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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a woman ahead of her times. Best known as the author of the best-seller ¿Uncle Tom¿s Cabin,¿ Stowe wrote more than 30 books over 50 years while raising seven children and running a household. Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Conn., to a preacher who spoke out against the practice of slavery long before it was fashionable. Stowe's book ¿Uncle Tom¿s Cabin¿ is credited with popularizing the abolitionist cause against slavery and is said to have contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War between the Northern United State and south. Legend has it that when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 he said, "So you're the little woman who w...
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a woman ahead of her times. Best known as the author of the best-seller ¿Uncle Tom¿s Cabin,¿ Stowe wrote more than 30 books over 50 years while raising seven children and running a household. Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Conn., to a preacher who spoke out against the practice of slavery long before it was fashionable. Stowe's book ¿Uncle Tom¿s Cabin¿ is credited with popularizing the abolitionist cause against slavery and is said to have contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War between the Northern United State and south. Legend has it that when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 he said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!" After Stowe¿s scholarly husband retired, the family moved to Hartford, where she built her dream house. n 1873, she moved to her last home, the brick Victorian Gothic cottage-style house on Forest Street, which is open as a museum. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, adjacent to the Mark Twain House and Museum, has three historic buildings on 2.5 acres.
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Cookbooks on '88 books that shaped America' list from Library of Congress
![A just-released <a href="http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/" target="_blank">list</a> from the Library of Congress salutes 88 books that shaped America, all by American authors. It starts with Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and continues alphabetically on through "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, ending with "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum and "The words of Cesar Chavez" by Cesar Chavez. It's meant to start a <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-la-lanews-88-books-that-shaped-america-20120704,0,4098713.story" target="_blank">conversation</a>. And it did when we came upon the cookbooks on the list, each a reflection of their times.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-07/70893954-05145634.jpg "A just-released <a href="http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/\" target=\"_blank\">list</a> from the Library of Congress salutes 88 books that shaped America, all by American authors. It starts with Mark Twain's \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" and continues alphabetically on through \"Beloved\" by Toni Morrison, \"Common Sense\" by Thomas Paine, ending with \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" by L. Frank Baum and \"The words of Cesar Chavez\" by Cesar Chavez. It's meant to start a <a href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-la-lanews-88-books-that-shaped-america-20120704,0,4098713.story\" target=\"_blank\">conversation</a>. And it did when we came upon the cookbooks on the list, each a reflection of their times.")
Tribune reportersA just-released list from the Library of Congress salutes 88 books that shaped America, all by American authors. It starts with Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and continues alphabetically on through "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, "Common...Tags: Martha Stewart, Library of Congress, Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, L. Frank Baum
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Digging in the dirt, author Christopher Benfey unearths his family's story
Most memoirs are mush. Given the tender emotions, fragile reminiscences and flights of fancy that tend to flit and twirl within your average autobiography, the genre is known for its shifting, dreamlike core, not its steely spine. Christopher Benfey...
Tags: Genres, John Cage, Emily Dickinson, Building Material, Mark Twain
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The Ultimate List of Summer Festivals in Connecticut
Alive @ 5, Columbus Park, Main St. & W. Park Place, Stamford. (203) 348-5285, Stamford-downtown.com. June 21: Los Lonely Boys. June 28: G. Love & Special Sauce. July 5: Creedence Clearwater Revisited. July 19: Matisyahu. July 19: Hot Chelle Rae. July 26:...
Tags: Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Music, Entertainment, Simsbury, Yonder Mountain String Band (music group)
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Signs of separation and segregation at Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford
Among the 35 framed pieces you'll discover at Hartford's Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, when you head to see their new exhibit, THEM: Images of Separation, at least two — reading "WHITES ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT" and "HELP WANTED NO IRISH NEED APPLY"...
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'Them: Images Of Separation' At Stowe Center In Hartford
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center has opened an exhibit, "Them: Images of Separation," that is a companion piece to the "Hateful Things" show at the Mark Twain House & Museum next door. Both exhibits are about bigotry and discrimination. Read my story...
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
Celebrating Juneteenth with Canadian history
![February isn't the only time to celebrate black history, and the importance of June 19 is a prime example of why. Juneteenth* is just around the corner, and trips like these are a great way to explore the U.S. and Canada's natural and educational history. On a memorable black history tour I took a few years ago, I explored the "follow the moss" connection between the U.S. and Canada. The route taken from Chicago to Canada was in the same direction slaves took, by following the moss on the trees until they arrived north.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62253354-09153139.jpg "February isn't the only time to celebrate black history, and the importance of June 19 is a prime example of why. Juneteenth* is just around the corner, and trips like these are a great way to explore the U.S. and Canada's natural and educational history. On a memorable black history tour I took a few years ago, I explored the "follow the moss\" connection between the U.S. and Canada. The route taken from Chicago to Canada was in the same direction slaves took, by following the moss on the trees until they arrived north.")
Tribune NewspapersFebruary isn't the only time to celebrate black history, and the importance of June 19 is a prime example of why. Juneteenth* is just around the corner, and trips like these are a great way to explore the U.S. and Canada's natural and educational history....Tags: Texas, Harriet Tubman, Travel, Black History, Michigan
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Book review: 'Against Wind and Tide' offers revealing portrait
Tribune newspapersAgainst Wind and Tide Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, edited and with an introduction by Reeve Lindbergh Pantheon: 358 pp., $27.95 "A woman writer is 'rowing against wind and tide,'" Anne Morrow Lindbergh told her daughter Reeve...Tags: The Washington Post, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Chicago Tribune, Book
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Best Park
1) Elizabeth Park Hartford has acres of history. We got your Mark Twain, your Harriet Beecher Stowe, your Wallace Stevens, your Samuel Colt, your Thomas Hooker. Major-league cultural shapers all. A somewhat lesser-known light is Frederick Law Olmsted,...
Tags: Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Samuel Colt, West Hartford, Bushnell Park
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Eve Ensler to Speak at Manchester's Cheney Hall
Hartford CourantEve Ensler, playwrioght, author and activist, will speak at Cheney Hall, Manchester on May 6, in as collaborative presentation of The Mark Twain House & Museum, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, and the World Affairs Council. Info: http://www....Tags: Mark Twain, Arts and Culture, Steve Jobs, Human Interest
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Malloy Cutting More Than $11M In Arts Funding
The Hartford CourantLeaders in Connecticut's arts community were stunned Wednesday over Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's plan to cut more than $11 million in payments to local arts programs as of July 1. The proposed cuts have raised concern as more than 20 different programs have a...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Arts, William R Dyson, Toni N Harp, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Check It Out: Celebrating 200 years of Dickens
Earlier this month, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens was celebrated in an event held at his burial site in London's Westminster Abbey. In attendance were many writers, academics, and other enthusiasts of the man considered to be...Tags: Anglicanism, Robert Douglas, Charles Dickens, Charles, Prince of Wales, Christianity
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