Summer 2011 VOLUME 9 / NUMBER 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
Harriet’s 200!
Stowe & Twain’s Nook Farm
My Summer in Tobacco
How We Made Connecticut
On the Hunt for Civil War Treasures
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On the Cover: Detail, souvenir print of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1861.
| Features | |
| 14 Women Who Changed the World Connecticut women who made things happen. By Barbara Sicherman |
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| 20 Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Most Famous American Adoring crowds waited for a glimpse of Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Katherine Kane |
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| 26 Laboring in the Shade Heading north for a summer job in the tobacco fields By Dawn Byron Hutchins |
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| 36 Making of Connecticut A history of Connecticans raising their voices to fight for justice. By Ben Gammell |
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| Contents | |
| pg 9 |
Hog River Journal: Is It Ok to Admit You Like Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
By Elizabeth J. Normen |
| pg 10 |
Letters, etc.
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| pg 13 |
From the State Historian: 2011’s “Must Read” Book is 160 Years Old. By Walter W. Woodward
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| pg 14 | Women Who Changed the World. By Barbara Sicherman |
| pg 20 | The Most Famous American: Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Katherine Kane |
| pg 26 | Where Mr. Twain & Mrs. Stowe Built Their Dream Houses. By Elizabeth J. Normen |
| pg 30 | Laboring in the Shade. By Dawn Bryon Hutchins I Was a Pennsy Girl. By Connie Robinson |
| pg 36 | Making Connecticut. By Ben Gammell Connecticut Historical Society’s new permanent exhibition about Connecticut. |
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pg 42
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The Inaugural Stowe Prize. By Debby Applegate |
| pg 43 | Destination: Inspired by Stowe. By Mary Ellen White |
| pg 44 | Site Lines: The Black Church: Fortresses of Faith, Agents of Change. By Mary M. Donohue and Whitney Bayers |
| pg 46 | Connecticut’s Civil War Treasure Troves. By William Hosley |
| pg 48 | Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations |
| pg 54 | Afterword |