Connecticut in World War 1

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Comics were a part of the daily life of Connecticut’s men who served in the Great War. Doughboys anticipated the arrival of American military papers not only for the news they delivered regarding the home-front and various military happenings, but also for the beloved comic strips they contained. American soldiers relished cartoons as a form of escape from the devastation […]

Friday Find: The Funnies

in Friday Find tagged Abian Wallgren / comics / Yale University

July 13, 1913 We are in a village about two miles from Pau, with a lovely walk through the tall woods thither, and have been well taken care of by an ancien[t] professor and his wife. The first of August, we move into a new little apartment of our own, […]

James Robinson Smith: Scholar, Father, Soldier

in Connecticut Stories / Friday Find / Profiles tagged James Robinson Smith / Red Cross / Yale University

This week’s Friday Find comes to us from Dale Plummer, the City Historian of Norwich, Connecticut. Mr. Plummer shares a World War I memorial that once resided on the Chelsea Parade green in Norwich. Mr. Plummer wrote us: [A] series of articles from the Norwich Bulletin [ran] in 1926 about a […]

Friday Find – Norwich’s Forgotten WWI Memorial

in Connecticut Stories / Friday Find / Memorials tagged homefront / memorials / newspapers / Norwich