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Your Douglas Library card allows you access to some of the greatest Connecticut research in the world. All you have to do is go to www.iconn.org, plug in your library card number, and a wealth of information is at your

Immigration and immigrants are hot topics in today’s world. Hebron has witnessed significant “newcomers” on basically 50-year intervals: the 1850’s; the first two decades of the 20th century; the 1950’s; and the 1990’s. Particularly interesting is the international immigrant influx

Martin Family Impacts Hebron History People have fond memories of the various Martin generations. “Oh, Marjorie Martin was our librarian for years and years, and her mother before her,” said one. “Dwight Martin was a RHAM teacher for a long

Since the Yale University Art Gallery’s reopening on 12/12/12, a “Gilead Room” has been included as part of the newly expanded and renovated galleries. How did a room from Gilead find its way to Yale? When did it “go to

They only retired from their services at the Douglas Library last October, but already Wilbur and Maralyn Porter are greatly missed by the community residents and library staff they served for 40 years. Wilbur became a member of the Library

Historian Diana Ross McCain will recount several  highlights from her book It Happened in Connecticut: From Witchcraft Trials to the Invention of Modern Football, Twenty-Five Events That Shaped the Nutmeg State. She will discuss the witchcraft prosecutions and executions that

The Reverend George Milne, minister of both the Gilead and Hebron Congregational Churches in the 1940’s and 50’s, has published a new book on Hebron history, titled “A Sixty-Year Ramble Through Gilead: A Glimpse from the Parson’s Notebook, 1940-2004.” Reverend