Country Acres and Cul-de-Sacs (eBook)

amp;lt;P>JAY GITLIN teaches history at Yale University. He is the author of The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders &amp; American Expansion and co-author of Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. He lives in North Branford, Connecticut.</P>

<P>Prologue: Reading Connecticut Circle<BR>Acknowledgments<BR>Introduction: Connecticut Circle: The Life of a State in Transition, 1938 – 52<BR>PART 1. CONNECTICUT GOES TO WAR—J. RONALD SPENCER<BR>"Summary of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Activities during 1940" (August 1941)<BR>"Bridgeport Brass on War Footing" (January 1942)<BR>"Our Oldest Naval Service: United States Coast Guard Academy Activities at New London" (February 1942)<BR>"Do You Recognize Rank?" (February 1942)<BR>"Connecticut Submarines, L. Y. Spear—Submarine Builder," by Robert Hatfield Barnes (June 1942)<BR>"Connecticut Submarines—the Submarine Base," by Robert Hatfield Barnes (September 1942)<BR>"The University in Wartime," by Charles Seymour, President, Yale University (December 1942)<BR>Florence Duquette [General Electric war worker] (June 1943)<BR>"The Biggest Partner Helps Win the War" [Bridgeport war effort], by John J. Egan, Secretary-Treasurer of the Connecticut Federation of Labor (June 1943)<BR>"Where Bridgeport Men and Women Are Speeding Victory" [ad for Jenkins Valves] (June 1943)<BR>"The Counting House Goes to War: Veeder-Root, Leaders for 76 Years in Development of Computing Devices," by John Donnell (November 1943)<BR>PART 2. POLITICS, POLITICIANS, AND EDITORIALS—WALTER WOODWARD<BR>"Governor Raymond E. Baldwin Says Economic Security Depends upon Productive Effort" (January 1940)<BR>"An Editorial Writer of 'The New London Day' Is Creating Much Attention: A Few Facts about Gordon Bodenwein" (June 1941)<BR>"Connecticut's First Woman Keynote Speaker: A National Figure Enters the Connecticut Congressional Race; Mrs. Clare Booth Luce of Greenwich Clarifies Party's Aims," by Frank Wyman (October 1942)<BR>"Uncle Toby—Connecticut Yankee" [about Wilbur L. Cross], by Samuel Maury (November 1943)<BR>"Are You a Member of the White Collar Class? Then It Is Your Money That Pays for This War" (December 1943)<BR>"Let's Preserve Connecticut for Connecticut People: A Striking Letter, Full of Reason, to State Highway Commissioner William J. Cox, from Herman W. Steinkraus, President of Bridgeport Brass Company" (July 1944)<BR>"Connecticut Should Look Forward to Many Generations of Progress, Says Fuller F. Barnes" (October/November 1945)<BR>"Scenes Not Signs" [editorial regarding the Binney Bill] (November 1946)<BR>PART 3. AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES—GEORGE J. WILLAUER<BR>"Connecticut: The Maritime State," by H. F. Morse (January 1938)<BR>"The Flies Have It: An Episode of Connecticut Trouting," by Edwin Ashley (March 1938)<BR>Pictures of the 1938 flood (November 1938)<BR>"Photo Record, Hurricane and Flood: New England's Greatest Disaster" [ad for book on the hurricane and flood] (December 1938)<BR>"Turkeys Turkeys Turkeys," by Sidney A. Edwards, Managing Director, Connecticut State Development Commission (December 1940)<BR>"Really Talking Turkey: Oldest Family Tree in the United States," by Merrill Crawford (December 1940)<BR>"Franklin Wanted the Turkey for Our National Bird (Maybe It Is Anyway!)" (December 1940)<BR>"Dairying Is an Essential Industry," by E. G. Woodward (March 