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Published February 11. 2021 2:07PM
John Steward, Special to The Times
In my tenacious quest to defy the onslaught of age, I often bicycle throughout southeastern Connecticut. Sometimes I head to Connecticut College for a therapeutic rendezvous with youth.
However, in order to reach such enlightenment, I must travel the spookily named Gallows Lane off Bloomingdale Road in Waterford. Gallows Lane has an aura, due either to its name, its ghostly emptiness, or my imagination. The clicking of my bicycle’s drive train, normally dim, suddenly seems intrusively loud in the strange stillness.
I’ve pedaled it many times, sensing the eery chill of a dark past, fighting the urge to change gears and flee. I unavoidably consider the origin of its name every time.
Ben Franklin’s “Liberty Snake,” first printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754.
Published January 12. 2021 8:00AM
John Steward, Special to The Times
Squeezed between the revolutionary hotbeds of New York and Boston, New London and Groton in the 1700s may have been small ports, but we played on the big stage, helping to bring the segregated colonies together in unity, strengthening the country in preparation for war.
After Parliament enacted the reviled Stamp Act in 1765, the wild Sons of Liberty held two December meetings in a New London tavern, the first actions in organizing all the colonies in the buildup to revolution. We were already up in arms over the Sugar Act and the Currency Act, and now we were becoming national players, dangerously hosting and abetting anarchy.
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