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Article: Antiques.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut--anyway, just over the river, in the country. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees--and practical; yes, and nearly barren of sentiment, I suppose--or poetry, in other words.
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889
Connecticut is the third smallest state in the Union, just behind Rhode Island and Delaware. As early as 1760 Connecticut was compared to "a cask of good liquor, tapped at both ends, at one of which Boston draws, and New York at the other, till little is left in it but lees and settlings." Nonetheless, Connecticut Yankees were people of steady ...