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Good Deal On Horizon
Every summer for generations, families have traveled to the hills of East Haddam to what were once dozens of resorts that offered swimming, boating, tennis, relaxation, home-style meals and even romance. With the planned closing of the Sunrise Resort in...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Academic Progress, Frank Davis, Natural Resources, Wildlife
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CCC Camps In State
Camp Roosevelt, Clinton: Now: Chatfield Hollow State Park Camp Hook, Danbury: Now: Squantz Pond State Park Camp Graves, Union: Now: Nipmuck State Forest Camp Wolcott, Torrington : Now: Paugnut State Forest Camp Roberts, Thomaston: Now: Black Rock...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Tourism and Leisure, East Lyme, Cornwall
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Milestones Are Rock-Solid Link To Our Region's Past
Are the granite markers along major roadways protected as historical monuments somehow? Do they really measure the distance to nearby cities? K.F., East Hampton Granite markers were used to tell travelers how many miles it was to another town,...Tags: Monuments and Heritage Sites, Tourism and Leisure, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Benjamin Franklin
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'The Highway' Now Part Of the Air Line Trail
The main trail that runs through the Middlesex Land Trust's Sellew Preserve is known as "The Highway." Although not the four-lane variety, the old road was once used by hobos looking for a free ride on the Air Line Railroad that took trains through East...Tags: New York, Road Transportation, Transportation, Hampton (Windham, Connecticut), Town of East Hampton
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A Picture Of All The Rumors
I confess. I was amused at this month's magazine cover of The New Yorker. Please forgive me. But there is humor in this absurd and asinine depiction of the couple who could become America's first black president and first lady. When the next generation...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Terrorism, Newspaper and Magazine, Barack Obama
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The ceramics of Otto Heino, and a peek inside his home
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe first in a yearlong series profiling California's living legends of midcentury design. AT 94, Otto Heino has no time for false modesty. "I am," he says, "the oldest, richest potter in the world." With an output of 10,000 pieces a year, Heino...Tags: Ojai, Sherman Oaks, Homes, Building Material, Ethics
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New York, Connecticut push feds to reverse Broadwater OK
tom.incantalupo@newsday.comFederal energy regulators are being formally urged by state and local officials and environmentalists in New York and Connecticut to reverse a decision approving the Broadwater liquid natural gas facility. New York State officials on April 10 denied...Tags: Wading River, Energy Resources, New Jersey, Nassau County, David A. Paterson
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One Great Ride
One of the nicest places to ride in Connecticut is the Air Line State Park trails, which run from East Hampton all the way to the Massachusetts border, about 50 miles in all. The trail is divided into two sections; the first runs between East Hampton and...Tags: Thompson, Tourism and Leisure, Lakeview, Hampton (Windham, Connecticut), Windham (Windham, Connecticut)
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WEST CORNWALL: Covered bridges connect with the past
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThe first thing visitors to the small hamlet of West Cornwall notice is its red covered bridge. The timber structure commands attention, set against a backdrop of woods and the Housatonic River. The bridge is one of three remaining covered bridges in...Tags: Cornwall, American Revolutionary War, David Wright, Building Material, Sociology
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Preaching to the Indians
Staff WriterFrom their first encounter with the Indians of Long Island, Europeans sought to convert them to Christianity. Although there does not appear to have been a well-organized crusade to convert the Indians of Long Island, there are accounts of individual...Tags: Wisconsin, Michael Smith, Suffolk County (New York), Hampton (Windham, Connecticut), History
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A Preacher Who Moved Crowds
Staff WriterThere was a little joke going around Manhattan some time around the middle of the 19th Century that went something like this: Question: How do you find Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Church? Answer: Take the ferry to Brooklyn and follow the crowd. He was...Tags: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sinclair Lewis, Litchfield (Litchfield, Connecticut), Prosecution, Walt Whitman
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Gods of the Indians
Staff WriterLong Island Indians believed in an abundance of gods, in a devil who was responsible for evil, and in an afterlife in which their souls went west to live either in peace or in torment. ``There were the gods of the four corners of the earth,'' wrote...Tags: Belief and Faith, Robert Cooper, Values, Ethics, New York
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