CT
History Goes
Online
Submitted
by: HOST
GFS
LynnB@aol.com
Article
in today's paper...(Waterbury,CT,
Sunday Republican, Jan 27, 2002,
pg 10B):
"The
Connecticut Historical Society
has joined with Mystic Seaport
and the University of Connecticut
to produce a web site called
Connecticut History Online, one
of the largest online databases
of historic photographs, prints
and drawings in the world.
Together, the three institutions
have more than 450,000 historical
pictures, graphics and drawings.
Up to 14,000 images are expected
to be accessible on the site with
accompanying historical
information by mid-spring, when
the first phase of the project is
complete. The web site,
cthistoryonline.org, was launched
Thursday."
Welcome
to Connecticut History
Online
I've
taken a quick peek at the site,
and think it will be a very nice
one! I especially liked the
CLASSROOM section. I can use some
of the lesson plans with my
Charles Merriman Society,
Children of the American
Revolution! One in particular
looks most interesting. It is
called "125 Years of Childhood:
Comparing and Contrasting the
Lives of Children in
Connecticut." The students look
at pictures of the children of
years past (I loved the one of
Isabel Grinnall playing near a
coal bin) and do activities to
help expand their knowledge of
the "olden days" based on the
photographs.
One
of the extended activities
suggested in that lesson plan is
for the students to bring their
own photographs from home and
show differences or similarities
between the lives of the children
in the two photographs. Wouldn't
it be cool to have them try to
find a really old photo of their
grandparents and learn what they
could about it? It might just
spark their interest in family
history/genealogy at an age where
there are still older family
members alive to answer
questions! I wish someone had
done such a project with me when
I was in 5th grade and my REILLY
grandparents were still alive.
Then maybe I would know more
about where my Grandmother
(Kathryn Dunn McHugh)'s family
came from in Ireland, and why my
Grandfather Reilly's parents were
married in Brooklyn, NY. Was it
simply because Kate Soden
wouldn't travel back to
Philadelphia to the home of her
fiance, Thomas F. Reilly, unless
they were married? Or was there
family in
Brooklyn...?
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