By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Maritime Series Part VI See Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 7 In the creation of this story, we wish to acknowledge the efforts of Cathie Iaccarino, Bill Breen, Dr. Scott Graves, Dr. Jim … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Maritime Series, Part V See part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 6 | part 7 Sandy Point Part I In the creation of this story, we wish to acknowledge the efforts of Cathie Iaccarino, Bill Breen, … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Maritime Series, Part IV See part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 Safe Navigation One day, after they finished their walk out along Sandy Point, Father and The Boy walked along the beach … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Maritime Series, Part III See part 1 | part 2 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 New Haven’s Lighthouse When we look across New Haven Harbor on a clear day, it is easy to spot the white monolith of … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Maritime Series, Part II See part 1 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 New Haven Harbor’s Breakwaters We look out across the water and there they are; we take them for granted and give them … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Maritime Series, Part I See part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 New Haven Harbor: In 1614, Dutch Explorer Adriaen Block visited and mapped the Connecticut shoreline; he named the … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The Move “Life is made up of small comings and goings: And for everything that we take with us, we leave a little piece of ourselves behind.” -Herman Raucher September, 1961 The … [Read more...] about Historian’s corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Sancta nox, placida nox (Silent Night, Holy Night) As has been previously stated on this page, Dad spent Christmas Eve 1944 in battle in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. That same evening, not far … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The First Christmas in SpaceAboard Apollo 8 Space travel has become so routine that some of us cannot remember a time when it generated great excitement and captured the imagination of the world--a time … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Pilgrim or Puritan? We today often use the words Puritan and Pilgrim interchangeably, and yet the difference in the two is quite significant: those who came on the Mayflower to establish the starving colony … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner