Connecticut
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2.7KStephen Mather: Secret Breakdown at the Dawn of the National Park Service
Stephen Mather went to the wilderness to heal the brainsickness that plagued him throughout his life. Ironically, his work to save America’s...
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1.9KWhen Teddy Roosevelt Barnstormed New England
In the fall of 1902, President Teddy Roosevelt barnstormed New England on behalf of Republican congressmen. He wanted as many elected as...
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5.0KFootball’s Death Harvest of 1905, or How Teddy Roosevelt Saved the Grid Game
Teddy Roosevelt loved the rough-and-tumble of football the way college athletes played it back in 1895. He even wrote a letter saying...
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4.1KThere’s Something About an Aqua Velva Factory Town
For many years, oceans of Aqua Velva after-shave lotion poured out of the J.B. Williams Co. factory in Glastonbury, Conn., and into...
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3.2KWhy Do We Say Hello? Thank Connecticut
You won’t find the word “Hello” in any plays by Shakespeare, letters by John Adams, Webster’s early dictionaries, newspapers, poems, or novels...
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