Culture

This section on what we loosely describe as "Culture" includes art, architecture, literature, and music. These fields know no state lines, and most of the work published is not place-specific. Thus we have included only the most general sort of references or those which have a particular Connecticut emphasis. For instance, a piece about Sinclair Lewis at Yale is omitted because it doesn't really tell us anything about Connecticut. But works on Mark Twain's circle in Hartford are included because that was a peculiarly local phenomenon. One general aid to study in this area is Frederick Fairchild Sherman, Early Connecticut Artists.... (New York: privately printed, 1925), which consists of lists of architects, painters, bookbinders, combmakers, glassworkers, potters, shipbuilders, silhouette cutters, and craftsmen in twelve other categories.