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A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors
…military valor? Ferriday’s French Connection Photo taken in France of Caroline Ferriday, from the cover of Jacqueline Péry d’Alincourt’s reminiscence of Ferriday given at Ferriday’s 1990 memorial service in Bethlehem…
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A Better Home and Garden in Bethlehem
…of the house contains works of art, ornaments, and furniture that reflect much of Caroline Ferriday’s taste and interest in honoring the home’s history. Open to the public, the Bellamy-Ferriday…
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Children of the Reconcentrados: Caroline Selden’s Cuban School
By Nancy Finlay The 1900 Federal Census lists 29 children, between the ages of 7 and 24, living with Henry M. and Caroline Selden in Old Saybrook. Twenty-four of the…
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The Public Library Movement: Caroline Hewins Makes Room for Young Readers
By Susan Aller In 1904 Caroline Hewins implemented an innovation that would transform public libraries across the United States. She established one of the first rooms in a public library…
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The Reverend Joseph Bellamy Makes Bethlehem a Holy Place
…kept it in the family until 1868. After several changes in ownership, Caroline Ferriday took over the property and in the latter half of the 20th century restored much of…
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Bethlehem
…operate textile mills, a wagon factory, and a straw hat and bonnet factory. Today Bethlehem is known as Connecticut’s “Christmas Town” and is home to the Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden….
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The Stonington Battle Flag
…passed to Nathan G. Smith. His daughter Caroline donated the flag to what is now the Stonington Historical Society in 1895 as that organization’s first artifact. Descriptions, pictures, and photographs…
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Hartford’s Sex Trade: Prostitutes and Politics
By Steve Thornton Ann Dunn and Caroline McElroy were unceremoniously escorted to the police station where they were charged with prostitution. The arrest of the two Hartford women came in…
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The Gettysburg Address and Heroic Fathers Bronze Tablets at the State Capitol
…was open to any patriotic American woman who wished to help surviving Union veterans and their families. Caroline Janney, in her book, Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits…
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The Socially Dynamic Drumlin of Foss Hill
…Foss) bought a small house on the hill in 1860. When Archibald C. Foss died in 1870, his widow, Caroline, continued to live there. The residence became known as “Foss…
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A Day for Women – Today in History: March 8
…a new generation of leaders, all college educated and career minded. Katharine Ludington of Hartford along with Caroline Ruutz-Rees and Grace Thompson Seton, both of Greenwich, adopted new strategies to…
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History in a Heart
By Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library Pioneering librarian Caroline M. Hewins, who came to Hartford from Boston in 1875 and lived here for 50 years, helped establish what we…
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Trolley Campaigners Storm Small Towns and Votes for Women is the Battle Cry
…Lovejoy, Ernest Thompson Seton, Lincoln Steffens, and Charles Zeublin. Connecticut Suffragists Take to the Rails “Votes for Women Trolley Campaign” program; inscribed by Caroline Ruutz-Rees, CWSA Fairfield County chairman, to…
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