| Description |
376 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Maps on lining-papers. |
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Includes index, p. 367-376. |
| Contents |
Connecticut's restless people -- The nutmeg brand -- From Saugatuck to the seven seas -- Invented in Connecticut -- Carloads of lanterns, the mail order king -- The raggies -- Land hunger -- Along the Rio Grande -- Beneath Candlewood, the big basin -- Music vale -- Lost paradise -- Ghost town -- Father Dunn and his cooperative -- Beyond the call of duty -- Matt Lyons, the dragon of democracy -- Women who earned their keep and more -- Moll Cramer, witch of Woodbury -- Burnt fingers -- The bad man of Bridgewater -- Easy victims -- They found a way. |
| Summary |
"By 1817 more than 700,000 Connecticut people and their descendants were populating other states, while less than 300,000 remained in Connecticut...the men and women who stayed were strangely possessed by a disquieting urge to find new things to do and new ways to do them."--pp. 9-10. |
| Subject |
Connecticut -- History.
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Connecticut -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Garrigus, William H., author.
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