Ringing in the New Year (in Connecticut)

1974.6.20 Flash-light at midnight, 183 Sigourney Street, Hartford, December 31, 1888.

Another productive year has almost come to a close, and a New Year will soon commence. At midnight tomorrow, many of us will pop the champagne cork as we ring in 2014, and reflect on our accomplishments from this past year.

Celebrating America

For over 230 years, Americans have been celebrating the birth of America.  Although our celebrations of America generally culminate on the fourth of July, have you ever stopped to think of the ways we might celebrate America every day of the year?  Let me give you a few historical examples of how people in the past did just that…

Sampler. 1821. Gift of Jane Tuttle. 1923.9.0