Winter 2014/2015
VOLUME 13/NUMBER 1
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Connecticut Explored CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD STORY AFTER ANOTHER
IN THIS ISSUE: Connecticut in the Great War > “The Kaiser is Canned!” > A Voice Against the Vietnam War > Saving Italy’s Art from the Nazis > Civil War Bonds and Paper Coins
ON THE COVER: Poster, “Remember! The Flag of Liberty,” 1918. Litchfield Historical Society
Table of Contents
9 Hog River Journal: Kicking off the WWI Centennial Commemoration by Elizabeth Normen
10 Letters, etc.
13 From the State Historian: A Pint-Sized View of War. By Walter W. Woodward
14 Join the Brave Throng
Posters exhorted Litchfield residents to join the fight. By Jessica Jenkins
20 Greenwich Women Face the Great War
Our contributions from the home front. By Kathleen Eagen Johnson
26 New Haven’s Monuments Man
Artist Deane Keller saves Italy’s treasures. By Laura A. Macaluso
32 How Connecticut Paid its Civil War Bills
Governor Buckingham secures a loan. By James E. Brown
38 Yale’s Chaplain Takes on the Vietnam War
From pulpit to protest, Bill Coffin followed his conscience. By Warren Goldstein
44 Remembering the Pequot War in Fairfield By Elizabeth Rose
46 Site Lines: Housing Factory Workers During Wartimes By Mary M. Donohue
48 Connecticut Humanities: Of Anniversaries … And Beginnings By Douglas G. Fisher
50 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
56 Afterword