Frog Hollow. Susan Campbell

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      Wesleyan University Press | Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2019 Susan Campbell

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill

      Typeset in Adobe Jenson Pro

      This book is part of HartfordBooks, a series developed through a partnership of Wesleyan University Press and the University of Hartford, and supported by Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

       wesleyan.edu/wespress/hartfordbooks

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Campbell, Susan, 1959– author.

      Title: Frog Hollow: stories from an American neighborhood / Susan Campbell.

      Description: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018033857 (print) | LCCN 2018034562 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578556 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819576200 (cloth: alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Frog Hollow (Hartford, Conn.)—History—Anecdotes. | Frog Hollow (Hartford, Conn.)—Social life and customs—Anecdotes. | Frog Hollow (Hartford, Conn.)—Biography—Anecdotes. | Hartford (Conn.)—History—Anecdotes. | Hartford (Conn.)—Social life and customs—Anecdotes. | Hartford (Conn.)—Biography—Anecdotes.

      Classification: LCC F104.H3 (ebook) | LCC F104.H3 C27 2019 (print) | DDC 974.6/3—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033857

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      Title page image: Zion Street at Russ Street. April 6, 1996. Tony DeBonee Collection, Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library

      Dedication page image: Family portrait of Constance Schiavone

      Front cover illustration: Zion Street at Russ Street, April 6, 1996, by Tony DeBonee, courtesy of Hartford History Center.

      FOR CONSTANCE HARTNETT SCHIAVONE, a beautiful Irish colleen—and my mother-in-law—who told the best Hartford stories, ever

       Contents

       AUTHOR’s NOTE | In Which the Author Explains, Why Write a Book? | ix

       INTRODUCTION | In Which the Author Explains, Why Frog Hollow? | xi

       1. THE DIFFICULT DREAM | The Babcocks Dig a Well and Launch a Newspaper | 1

       2. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EACH | Colonel Pope Comes to Town and Helps Build an Industrial Powerhouse | 10

       3. A DREAM OF SOCIAL ORDER | The Government Segregates a Neighborhood | 39

       4. THE FULLEST STATURE | Original Residents Are Pushed Out, the Neighborhood Gets a Reputation—and Everyone Is Baseball Crazy | 61

       5. TO BE RECOGNIZED | The Children of Frog Hollow Find Champions, and the Newsies Fight Back | 93

       6. EACH MAN AND WOMAN | The Reverend Pennington Is Free | 115

       7. GROWING WEARY AND MISTRUSTFUL | The Neighborhood Gets an Orphanage | 135

       8. THEY ARE INNATELY CAPABLE | Dominick Burns Opens a Bank, and Maria Sánchez Shepherds a Political Force | 139

       9. REGARDLESS OF FORTUITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | The Ghosts That Walk Frog Hollow’s Streets, and Where They’re Heading | 166

       Acknowledgments | 173

       Notes | 175

       Index | 215

       Author’s Note

      IN WHICH THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS, WHY WRITE A BOOK?

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