Secret Connecticut : a guide to the weird, wonderful, and obscure / Anastasia Mills Healy.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681063058
- ISBN: 1681063050
- ISBN: 9781681063058 : PAP
- ISBN: 1681063050 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781681063058
- ISBN: 1681063050
- Physical Description: x, 198 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Publisher: St. Louis, MO : Reedy Press, 2021.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-194) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Up, up, and away -- A quarter acre of heartache -- Dreaming in Simsbury -- I have a bridge to sell you -- A mikvah in Montville -- First in flight -- Back to the future -- An island retreat -- The Freeman sisters and Little Liberia -- Gatsby in Westport -- Connecticut's Stonehenge -- No lute required -- The ladies of Litchfield -- The first U.S. president was a nutmegger -- A radiant glow -- A refuge in an archipelago -- Friends, Romans, Connecticans -- Our own Indiana Jones -- If it flies, it dies -- Something to think about -- The light on ragged mountain -- Boys will be boys -- Berin graffiti -- Beyond the hand sock -- Holy mackeral -- War with Pennsylvania and claim to Cleveland -- Iranistan : not a former Soviet state -- The golden age of comics on the Gold Coast -- Willimantic Rocks -- 20,000 leagues under the Connecticut River -- Would you like a tour of hell? -- Nazis get NIMBYed -- Spooky fun -- O little town -- There's something about Army -- Frisbie! -- Ribbit! -- You can go home again -- How to make $4 billion from teapot lids and spare bolts -- If these walls could talk -- Wild horses couldn't get me to... -- Green acres -- A Woodstock nakation -- America's first spa resort -- Shade swamp sanctuary -- Let them eat Grey Poupon -- A safari in Litchfield -- A few good men -- Education pioneers -- Sergeant Stubby -- Before her time -- Moving mountains -- Whoa, Nellie! -- Adriaen who? -- Madame Butterfly on the Mianus -- Firsts and lasts in Bridgewater -- A camp for adults -- Reuniting Europe in Middlefield -- Calling all scholars and space nuts -- "Lone eagle" in Connecticut -- Who ya gonna call? -- Monets on the mountain -- Hidden commentary -- Radiance captured -- "I am no politician" -- Slow down and pay attention -- Don't mess with Connecticut -- The state's Stepford legacy -- The mysterious critter that started a craze -- A walk through the state's military history -- What in the world is a gungywump? -- No boring artifacts here -- No throwing stones -- Ahoy, Matey! -- Looks can be deceiving -- There's nothing evil in the dark forest -- The mystery of the Leatherman -- Before there was Bernie -- Look out behind you! -- Elementary, my dear... -- Putting the "woods" in Foxwoods -- Connecticut's sweet tooth -- Have it my way -- A tale of quarantine and star-crossed lovers. |
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Subject: | Curiosities and wonders > Connecticut > Guidebooks. Historic sites > Connecticut > Guidebooks. Connecticut > Guidebooks. Connecticut > Miscellanea. |
Genre: | Guidebooks. |
Available copies
- 17 of 23 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Windham Free Library - Windham Center.
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- 1 current hold with 23 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Windham Free Library - Windham Center | 917.46 HEA (Text) | 33760146546346 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |