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CFP: Popular Culture in Early America – March 24-26, 2011

This came across my desk recently and I plan on attending…not as a presenter, but as an observer. The subject matter is just too interesting to pass up.

See you there!

Cranky

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CFP Update: Popular Culture in Early America – March 24-26, 2011 (Storrs, Conecticuit & Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)

The Fourth James L. and [...]

Auction to Benefit Local History!

There will be a Goods and Services Benefit Auction this Friday to help Willimantic, CT’s three local history museums.

The auction is for the Windham Textile & History Museum, the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum, and the Windham Historical Society.

The Benefit Auction is Friday, Nov. 5 at:

Eldridge Auction Gallery

90 South Park St.

Willimantic, [...]

Another death…Bruce Fraser

This is terrible!  I hate to be the bearer of morbid news (unless it’s about cemeteries, which to me is not morbid), but we lost another champion of history here in the state of Connecticut.  This week we have lost Bruce Fraser to cancer.  He was 62.

Read about him at the Hartford Courant here [...]

RIP Bill Stanley

Our condolences goes out to the family, friends, and associates of Norwich, CT historian Bill Stanley, who died yesterday at age 80.

Read about it at the New London Day and Norwich Bulletin.

Whatever you may think about his ideas regarding Samuel Huntington as the first President, or his boosterism of Benedict Arnold, you have [...]