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Connecticut Witch Trials
9781626193871
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Connecticut's witch hunt was the first and most ferocious in New England, occurring almost fifty years before the infamous Salem witch trials.
Between 1647 and 1697, at least thirty-four men and women from across the state were formally charged with witchcraft. Eleven were hanged. In New Haven, William Meeker was accused of cutting off and burning his pig's ears and tail as he cast a bewitching spell. After the hanging of Fairfield's Goody Knapp, magistrates cut down and searched her body for the marks of the devil. Through newspaper clippings, court records, letters and diaries, author Cynthia Wolfe Boynton uncovers the dark history of the Connecticut witch trials.
Old Saybrook
9781467143417
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $11.00 Save 50%Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers
9781626197923
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Over fifty thousand Connecticut soldiers served in the Union army during the Civil War, yet their stories are nearly forgotten today.
Among the regiments that served, at least forty sets of brothers perished from battlefield wounds or disease. Little known is the 16th Connecticut chaplain who, as prisoner of war, boldly disregarded a Rebel commander's order forbidding him to pray aloud for President Lincoln. Then there is the story of the 7th Connecticut private who murdered a fellow soldier in the heat of battle and believed the man's ghost returned to torment him. Seven soldiers from Connecticut tragically drowned two weeks after the war officially ended when their ship collided with another vessel on the Potomac. Join author John Banks as he shines a light on many of these forgotten Connecticut Yankees.
Wicked Litchfield County
9781467119696
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9781467150620
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $11.00 Save 50%Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich
9781467138574
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Greenwich in the seventeenth century was a lost world with tythingmen and meeting warners, wild horse hunters, herdsmen, townsmen, pounders and planters.
Faced with an ever-changing environment, citizens set many new-world boundaries. Farmers created common fields along the coast and redesigned wilderness. They balanced religious and civic authority, private and common interests and financial inequities across communities. The first comers found it more challenging to please their own than it was to please their God. Their departure from the past fashioned an idealized, yet still imperfect, new society the Puritans proudly called the Greenwich Plantation. Author Missy Wolfe details the strategies and setbacks of creating community in colonial America's First Period.
History, Legends & Myths of Beacon Falls
9781467150613
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $11.00 Save 50%Wicked Ridgefield, Connecticut
9781467136822
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Riding the Wild Ocean
9781467139021
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A History of Connecticut Food
9781609495121
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A History of Connecticut Food aims to acquaint the reader with the long and storied relationship of the state's people and their provisions.
Each chapter will focus on a different crop, livestock, game, or prepared dish that Connecticut has either pioneered or made its own. Along with these brief histories, the book will feature traditional and modernized recipes. In short, A History of Connecticut Food will both inform the people of Connecticut about their culinary past and inspire them to explore it.
Wicked Waterbury
9781596296299
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Wicked Bridgeport
9781609493790
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Join Bielawa as he navigates a precarious path through the unforgettably macabre and scandalous misdeeds of Bridgeport.
Beneath the smokestacks of the gritty cityscape of Bridgeport, Connecticut is the shocking criminal underbelly of this New England community. Sin and vice have long had a home on the shores of the Long Island Sound, and Bridgeport's sinister past is littered with tales of pirates, mobsters, bizarre Victorian murders, and even rumors of a doctor's attempts to reanimate the dead. Historian Michael J. Bielawa investigates such bizarre crimes as the unsolved murder of philanthropist James Beardsley, and the grisly discovery in Yellow Mill Pond during the 19th century, which helped legitimize forensic science. Join Bielawa as he navigates a precarious path through the unforgettably macabre and scandalous misdeeds of Bridgeport.
History of the Connecticut River, A
9781609494056
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Paddle from Enfield Rapids to Long Island Sound and travel down one of America's most famous waterways, the Connecticut River.
Its calm waters conceal an unruly past, where native tribes lost ground to Dutch and English colonists who vied for the river's immense economic power. The skyline of Hartford looms on the western shore, with the gold dome of the capitol as a remnant of this robust economy centered on world trade. Many have found a deep inspiration along the river, including Lady Fenwick, a local legend; David Bushnell, creator of the first American submarine; and even Albert Einstein, who contemplated the cosmos while relaxing on the riverbanks. Author Wick Griswold takes readers on a provocative journey as he traces the history of the Connecticut River.
The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe: Smuggled Through Connecticut
9781609493028
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Author Christopher Pagliuco reveals the all-but-forgotten stories of these Connecticut heroes.
When Puritans Edward Whalley and William Goffe joined the parliamentary army against King Charles I in the English civil wars, they seized an opportunity to overthrow a tyrant. Yet when his son, Charles II, regained the throne, Whalley and Goffe were forced to flee to the New England colonies aboard the ship Prudent Mary--never to see their families or England again. Even with the help of New England's Puritan elite, including Reverend John Davenport, they struggled to stay ahead of the authorities in Boston, New Haven, and the outpost of Hadley, Massachusetts. Though forced to live out the rest of their lives fugitives, these former major generals survived frontier adventures in seventeenth-century New England, and became embedded in early United States history.
Lobster Rolls of New England:
9781626194083
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