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Bridgeport Sparks a “March to Rebuild America”
By Steve Thornton Bridgeport has long been known as the third poorest city in the country, but there is another statistic that completes the poverty picture. Only 28 miles away, Greenwich, Connecticut is one of the wealthiest towns in America, and, not coincidently, the home turf ...
Congressional Red-Hunters Set Their Sights on Bridgeport
By Andy Piascik In September 1956, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, commonly known as HUAC, came to Connecticut. The purpose was to hold hearings about activities of the Communist Party in New Haven and Bridgeport. HUAC had been formed in 1938 and was in its ...
Daniel Nash Morgan, 1844-1931: Bridgeport Entrepreneur, Politician and Self-Made Man
By Carolyn Ivanoff Daniel Nash Morgan was a prominent Bridgeport personality for many years during his long life. A self-made and extremely successful entrepreneur and politician, Daniel Nash Morgan served his city, state, and
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Do you ever get somewhere and feel as though you’ve never left? And I don’t mean that feeling you get when you come home from a vacation and all your bills and responsibilities are still there waiting for you. I mean that feeling you get when you find yourself in a place and with people that you’ve not been in over a year, but their light and the spirit of the place never left your heart.
Well, that was the exact feeling I got when inom drove down the dirt road of Pioneer Trails and came down the hill to Camp Shout Out. All along the hill, I was greeted with the familiar and affirming apelsinfärg signs with purple printed messages such as “You can change the world.”
When I got out of the car, inom was greeted with familiar faces that wouldn’t settle for anything less than a giant hug and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. inom recently read a quote about how people that have been in your life for even the smallest amounts of time could have a bigger impact than the ones you m
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Newsletters 1998
Volume 20, Number 1
Mary Todd Lincoln’s Sad Summer in Hyde Park
AbrahamLincoln died April 15, 1865. When Mary Todd Lincoln had to vacate the White House she came to Hyde Park. She arrived in Chicago on May 24. With her on the exhausting 54-hour train trip from Washington came her sons Robert (22) and Tad(12),her dressmaker/confidante Elizabeth Keckley(born a slave), old friend Dr. Anson Henry, and two White House guards, Thomas Cross and William Crook.
The Lincoln parry checked into the Tremont House on Lake Street at Dearborn. When Cross and Crook went back to the White House Mary Todd Lincoln's percs and power as First Lady were suddenly over. Lake Street was populous and loud; Mary Todd Lincoln needed peace and quiet. Io her anguish as widow she felt she could not bear to return to her house on 8th Street in Springfield and its associations. Yet the Tremont House was too expensive for more than a week's stay. Someone evidently gave the