Hartford

Author : Pablo Delano
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819579262
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hartford Seen written by Pablo Delano and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hartford Seen is the first modern-day art photography book focused exclusively on Connecticut's capital city. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Pablo Delano relocated from Manhattan to Hartford in 1996 to teach photography at Trinity College. On his daily drive to work, he was struck continually by the city's visual beauty and complexity. He left the car and began to explore, using his camera as a means of gaining a deeper understanding of what he found. In this personal meditation on Harford's built environment, Delano implements a methodical but intuitive approach, scrutinizing the layers of history embedded in the city's fabric. He documents commercial establishments, industrial sites, places of worship, and homes with a painter's eye to color and composition. His vision tends to eschew the city's better-known landmarks in favor of vernacular structures that reflect the tastes and needs of the city's diverse population at the dawn of the 21st Century. Over the last 100 years Hartford may have transformed from one of America's wealthiest cities to one of its poorest, but as suggested by Hartford Seen, today it nevertheless enjoys extraordinary cultural offerings, small entrepreneurship, and a vibrant spiritual life. The city's historical palette consists mostly of the brownstone, redbrick, and gray granite shades common in New England's older cities. Yet Delano perceives that it is also saturated with the blazing hues favored by many of its newer citizens. With more than 150 full-color images,Hartford Seen vitally expands the repertoire of photographic studies of American cities and of their contemporary built environments.

Author : Samuel Amadon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880834978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hartford Book written by Samuel Amadon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. In Samuel Amadon's intense, second collection, a sequence of meditative and darkly comic postmodern narratives about what it is like to be from Hartford, Connecticut, we stagger with the speaker down the streets of his still-present past, together with a motley cast of crackheads, liars, scoundrels, and unlikely heroes. "The speaker is on the rack and only timidly aware of the torture he cannot help wreaking. Our poetry will never be the same now Amadon has spoken, our language can be entirely different. Happily for us." Richard Howard "These poems are street-smart, buoyantly lyrical, and they possess something beautiful and permanent at their core. Samuel Amadon does for Hartford what Koch, Schuyler, and O'Hara have done for New York City." Tracy K. Smith"

Author : Lucius Barnes Barbour
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806307641
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut written by Lucius Barnes Barbour and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1977 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the genealogical records of over 950 families of early Hartford, Connecticut. The records that were used were mainly church records, sexton's records, and probate records and are arranged alphabetically by family name.--From Preface.

Author : John Hartford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732119000
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Hartford's Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes written by John Hartford and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Hartford's Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes" contains 176 of John's original compositions, most never before available, taken from the sixty-eight handwritten music journals he kept between 1983 and 2001. Interspersed with stories, quotes, rare photos, and his own personal artwork, this is a fiddle anthology unlike any other. A peek inside the unique mind of a prolific musician and composer, "Hartford's Mammoth Collection" will inspire musicians, artists, music historians, and anyone who loves the creative process.

Author : Demaris Hansen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819579521
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Hartt written by Demaris Hansen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Hartford's Hartt School celebrates its centennial in this lavishly illustrated book. The Hartt School holds unique qualities that continue to distinguish it from other performing arts institutions. Through personal and official written communications, school newsletters, speeches, and the exquisite quality of artistic expression, a belief in the value of art is continually reinforced, often with great eloquence, sometimes with humor, and always from the heart.

Author : Michael Skidgell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845227
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hartford Circus Fire written by Michael Skidgell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors and a gripping collection of vintage photographs, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies. Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Show on Earth" quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the paraffin-coated circus tent caught fire. Panicked crowds rushed for the few exits, but in minutes, the tent collapsed on those still struggling to escape below. A total of 168 lives were lost, many of them children, with many more injured and forever scarred by the events. Hartford and the surrounding communities reeled in the aftermath as investigators searched for the source of the fire and the responsible parties.

Author : Connecticut Trolley Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738539300
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hartford County Trolleys written by Connecticut Trolley Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the golden age of the trolley, Hartford County was crisscrossed with over 200 miles of trolley lines, reaching to all major cities and towns in the county. Only 8 out of the 29 cities and towns in the county were without some type of public transit. A busy and prosperous area, Hartford County played a major role in banking, insurance, and manufacturing during the trolley era in Connecticut.

Author : Kevin Murphy
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571024
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water for Hartford written by Kevin Murphy and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How three men brought clean water to Hartford, on a massive scale As good health is inextricably wedded to pure drinking water—and this particular concern looms larger every day—understanding delivery systems is almost as important as the water itself. Water for Hartford chronicles the century-long effort, beginning in the 1850s, to construct a viable, efficient water system. The story of Hartford's water works is a fascinating one, for it recalls the hard work, great sacrifice, and extraordinary engineering feats necessary to deliver wholesome drinking water to a growing urban center. It also illuminates the ever-changing social, political, and economic milieu in which it was built. The story of its construction is also the story of three men—Hiram Bissell, Ezra Clark, and Caleb Saville. Readers are transported back in time and given a firsthand glimpse of what these champions of a water system faced on a daily basis: unforgiving geography, venal politicians, and an often-indifferent public. The book culminates in the exhilaration of having built a water works from scratch to deliver clean, safe drinking water to the masses. Water for Hartford is a human story, peopled by men of vision and achievement, who understood that their decisions and actions would affect millions of people for decades to come.

Author : Brian Codagnone
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738555010
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hartford Whalers written by Brian Codagnone and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of the Hartford Whalers hockey team.

Author : Tomas J. Nenortas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738549989
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Hartford Revisited written by Tomas J. Nenortas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gilded city of Hartford triumphantly returns in this volume, Victorian Hartford Revisited, a compilation of many never before published images of Victorian splendor and incredible architecture. The social, economic, cultural, and architectural center of the state went through unparalleled growth after the Civil War. Demand for new technology made Hartford not only the political capital but the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution in the region. Tremendous wealth accumulated and materialized in the form of extensive estates, historic parks, magnificent schools, churches, public buildings, grand hotels, and a multitude of immigrant housing. This once Colonial port city along the Connecticut River rose to epitomize Americas Victorian age, and it is captured within these impressive pages.