Isabel Blake, Welfare Warrior

Isabel Blake challenges state legislators to “meet with us and talk things over.” The legislators stay silent. “We don’t bite,” … More

We Won’t Starve Quietly

At the height of the Great Depression, thousands of Hartford people were thrown out of work. Like the rest of … More

Ethel Thompson and her family reached Hartford after midnight. She entered the Hotel Essex on Main Street and went to … More

The front page photo was startling, even to people who had lived in the city all their lives. On May … More

On the cold morning of November 29, 1976, snow and ice rained down on a small group crowded in the … More