nozzle to full blast. The place is full of tracked-in grit, stale air,...Tags: Martha Stewart, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Personal Service, Breads, Family
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