November 26, 2000 In a sense, Connecticut has been a part of the global economy since the first Native American bartered the first beaver pelt to the first visiting European fur trader. The Connecticut colony was settled as part of Britain’s colonial empire; it fought a revolution in large part over issues of international… Read More »
MARTIN LUTHER KING IN CONNECTICUT
January 15, 1997 In 1944, a fifteen year old Martin Luther King spent the summer working on a tobacco farm near Simbury, Connecticut. His experiences in integrated restaurants, halls, and churches made a profound and lasting impression on him. In letters only recently published, King wrote home: “Dear Father: On our way here we… Read More »
ALL WE WANT IS MAKE US FREE: THE STORY OF AMISTAD
September 12, 1994 Draft text for a half-hour educational documentary sponsored by the Amistad Committee, Inc [Opening location: possibly a 19th century sailing ship on Long Island Sound or the Amistad monument in New Haven. The narrator may tell the story to a group of New Haven school children.] Narrator: This is the story… Read More »
SMALL CAN BE STRONG
February 20, 1994 As Connecticut’s economy stagnates, proposals proliferate for casinos, sports arenas, malls, fantasy theme parks, giveaways to lure out-of-state companies and contracts for just one more militarily-useless weapons system. The Land of Steady Habits is in danger of becoming the land of the quick fix. The new global economy pushes us toward… Read More »