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The Middler Archive:
Current and back issues of the SMFSD Newsletter
The most recent issues of The Middler are linked below in PDF format. In the near future earlier issues will be scanned and added to the site for form a complete archive.
And now . . . hit the links:
The Middler, Fall 2005
Contents: Triennial Meeting plans; new Middler editor; Jane Devlin's Dunham-Wilcox-Trott-Kirk web site; transcriber Coralynn Brown; Haddam & East Haddam; feature graphic - Main Street 1790; first settler profile - Thomas Allen.
The Middler, Spring 2006
Contents: The William Cornwell-Mary Hyanno conjecture; Triennial Meeting schedule of activities; economist & author Hannah McKinney and her book The Development of Local Public Services 1650-1860: Lessons from Middletown, Connecticut; feature graphic - 1836 engraving of Middletown; first settler profile - John Kirby; origins of some first settlers in Rowley, Mass.
The Middler, Fall 2006
Contents: SMFSD Triennial Meeting report; photo montage of weekend activities; walking in the footsteps of ancestors in Middletown; Hannah McKinney insights on early Middletown - continued from previous issue; Middlesex County Historical Society & its board president William Ryczek; feature graphic - views from Asylum Hill.
The Middler, Spring 2007
Contents: Frank Farnsworth Starr feature - Middletown's preeminent genealogist; new SMFSD web site; Special Collections & Archives at Wesleyan University; genealogy resources at the Middlesex County Historical Society; preservation news from Middletown; feature graphic - 3-in-1 research reference map.
The Middler, Fall 2007
Contents: Research destinations: Russell Library & Middletown Room; SMFSD web site report; Middletown's meeting house art & the "log cabin myth"; the settlement of Whitestown, N.Y., destination for many Middletown descendants; profile of Middletown historian Jessie Alsop; DNA analysis & Middletown genealogy; book review - Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes; feature graphic - The Jessie Alsop Map of Main Street, Middletown, in 1654.
The Middler, Spring 2008
Contents: Middletown's Godfrey Memorial Library and its recent addition of thousands of Middletown-related records to its online Godfrey Scholar resources; an obituary and appreciation of Gale Cornwell (1926-2007), founder of SMFSD; an article on the settlement of Stow, Ohio, a destination for numerous Middletown descendants; a book review of A Century in Captivity by Denis R. Caron; and more redrawn land grant maps based on the research of Jessie Alsop (1875-1951).
The Middler, Fall 2008
Contents: A summary of Middletown's participation in the Revolutionary War, based on the booklet prepared by noted Connecticut historian Albert E. Van Dusen in 1950; a profile of Paula Higgins, a researcher of early Middletown settlers; Godfrey Memorial Library's Middletown-related digitization initiative; excerpts from a new in-depth profile of early settler Thomas Ranney; and an article on how early Middletown inhabitants dealt with "growth issues" that are similar to those of the present day.
The Middler, Spring 2009
Contents: A lead article with details of the SMFSD Triennial Meeting in August 2009; an update on new genealogy/history Internet resources; a book review of Richard Bushman's From Puritan to Yankee; vistas to look for in Middletown; a profile of SMFSD Registrar Donald Brock; excerpts from early town records; and the outlandish story of mystery first-settler Edith Domey. This issue also includes a Triennial Meeting registration form.
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A section of the 1877 panoramic map of Middletown. (SMFSD Middler Collection)
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