Like history itself, The Dudley Farm Museum is a work in progress. …
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Lines in the Sand
Connecticut has 253 miles of shoreline, but in the late 1960s only seven miles of it were accessible to the public. That rankled activist Ned Coll, and he set out to do something about it. …
Taken by Storm
The cloud was monstrous. Some saw it as a cone spiraling into itself like a massive spin of cotton candy. Others saw a giant layered bowl on a dense pedestal of rain. The National Weather Service later identified it as …
Course of Events
When the Beach Boys played, there was “no point in sitting down, except perhaps to keep from fainting,” recalls Sarah Heath of Hamden. Her friend Michael Ross, who grew up in North Haven, witnessed many a bloody hockey game when …
Memory Serves
About 450 years ago somewhere in Eastern Europe, perhaps in Poland, an unknown scribe wrote on sheepskin parchment the Hebrew text of the Torah. …
Made to Measure
“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage…
Oral History
Emeline Roberts Jones didn’t intend to become the first American woman to practice dentistry. …
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