All posts tagged "pomfret conn."

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  Frederick Law Olmsted Plans A Cemetery or a Hundred

  Chances are good you have encountered the work of Frederick Law Olmsted more than once in your lifetime. You’ve probably set foot...

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  Isaac Bissell Electrifies Connecticut With News of the Battle of Lexington

  Isaac Bissell electrified the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut with the news of the Battle of Lexington in April 1775. He rode...

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  Israel Putnam Shows the British How to Settle a Fight – Connecticut Yankee Style

  Israel Putnam stories abound, but one of the most entertaining dates back to his days in the French and Indian Wars. Known...

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  Whistler’s Mother Poses for Her Bad Boy

  When bad boy artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s mother first came to live with him in London in 1864, he had to...

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  The Legend of the Israel Putnam Wolf Den

  Gen. Israel Putnam famously left his plow in the ground when he heard about the battle of Lexington and immediately rode the...