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Art Donation, Stalwarts Depart To Close 2012
The Hartford CourantA few things to wrap up before the ball comes down on 2012: • The late Hartford artist Richard Welling drew buildings and cities; and visually chronicled the postwar changes in Hartford and, to some degree, New Haven and New York City. He died in...Tags: Joe Lieberman, Dining and Drinking, Arts and Culture, Avenues, Global Warming
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'Culture Commerce' An Artful Alternative To The Mall
The Hartford CourantAs much as I love shopping, the holiday mall crawl can get old quick, even for me. Luckily, there's an alternative to big-box stores, crowded parking lots and long lines. It's called "culture commerce" — retail lingo for shopping stores in...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Mark Twain, Arts and Culture, Arts, Travel
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The Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford Remembers Prohibition in Connecticut
For months, CPTV solicited prohibition-era photographs and memorabilia from Connecticut residents for Prohibition: Connecticut Goes Dry, an original documentary airing soon. To celebrate, they've teamed up with the Connecticut Historical Society,...
Tags: Glastonbury, Arts and Culture, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Documentary (genre)
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Plan Ahead: 6 Good Upcoming Shows Near Hartford
Why wait until the last minute to get your act together? Here are six events at least a week out to get you started. 1) Chicago, Oct. 25-28, The Bushnell, Hartford, (860) 987-5900, bushnell.org. 2) The Toasters, Oct. 31, 9 p.m., $10-$15, Arch Street...
Tags: Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Jerry Springer, Arts and Culture, Palace Theater, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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The State of Connecticut Has an Array of Valuable and Strange Artifacts
Painting of George Washington: $20 million. Two-headed calf: $2,000. Iconic industrial statue: $1.5 million. New Haven church records covering 138 years: $2,550. Documents of a disgraced governor: $500,000. Those are just a sampling of the hundreds of...
Tags: Insurance, Politics, Arts and Culture, Executive Branch, Simsbury
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Voting On For State's Best Tourism Site
From the Mark Twain House and Museum to the Coventry Regional Farmers Market, state residents have chosen 10 finalists in the #CTFanFavorite tourism campaign online. Now the voting starts to pick a fan-favorite. From July 17 to 31, the Connecticut Office...Tags: Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Huey Lewis and the News (music group), Mark Twain House and Museum, Westport Country Playhouse, Politics
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Thief of historic documents sentenced to prison
Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme...
Tags: Gerald Ford, Ken Burns, Central Intelligence Agency, Judges, Celebrities
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Historic document thief sentenced to 7 years in prison
Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, was sentenced seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents from archives and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast. The 64-year-old...
Tags: Prisons, Abraham Lincoln, Arts and Culture, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Punishment
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Home, Sweet Home: Picking Your Spots
Diana's Pool One of the must-see attractions in eastern Connecticut is Diana's Pool in Chaplin, along the beautiful Natchaug River. This fishing, kayaking and hiking spot is also popular as a destination because of its sheer beauty. An almost rite of...
Tags: Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Trips and Vacations, Sociology, Heublein Tower, Forestry and Timber
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A Poet's Legacy: The Wallace Stevens Walk
Special To The CourantAmong Hartford's literary luminaries over the past two centuries, Wallace Stevens is right there: That is, wholly within the shadow of Mark Twain. Twain is the subject of constant scholarship, essays and books. Stevens is the poet some Connecticut...Tags: Poetry, Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Hospitals and Clinics, Saint Francis Care
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Descriptions of some of the stolen documents
A four-page personal handwritten letter from John Jay Audubon to Gideon B. Smith, dated May 18, 1843, taken from the Connecticut Historical Society. A single-page letter from Marie Antoinette written in French on Oct. 2, 1784, taken from the...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Theft, Arts and Culture, John Jay, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Savedoff pleads guilty in historic document case
Less than four months after a Maryland Historical Society employee uncovered a cultural property heist called "truly breathtaking" by national archivists, one of the men charged in the scheme has pleaded guilty.
Jason James Savedoff, 24, admitted...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Museums, Defendants, Arts and Culture, Vancouver (Canada)
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