April 4: Saving the Elm City’s Elm Trees

    Today in 1909, the last in a series of “campaign documents” aimed at mobilizing citizens to save the trees that had given New Haven its reputation as one of the world&#821…

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March 12: The “Great White Hurricane” Paralyzes Connecticut

  When snow started falling across the state in the early hours of March 12, 1888, Connecticut residents thought nothing of it. It wasn’t unusual to have light to moderate snowfall in ea…

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