Title: Hidden history of Connecticut /
Authors: Faude, Wilson H.
Publisher: History Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Connecticut History Anecdotes.; Connecticut History, Local Anecdotes.; Connecticut Social life and customs Anecdotes.; Connecticut Biography Anecdotes.
Contents: The Great Seal of Connecticut : which way the grapes? -- Colt Park : the park that almost wasn't -- A love story -- Take a pew -- He saved the Constitution -- A one-time promotion : the Travelers calendar -- A Farmington Christmas -- The ultimate gift for Mom -- Frederic Church -- A museum for nature, history, and art in Greenwich -- Connecticut rocks -- New Britain Museum of American Art -- Christmas on Main Street -- When to celebrate the founding of Connecticut -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Christmas -- Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven -- Without Hartford, no President's Day -- The truth about the Charter Oak -- Douglas Orr, architect -- The quintessential New England church -- Shakespeare in Stratford -- The arts of Old Lyme -- Meriden in the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Enfield's indelible mark on the Shakers -- Bridgeport's Barnum -- Eric Sloane's museum -- Where it began : Woodbury -- John Rogers : "the people's sculptor" -- Who's talking on talking books -- Pomp, pageantry, and a boar's head -- The Sharon statement and Thanksgiving football.