Middletowns High Street And Wesleyan University

Author : Alain Munkittrick and Deborah Shapiro
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467105465
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middletown's High Street and Wesleyan University written by Alain Munkittrick and Deborah Shapiro and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Street and Wesleyan University (founded in 1831) share a fascinating, intertwined history. From this major inland port on the Connecticut River, Middletown's sea captains and merchants made fortunes in the 18th and early 19th centuries trading with the West Indies, South America, and China. Others enjoyed wealth amassed from the local manufacture of swords, firearms, and marine hardware. These prominent families built fashionable villas of the latest architectural designs on High Street. Many of their homes remain, and two have been designated national historic landmarks. With spectacular views of the river valley below, its avenue of arching elms, and the addition of Wesleyan's formidable "Brownstone Row," the street has attracted many to the hill. Dignitaries, including George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, William Howard Taft, and Martin Luther King Jr., came to High Street.

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Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book Wesleyan University Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Fodor
ISBN 13 : 1400004535
Total Pages : 781 pages
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Download or read book New England written by and published by Fodor. This book was released on 2010 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes major tourist attractions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, providing expanded coverage of Hartford, Boston, and Cape Cod.

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400007216
Total Pages : 642 pages
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Author : Traute M. Marshall
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656210
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Art Museums Plus written by Traute M. Marshall and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England

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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Author : Jill Hunting
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806190450
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book For Want of Wings written by Jill Hunting and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1872, a young graduate of Yale University named Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. The rare fossil, an avian dinosaur with teeth and flightless wings, proved that birds evolved from reptiles. More than a century later, Russell’s great-granddaughter set out to retrace her ancestor’s forgotten expedition. Part detective history, part memoir, For Want of Wings is Jill Hunting’s captivating account of her journey into prehistory, national history, and family history. In her quest to piece together fragments of her family’s past, Hunting ends up crisscrossing the United States, from California to Connecticut. On her first trip across the Colorado Rockies to the fossil bed site near Russell Springs, Kansas, Hunting brings along her then twenty-six-year-old daughter. When the book opens, mother and daughter are both at crossroads, each seeking to understand the impact of personal decisions on the landscape of her life. As Hunting ventures forward, she encounters unexpected resources, such as ten-year-old triplets who converse with her about dinosaurs and a Connecticut museum where portraits of her ancestors hang on the walls. Through lively descriptions of these visits, Hunting advances a view of history as nonlinear and full of unlikely coincidences. For Want of Wings is also the carefully researched story of the least known of Yale’s four expeditions into the American West, led by eminent paleontologist O. C. Marsh; the friendship between Russell’s father and abolitionist John Brown; a portrait of a mother and daughter evolving in self-understanding; and an inquiry into matters of race in American history and the author’s own family. In the end, all these pieces converge, like fragments of a fossil, to form an exquisitely patterned work of historical exploration.

Author : Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
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Total Pages : 612 pages
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