1942)<BR>"Artificial Breeding of Dairy Cows," by Albert I. Mann, Assistant Extension Dairyman, University of Connecticut (March 1942)<BR>"The Shad Return to the River: Connecticut River's Perennial," by Walter Burke Coll (April 1942)<BR>"Four Million Chicks a Year Prove Pierce Quality," by Bradford Alden (December 1944/January 1945)<BR>"C. F. Woodford and Son: Raisers of Fine Tobacco at Foot of Avon Mountain and in Simsbury" (October 1949)<BR>PART 4. BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, AND TRANSPORTATION—PATRICK L. PINNELL<BR>"Igor I. Sikorsky: The World's Greatest Designer of Flying Boats," by Edward B. Tracy (October 1938)<BR>"Connecticut's Super-Highways of the Future," by William J. Cox, Commissioner, State Highway Department (May 1940)<BR>"Recent Developments in the 'Direct-Lift' Aircraft," by Igor I. Sikorsky (July 1941)<BR>"Connecticut Inventor of Football Dummies" [Marty Gilman], by Martin Sheridan (November 1942)<BR>"Typewriters to Carbines," by James Splaine (January 1943)<BR>"The Story of the Dictaphone: As Told through the Dictaphone," by T. H. Beard (June 1943)<BR>"A Romance in Coconut" [Peter Paul Inc.], by Frank Wyman (April 1944)<BR>"This Is the Home of the Famous Connecticut Made Seth Thomas Clocks" (June 1945)<BR>"Proposed Cure for Hartford Traffic" (December 1945)<BR>"Proposed Location of Norwich – New London Airport at Trumbull Field" (February 1946)<BR>"United Aircraft Motors Span World Airways: From East Hartford Go the Famous 'Wasp' Motors That Furnish Power for Our Greatest Airliner Cruisers and Fighters" (March 1949)<BR>"Moving a Country-Side to Build the Baldwin Bridge Approaches: M. A. Gammino &amp; Sons Move Hillsides in Acquiring 'Borrow' Material for High-Way Fills" (May 1949)<BR>"The First Hundred Years: In Which a Great Organization So Developed Drug Products That Thousands of Lives Were Saved in World War II, and Hundreds of Thousands Are Cured Each Year; Pfizer in Connecticut—The Constitution State Congratulates Chas. Pfizer on Its Third Birthday in the Land of Steady Habits" (September 1949)<BR>"A Business That Grew from New Ideas" [Sponge Rubber Products Company, Naugatuck] (July 1952)<BR>"How Remington Rand Will Greet You at the World's Fair" (May 1939) [Special issue on the World's Fair]<BR>PART 5. MAPPING THE PAST: BITS OF HISTORY—THOMAS M. TRUXES<BR>"'Old Put'" [Israel Putnam of the American Revolution], by Chester Braman (March 1938)<BR>"The Governor's Foot Guards: History of the Second Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut in 1775," by Major John Lee Gilson (March 1938)<BR>"Justice for the First Lady of New Haven" [Anne Eaton], by Margery Greenleaf (June 1939)<BR>"The Foundations of New England" ["Rock Garden," by Odell Shepard] (July 1939)<BR>"Ghost Towns," by Harry A. Judd (April 1943)<BR>"Connecticut Tradition Made to Live Again" (January 1949)<BR>PART 6. PROJECTING THE FUTURE: IDENTITY, REAL ESTATE, AND COLONIAL REVIVAL—JAY GITLIN<BR>"Draw Your Weekend Winter Dividends from Your Summer Home Investment," by Marguerite Mooers Marshall (January 1938)<BR>"'Connecticut Invites You': The Why What and Who of the Connecticut State Publicity Commission," by Raymond D. Loring (January 1938)<BR>"Greenwich Has Many Residential Advantages" [ad for Greenwich Trust Company] (January 1938)<BR>"Connecticut: An Oasis in the Desert of Taxation," by Eugene G. Blackford, President of Greenwich Trust Company (February 1938)<BR>"Merritt