All posts tagged "Stratford Conn."
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7.6KArts and LeisureSix Paintings of New England Spring
Artists have probably created far fewer New England spring paintings than of any of the three other seasons. After all, New England...
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6.4KConnecticutSamuel Smedley, Fairfield’s Boy Commander of the Connecticut Navy
Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
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7.0KConnecticutDavid Wooster, Revolutionary War Hero, Befriends a Freed Slave
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
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6.1KBusiness and LaborJohn William Sterling, a Well-Respected Man With a Secret
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
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25.5K11Arts and LeisureFidelia Bridges, The Lonely Painter Who Found Joy in Nature
Fidelia Bridges often felt lonely and sad, but her exquisite paintings convey a lyrical joy in the birds and flowers she loved....
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7.0KBusiness and LaborIgor Sikorsky: From Kiev to the U.S. to the Wild Blue Yonder
In the spring of 1913, word leaked out about a four-engine airplane being built by Igor Sikorsky. Many people believed it wouldn’t get...
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