This was clearly a labor of love for Dr. Frost. He winds his way through the entire history of the Country Club of Farmington and dots his tale with anecdote and data. It is an excellent work to learn about the sociology and growth of the game of golf and the country club scene as we enter the era of Tiger. This would be an interesting study for a sociology or history or civics class or just an enjoyable read for devotees of golf.

A great history book filled with wonderful stories arranged in a line by line, depot by depot format with maps, mileage and a photo from each depot. If you're a steam engine buff this book is a must. Many of the photos are from private collections, you probably won't find them anywhere else.

This book is excilent reading and is very informitive. It also is a helpful tool in family research this book has all the answers and more, I know that if you choose to read this book you will not only enjoy it you will have a great knowlage of your family history.

This book compares favorably to The Shipping News and should have had more press. It is a delightful tale of a town through the eyes of the current generation and the woes of the previous one. The slimy and the sublime coexist in the small town that sits next to disaster and eats with it, drinks with it and revels in its lunacy. The watershed that feeds this lunacy could well be said to play a major role in its fabulous tale. Malone has done an excellent job.

"Domesticating the Street" tells the story of the city of Hartford as it developed in the 19th century from a Yankee, homogenous place to a bustling, highly diverse, challenging salad bowl of immigrants working hard to survive and come to terms with their new world. The book reveals the story of the prostitutes who had claimed an area not far from the Old State House; and the "newsies," immigrant children who sold newspapers in flagrant disregard for Yankee strictures about domesticity, care of children, family structure, or mingling with strangers. It's a great book, one of the few about Hartford that is in print. It was thoroughly researched, nicely cited, and is a mainstay for classes and individuals studying the history of one of America's oldest towns.

As a college art history major, an intern at a house museum, and having worked on the restoration of several early Connecticut homes, I've found this book indespensible and one of my most important resources. It's straight-forward, well-organized, and includes everything from building techniques to decorative hardware to the history behind styles. The detailed illustrations make it especially easy to understand. If there is one book a person interested in early American architecture should buy, it's this one.

I found this book to be very well organized and most informative. Sources for the references were well documented. My FINCH family relatives were mentioned in many places, as were many other original Stamford families. The history of Stamford was described in good detail. In the back of the book are genealogies of selected families. A great source for details of your ancestors.

For those interested in the developmental history of ambulance/EMS systems and the state of prehospital care across North America in the 1970's, this is a steriling account. While this book details Connecticut's struggle to combat death with new ideas and systems, it mirrors most other jurisdictions in North America. Detailed areas of funding and finance, logistics and operations, and legislation make this book a good resource for supervisors, administrators and politicans. This should be required reading for every mayor, councilor, and health committee chairman. I find it amazing today (Jan-2000), the number of communties and jurisdictions across North America who are still struggling with many of the prehospital care issues encountered in the 1970's that are described in this book. Some of the same (decision making) mistakes are being made today due to a lack of (good) knowledge as well as misleading information. Given the volumes of ambulance/EMS research, its amazing.

This work was both fact-filled and very enjoyable. As an early history of Torrington it explains how and why the "Torrington Green" area became the dominant economic and social center of town, a fact which most residents, including many who now live in the area, should become more familiar with. The people in this book, gone now for more than a century and a half, come to life in a way that makes them seem like your neighbors. This book ties together a lot of information from the days of the first settlers of town to the days when the industrial revolution transformed Torrington from an agricultural hill town to a booming river town. I have studied a lot of the people mentioned in this book, and while I like all the local histories, this is the best one written on Torrington and deserves to be on your book-shelf.

This book contains large volumes of information of the early settlers of Milford from the Colonial period. Many families are included which have ties to Hertfordshire, England. Some family names include: "Deacon" George Clarke, "Farmer" George Clarke, Baldwin, Platt, Gunn, Prudden, Beardsley, and Treat.

Genealogies are easy to read and reference.