Connecticut in World War 1

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A Lonely Flute book — By Dylan Haviland and Joshua Falcone, SCSU Journalism students Dylan Haviland and Joshua Falcone, journalism students at Southern Connecticut State University, reported this story as part of Journalism Capstone coursework on World War I. From the gunfight of a battle field to the soldiers headed off to war, Connecticut poets […]

WWI Sparks Poetry for Connecticut Residents

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Workers making Browning machine guns at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company at New Haven (Connecticut), 6 April 1918. Part of the workforce were Yale alumni: Arthur Huntington Gulliver, B.A. 1877. Born December 13, 1856, in Norwich, Conn. Died April 12, 1942, in Framingham, Mass. lived in Norwich 1911-29, insurance and […]

New Haven’s Home Front Manufacturing

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The Loomis School opened in 1914. Twenty-five boarding boys, 12 “day fellows,” five local girls in the Loomis Girls’ Division, and eight students in a part-time cooking class made up the school population. Four decades earlier, five Loomis siblings had founded the vision for the school and recorded their thoughts […]

Friday Find – Loomis Chaffee School Archives

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