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SPRING 2008
VOLUME 6 / NUMBER 2
IN THIS ISSUE:Down the Pike

	Scaling the White Mountains in a 1911 Columbia Motorcar
	Building a Big Ditch to Spur Connecticut’s Economy
	The Marvel of Early Balloon Flight
	Catching the Stage to Litchfield

On the cover: The Hickmott family of Hartford embarks on a 143-mile, seven-hour drive to Marblehead Neck Massachusetts, July 1911.

Contents Features
pg 18 Motoring with the Hickmotts When automobile travel was adventure. By Diane Pflugrad Foley and Mark H. Jones
Pg 24 The Ill-Fated Farmington Canal Before Boston’s Big Dig, there was Connecticut’s Big Ditch. By Ellsworth S. Grant
Pg 30 The Rise and Fall of Silas Brooks, Balloonist Seeking fame and fortune as the Great American Aeronaut. By Lawrence S. Carlton, M.D.
Pg 36 Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach When all roads led to Litchfield. By Lynne Templeton Brickley
Pg 42 Traveling Hartford-Area Turnpikes—Then, Now, or Never? Plans for a beltway around Hartford hit a dead end. By Frederick A. Hesketh
Departments
pg 11	From the Publisher: Getting There—A Quick Transportation History By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 12	Contributors to This Issue
pg 14	Letters, etc.
pg 48	Destination: Tracking Down Our Classic Coasters By C.J. Hughes
pg 50	Spotlight: What’s Up With Stratford’s Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Plant? By Mary M. Donohue
pg 52	Destination: A Short History of Connecticut Racetracks By Allan E. Brown
pg 54	Shoebox Archives: Coasting Out of the 70s By David Allen
pg 56	Shoebox Archives: Two Men in a Car: Connecticut’s Early American License Plates By Marcy Fuller
pg 57	Soapbox: Preserving the Meritt Parkway By Leigh Grant
pg 58	Afterword: What’s on view, 5th Anniversary Celebrations, and more…