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Home, Sweet Home: Picking Your Spots
Diana's Pool One of the must-see attractions in eastern Connecticut is Diana's Pool in Chaplin, along the beautiful Natchaug River. This fishing, kayaking and hiking spot is also popular as a destination because of its sheer beauty. An almost rite of...
Tags: University of Connecticut, Music, Broadway Theater, Canoeing and Kayaking, Old State House
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FOX CT Storm Closings
FOX CTSCHOOLS Bloomfield Closed Regional District 14 Del Opening 2 Hours 09/08/2011 06:39am Windsor Locks Public Schools Del Opening 1 1/2 Hours 09/08/2011 06:22am Wooster Del Opening 2 Hours 09/08/2011 06:36amTags: Mansfield, Enfield, Engineering, Worship (music group), Hospitals and Clinics
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Lebanon
The Hartford CourantHOW IT GOT ITS NAME: From the white cedars that reminded the Rev. James Fitch, a founding father, of the cedars of Lebanon mentioned in the Bible. ORIGINS: Incorporated in 1700 from land grants and private land purchased by settlers directly from the...Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Lebanon, Washington (Litchfield, Connecticut), Executive Branch
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Hartford Wits -- Or Were They?
Courant Staff WriterJust after the American Revolution, Hartford had grown from the 100 people who came with Thomas Hooker in 1636 to a thriving community of about 4,000. The city was essentially a port. The tallest hill had been dug away for fill on the riverfront, a large...Tags: Ohio, Benjamin Franklin, Joel Barlow, Massachusetts, Connecticut
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Chapter One: The Plantation Next Door
The most disturbing evidence of Connecticut's long and profitable complicity in slavery lies hidden in plain sight in the town of Salem, in the fields and woods around an ice cream bar near Routes 11 and 82. There, archaeologists from Central Connecticut...Tags: Slavery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Plant Openings, Executive Branch, Archaeology
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Chapter Eight: The Debt
James Forman stepped into The Riverside Church in Harlem clutching a cane in one hand and a copy of his "Black Manifesto" in the other. It was May 4, 1969, and the mostly white congregation - 1,500 voices strong - was singing the Sunday service's...Tags: Slavery, Racism, Jesse Jackson, Politics, Immigration
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Sep 29, 2002
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