Connecticut

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifth in a series of painting for</span><br />
AMERICAN HERITAGE </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In 1639 an Englishman named Lion Gardiner singled out a piece of the New World and removed his family thereto—his very own island off the Connecticut coast. And despite invasions of pirates, treasure hunters, and British soldiers, Gardiners Island has remained in the hands of that family ever since. Because of Lion’s shrewd investment his descendants have indeed been</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Connecticut photographer’s record of life in a shipbuilding town</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The years that the famous writer spent in their town were magic to a young boy and his sister.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The little town of Lebanon, Connecticut played a larger role in the Revolution than Williamsburg, Virginia did. And it’s all still there.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Wherever you travel in this country, you have a good chance of bringing a piece of the past home with you.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">To the end of his life, America’s most notorious traitor believed that he was a primary hero of the Revolution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For 150 years, a crenelated Gothic Revival castle in Connecticut has housed an art collection that was astonishing for its time, and remains so.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A Connecticut seafaring town has held off all challenges to its essential character for three centuries.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How a highly historic 18th-century Connecticut house learned to live in harmony with a 20th-century garden that is the only surviving American design of a great British landscape architect.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">COLLINSVILLE, CONNECTICUT RETAINS ALL THE EARMARKS OF ITS 19TH-CENTURY VIGOR AND MANY DESCENDANTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO FUELED IT.</span></p>