After the flood
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The town of Winsted, Connecticut was almost destroyed when the rains and flooding caused by hurricanes Connie and Diane resulted in a 120-yard-wide wave that rushed down the town's Main Street. The wave tore down telephone lines, leaving the town incommunicado for 12 days, and preventing the Hughes family from receiving the incorrect message that their son Richard might be lying dead in a field in South Dakota.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2001
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The great flood of 1955
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A woman recalls the great Farmington, CT, flood of 1955, in which she witnessed not only acts of bravery but also unfathomable stubbornness. Included in the latter was a man threatening to shoot anyone who would try to rescue him from his house, which at that point was floating away.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1995
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Governor for a day
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Hiram Bingham served as governor of Connecticut for only one day before resigning in 1925. He had been elected to the Senate in a special election held shortly after he won the election for governor.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1996
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