Author name: Steve Fithian

The winter season of 1935-1936 in New England was characterized by extremely cold temperatures and relentless snowstorms that resulted in […]

Lydia Huntley was born on September 1, 1791, the only child of Ezekiel and Zerviah Huntley of Norwich, CT. Raised

A significant chapter in the story of the burgeoning economic power of Norwich during the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth

Connecticut was the first of the original thirteen American colonies to formally create the groundwork for a democratic form of

In 1855, Calvert B. Cottrell and Nathan Babcock entered into a formal business partnership creating the Cottrell & Babcock Manufacturing

Danny Murphy was born on August 11, 1876, in Philadelphia, PA. His family relocated to Fall River, Massachusetts, an industrial

Charlotte Perkins was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, CT. Her father Fredric Beecher Perkins, was a highly educated

Prudence Crandall was born on September 3, 1803, in Carpenter’s Mills, Rhode Island. When she was ten years old her

Daniel Coit Goodman was born on July 6, 1831. He was the fifth of nine children born to Eliza Coit

J. H. Cranston was born and educated in the local schools in the seaport town of Mystic, Connecticut. At a