Showing posts with label Connecticut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connecticut. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

Historic Photos of Connecticut by Sam L. Rothman

Small in admeasurement but affluent with history, the accompaniment of Connecticut is allegorical of all that is timeless, treasured, and quintessentially American.

With fact-filled photo captions and affiliate introductions by historian Sam L. Rothman, Historic Photos of Connecticut rediscovers the state’s alluring accomplished through about 200 attenuate photographs adopted from the Library of Congress, University of Connecticut, Connecticut State Library, Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Bristol Historical Society, and the Stafford Historical Society, showcased with aberrant accuracy and beauty.

From the adventure of the “Charter Oak” and the accompaniment capitol’s aureate arch to Mark Twain’s Hartford home and the USS Nautilus, and abundant more, Connecticut shines through the decades in august black-and-white photography, displayed in a ample format. This makes a abundant book for any history, travel, or photography enthusiast!

“Photos admonish us who we are and area we accept been. As we appraise the problems of burghal poverty, abomination and apprenticeship in Connecticut’s cities, images of the accomplished advice us accept how these problems emerged,” says columnist Rothman.

Historic Photos of Connecticut is allotment of Turner Publishing’s Historic Photos series. These books highlighting the history of the abundant cities, cardinal events, and allegorical abstracts above America, accept been acclaimed as a basic in the accumulating of anyone who loves history.

Historic Photos of Connecticut
By Sam L. Rothman
Turner Publishing, $39.95
ISBN 13: 978-1-59652-431-6
www.turnerpublishing.com

Contact Information:
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Liz Chenery
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Turner Publishing Company
200 4th Avenue North, Suite 950
Nashville, TN 37219
Phone: (615) 255-2665
Email: rjoiner@turnerpublishing.com
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Turner Publishing is an independent, award-winning administrator based in Nashville, Tennessee. Turner produces a ambit of accomplished books in fiction and album categories, including its acclaimed Historic Photos series. Imprints cover Turner, Trade Paper Press, and Iroquois Press.

Explore the Connecticut Science Center with Hartford Marriott Rocky Hill Hotel’s Fun Family Package

Exercise children’s imaginations and aggrandize their minds at the Connecticut Science Center during a fun ancestors break at the Hartford Marriott Rocky Hill hotel. Families can crop advantage of this Hartford ancestors hotel’s ‘Family Fun for Four’ vacation package including breakfast and tickets to the Connecticut Science Center.

Splash about in the calm pool. Eat a appetizing breakfast at Allie's American Grille. Get a acceptable night's beddy-bye on the Marriott Revive® bed. Hartford Marriott Rocky Hill has aggregate you charge for a memorable ancestors getaway. The ‘Family Fun for Four’ auberge amalgamation includes:

• Deluxe bedfellow allowance for four, with ample accommodation and costly Marriott Revive® bed
• Four admissions tickets to the Connecticut Science Center
• Buffet breakfast for four in Allie’s American Grille
• Complimentary parking

The Connecticut Science Center appearance 150 hands-on exhibits, a advanced 3D agenda theater, four educational labs, additional circadian programs and contest absolute for breath kids. Featuring capacity including physics, biology, forensics, cartography and astronomy, the Connecticut Science Center has agitative exhibits to activate children’s accuracy and absorb them at the aforementioned time. Fun for families with accouchement of all ages, even adolescence and adults, the Connecticut Science centermost is amid beneath than 10 afar abroad from the Hartford Marriott Rocky Hill hotel.

This AAA 3 Star auberge is nestled in the quiet burghal association of Rocky Hill, amid adjacent to Hartford and New Haven, CT attractions and the Hartford and Bradley International Airport. This hotel’s accurate check-in and check-out, ample guestrooms and calm basin makes it an ideal destination in Connecticut for families.

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