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  A Builder's Tale: Lloyd E. Baldwin's Willimantic Before 1850: Sketches of Early Residences and Occupants

  A series of twenty-two newspaper articles originally published in the Willimantic Journal in 1895 by Lloyd E. Baldwin, an eighty-five-year-old retired carpenter and builder who had lived in Willimantic since 1828. Baldwin provides a building-by-building, person-by-person tour of Willimantic as it existed in 1850, documenting early residents, mill owners, workers, churches, schools, and streets during the early Industrial Revolution. Introduced and edited by Jamie Eves.
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  The Flight of the Cotton Fairies: The Story Behind the Story

  An explanatory essay by Jamie Eves providing historical context for Rose Terry Cooke's short story A Fairy at School. Discusses the lives of mill girls and the literary and historical significance of Cooke's work in relation to early industrial Connecticut.
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  The Windham Frog Fight

  A primary source document and historical account of the legendary 1758 Windham Frog Fight, a famous episode in local Connecticut history in which the townspeople of Windham were alarmed by a mysterious nighttime noise later attributed to frogs.
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  Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls

  A memoir by Harriet Hanson Robinson describing life as a mill girl in early nineteenth-century Lowell, Massachusetts. Presented as a primary source document with an introduction by Jamie Eves.