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Whitney Library - New Haven Museum

Keepers

In its first year, spanning 1862 and ’63, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, now known as the New Haven Museum, received some dubious gifts—“59 curiosities and relics,” to be...

Keepers

In its first year, spanning 1862 and ’63, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, now known as the New Haven Museum, received some dubious gifts—“59 curiosities and relics,” to be...

Together Again

Together Again

If you know Jonathan Edwards at all, it’s probably because of his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” A staple of American literature textbooks, it includes lines...

Together Again

If you know Jonathan Edwards at all, it’s probably because of his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” A staple of American literature textbooks, it includes lines...

The Dudley Farm Museum

Family Farm

Like history itself, The Dudley Farm Museum is a work in progress. The 1844 homestead, located on Durham Road in Guilford, was the residence of generations of Dudleys—an old Guilford...

Family Farm

Like history itself, The Dudley Farm Museum is a work in progress. The 1844 homestead, located on Durham Road in Guilford, was the residence of generations of Dudleys—an old Guilford...

New Haven Arena in 1934 (depicted image held by the New Haven Museum)

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...

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...

Rabbi Brockman at Mishkan Israel

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. When he was finished, each page...

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. When he was finished, each page...

Made to Measure

Made to Measure

“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage in his essay “Ye Mylestones of Connecticut,” published by the New Haven Colony Historical Society...

Made to Measure

“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage in his essay “Ye Mylestones of Connecticut,” published by the New Haven Colony Historical Society...