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Walter Woodward @waltwould

State Historian Emeritus of Connecticut. Retired History Professor @UConn. Host of #GratingtheNutmeg podcast about #CTHistory.

Joined November 2008
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August 5: Liberty Stands On a Connecticut Foundation todayincthistory.com/2024/08… via @waltwould

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July 31: An Electrifying Change in Urban Transportation Today in 1900, one of the first electrically powered trolley lines in the United States began service on the three-mile run between Branford and East… todayincthistory.com/2024/07…
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July 30: Powder Ridge: The Epic Rock Festival That Never Was Today in 1970, a sea of nearly 30,000 concertgoers circumvented police roadblocks and hiked up Beseck Mountain in Middlefield, Connecticut with high … todayincthistory.com/2024/07…
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December 16: First Connecticut Stretch of Interstate 84 — the “Yankee Expressway” — Opens todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 13: Citizens Save the “Birthplace of the Nation’s Greatest Hits” From the Wrecking Ball todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 12: Battered "Bat" Battalino Battles Back Bigtime todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 11: The World's First Jet-Powered Helicopter Flies Over Bloomfield todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 10: A Stage Show Entertainment Leads to the Discovery of Anesthesia todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 9: Rocker Jim Morrison Arrested in New Haven todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 8: "The Learned Blacksmith" . . . & Patriotic Pacifist todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 7: A Stand Out Governor, & the Only Civil War Veteran in the Baseball Hall of Fame todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 6: Florence Griswold and the Fine Art of Hospitality todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 5: America's First Law School's First Hire todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 4: Four Trains, Two Tracks –– The Great East Thompson Train Wreck todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 3: A “Lighthouse” For Outcasts, Far From the Ocean todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 2: The First Successful Permanent Artificial Heart todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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December 1: PEZ Candy Opens Wide in Orange todayincthistory.com/2023/12… via @waltwould
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November 30: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Marry in Greenwich todayincthistory.com/2023/11… via @waltwould
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November 29: Connecticut's Presidential Portrait Painter todayincthistory.com/2023/11… via @waltwould
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