New England Travels

Visits to City and Seacoast, Farm and Factory, Mountains and Valleys. And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New England State Symbols

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There is an astonishing collection of state symbols in New England, most of which most of us probably have never heard of, until reading tri...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

"To Dakota and Back" - Orphan Trains Memoir

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Once upon a time, New England children were forced into indentured servitude in a wide and vastly unpopulated West that needed laborers. Th...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Jean Arthur at the Westport Country Playhouse

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The Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut has drawn, aside from appreciative audiences, luminaries from the world of stage and screen to...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

You Are Here: West Cornwall, Connecticut

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You are here in West Cornwall, in the quiet hills of northwestern Connecticut, nine miles from Goshen if you’re going that way, and a varie...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Blackout - December 1942

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It’s beginning to look a lot like…darkness. This public service announcement in the Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News reminds us about...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Christmas Dinner at the Sheraton, Springfield, Massachusetts

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December 25, 1941, with the U.S. only two weeks into its involvement in World War II, the future might have been forboding, but no rationi...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

December Sale at Steiger's, Springfield, Massachusetts

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On sale at Steiger's, downtown Springfield, Massachusetts in December, 1941.  Got to get those "socks for skating" for 39 ce...
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