Parkway: Paved with Good Intentions," by Moses Berkman (February 1938)<BR>"I Want to Go Back," by Sylvia Stevenson (February 1938)<BR>"As to the Merritt Parkway" (February 1938)<BR>"New Tax Proposal: An Original Plan for New Taxation That Will Protect and Not Penalize the Home Owner," by Thomas J. Moore (April 1938)<BR>"A Fine Example of Before and After" [Roxbury] (April 1938)<BR>"Tired City People Find Comfort in Connecticut" (April 1938)<BR>"That House in the Country: The Place Everyone Talks About but Too Few Actually Achieve" [New Canaan] (April 1938)<BR>"Yale Farms... 1,400 Acres of Beautiful Country" [North Greenwich/Quaker Ridge] (April 1938)<BR>"Whither Westport?" (April 1938)<BR>"Two City People Make Good in a Small Town: This Is the Story of the Patmore Farm at Upper Stepney, Where Famous Friends in the City Will Find Rest and Recreation in Rural Connecticut," by Early Byrd (April 1939)<BR>"World-Famous Schools and Colleges" (July 1939)<BR>"A State of Beautiful Homes" (July 1939)<BR>"The Lure of Connecticut" (July 1939)<BR>"The Connecticut Association of Real Estate Boards" (July 1939)<BR>"Connecticut 'Firsts'" (July 1939)<BR>"Workshop of the World" (July 1939)<BR>"Greenwich and Connecticut Are Always First with the Samuel F. Pryors," by Roger Doulens (September 1946)<BR>PART 7. CONNECTICUT WRITERS, ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, AND ACTORS—HELEN HIGGINS<BR>"Batch: Clarence Daniel Batchelor, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Connecticut Cartoonist" (January 1938)<BR>"Connecticut on the Air" [Lily Pons, Ray Lee Jackson, Morton Downey, Ida Bailey Allen] (January 1938)<BR>"Light... on Many Subjects: The Story of Stanley McCandles," by Waleska Bacon Evans (April 1938)<BR>"The La Farges: A Connecticut Family of Distinguished Artists," by Charlotte B. Sills May (1938)<BR>"Heigh Ho" [Rudy Vallee], by Chester Braman (May 1938)<BR>"Connecticut's Literary Gallery" [Lois Lenski, Phil Strong, Janet Camp Troxell, Isabel Wilder, Le Grand Cannon Jr.], by Charlotte B. Sills (July 1938)<BR>"Connecticut Authors and the Christmas Book Shelf" [Odell Shepard, Geraldine Farrar, Neill James], by Charlotte B. Sills (December 1938)<BR>"Marion Stephenson: Fashion Photographer, Connecticut Farmer" (January 1940)<BR>"Edna Ferber's Garden," by H. V. Crass (August 1940)<BR>"Robb Sagendorph: The Yankee Who Makes 'The Yankee' 'Six Smart Yanks' in One" (June 1941)<BR>"Hendrik Willem van Loon: Versatile Internationalist," by Alfred C. Langlois (March 1942)<BR>"Connecticut in Movieland" [Rosalind Russell], by Allen M. Widem (July 1942)<BR>"Connecticut in Movieland" [Katharine Hepburn, Adriana Caselotti], by Pearl M. Widem (June 1944)<BR>"On the Collecting of Old Maps" [C. E. Whitlock], by William J. Prendergast (August 1944)<BR>"Connecticut's Venerable Drummer" [Allan F. Dresser], by Sando Bologna (January 1957)<BR>"Last of the Famous Day Brothers Celebrates 80th Birthday" [George Parmly Day] (January 1957)<BR>PART 8. