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Windham And Willimantic - Couverture souple

Robillard, Ron

 
9780738537931: Windham And Willimantic
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0738537934 ISBN 13 : 9780738537931
Editeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2005

Synopsis

Windham and Willimantic is the story of a town built on waterpower and imagination. While rivers provided power for local industries, imagination made the town a national innovator in typography, papermaking, and textile manufacturing. This is where the first papermaking machinery in the country was made. This is the home of the American Thread Company, which grew from one of the first successful makers of cotton thread into an enterprise occupying one million square feet of factory space spread over forty acres. Windham and Willimantic, however, is not all about work. In this volume learn how an eighteenth-century embarrassment became a symbol of civic pride; meet two movie stars who dropped in when their airliner made an emergency landing at the local airport; and join Willimantic's Fourth of July Boom Box Parade, where everyone is a participant.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ron Robillard, a native of Windham County, has a degree in English from the University of Connecticut and has edited two newspapers in Willimantic, a weekly and the daily Chronicle.

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Éditeur
Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0738537934
ISBN 13 
9780738537931
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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