Remembering Connecticut

<DIV>With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Connecticut Sam L. Rothman provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Connecticut. The Nutmeg State the Constitution State the Land of Steady Habits. For a state that some derisively claim is “no bigger than a postage stamp there is no shortage of nicknames or descriptors for Connecticut. Nor is there any shortage of history! Remembering Connecticut celebrates 80 years of growth change and reform through a collection of snapshots each providing a unique and different viewpoint. The result is not a narration but rather a set of impressions captured through the lenses of many different cameras. From the decades following the Civil War we view Connecticut's inventiveness and industrial genius through its mills and factories. In its neighborhoods colleges and rural towns we glimpse its religious cultural and intellectual wealth. Along rural lanes railroads rivers and highways we catch images of its farmers workers and war heroes of its reformers industrial statesmen inventors and schoolchildren. Through train wrecks floods and blizzards Remembering Connecticut provides a glimpse at the hardscrabble toughness that characterizes the people of Connecticut.</div>