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS—GEORGE J. WILLAUER<BR>"Dr. Blunt States Her Aims for Connecticut College" (January 1938)<BR>"Wesleyan" (February 1938)<BR>"Connecticut State College" [Storrs], by Walter Stemmons (April 1938)<BR>"Taft and Mr. Taft: A Short History of a Famous School and How It Grew," by John F. Morse (May 1938)<BR>"Rosemary Hall" (May 1938)<BR>"The Yale-Harvard Regatta as Paul Barnett Sees the Race" (July 1938)<BR>"Avon Old Farms: A Successful Achievement in Character Building and Citizenship Training," by Clive Howard (December 1938)<BR>"Theodate Pope Riddle," by Lynne Crider (December 1938)<BR>"Thomas Jefferson and Trinity College," by Richard W. Insley (September 1939)<BR>"Yale and Her Sons: A Pictorial History with Authentic Dates and Incidents" (January 1949)<BR>"Hopkins Grammar School Looks Ahead Approaching Its Tercentenary: Trustees Have Approved Plans for a New Building" (April 1949)<BR>PART 9. HUMOR AND FEATURES—JAY GITLIN<BR>"Bouquets and Brickbats from Everywhere" (February 1938)<BR>"Life in Connecticut," by William R. Everritt (February 1939)<BR>"I Know Nice People: An Interesting Analysis of Handwriting" [Governor and Mrs. Raymond Baldwin], by Florence Ballou (December 1939)<BR>"Do You Know Connecticut History? Statue and Memorial Contest" (February 1942)<BR>"Connecticut Calendar" (February 1946)<BR>"Firsts in Connecticut" (April 1946)<BR>"Yale's Cavalier of the Court" [Tony Lavelli] (April 1946)<BR>PART 10. ACHIEVING WOMEN—CAROLYN WAKEMAN<BR>"How Ladies Must Behave in Connecticut," by Nathaniel M. Terry Jr. (March 1938)<BR>"'The Stooges That Bloom in the Spring—Tra La': (Being an Article on June Brides from the Maid-of-Honor's Point of View)," by Virginia Rooks (July 1938)<BR>"Connecticut Women of Achievement" (August 1938)<BR>"N.B.C. Fashions: Spring Comes to Radio City," by Amelia Umnitz (April 1939)<BR>"Some Well Known Garden Club Presidents" (May 1941)<BR>"Republican Women Meet Clare Booth Luce as Guest of Honor" (June 1944)<BR>PART 11. ADVERTISEMENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS—PATRICK L. PINNELL<BR>"A Friendly Hotel in a Friendly City: Hotel Taft" [New Haven] (June 1940)<BR>"Clinton Casino" (July 1941)<BR>"Dictaphone Keeps Those Mental Production Lines Rolling, Too!" (December 1941)<BR>"Your Forefathers Flourished on 'White' Bread Like This," Pepperidge Farm (January 1942)<BR>"Trace Your New England Ancestry through the Hartford Times" (June 1942)<BR>"Sweets for the Nation!" Peter Paul Inc., Naugatuck (July 1942)<BR>"Telemusic and Good Food Go Together," Telemusic Inc., Hartford [early recorded background music] (July 1946)<BR>"Horton Brasses: Authentic Reproductions of Old Designs" (January 1949)<BR>"Blakeslee's Oxen Plowing on Temple Street, New Haven, about 1900" (March 1949)<BR>"Koffee Kottage on U.S. 10" (December 1949)<BR>"Historic Hartford... A Scene That P&amp;W Remembers" [Mark Twain, Pratt &amp; Whitney Company Inc.] (April 1957)<BR>PART 12. CONNECTICUT CIRCLE COVERS—PATRICK L. PINNELL<BR>Older woman gardening with two servants (April 1938)<BR>Splashing in the waves (August 1942)<BR>Two ROTC students and one hockey player at Yale (March 1943)<BR>Young woman with corn stalks, holding a pumpkin (October 1943)<BR>"Connecticut Industry: The Fires of Patriotism" (February 1945)<BR>Chester Bowles and dog (February 1949)<BR>Connecticut lady with antiques (September 1949)<BR>"Connecticut's Leading Actress at Home" [Katharine Hepburn] (August 1957)<BR>PART 13. HARRY FRANKLIN MORSE—LAURIE PASTERYAK LAMARRE<BR>"Connecticut Circle Radio Program" (April 1939)<BR>"The Public Spirited Citizen Who Made Connecticut Circle Magazine Possible" (May 1939)<BR>"Thanks for Inviting Me to Join the Circle," by James Street (July 1939)<BR>"Have You Seen 'Connecticut Homes'" [ad for H. F. Morse Associates Inc.] (April 1943)<BR>"Connecticut" [ad for Connecticut Circle] (August 1945)<BR>Notes<BR>Index</P>