Sandi Haber Gallery Talk, October 5, 2013
The Sheldon Art Galleries presented Sandi Haber Fifield: Between Planting and Picking.
Sandi Haber Fifield provides an overview of her work from the past 30
years and discusses influences that led to Between Planting and
Picking.
Connecticut-based photographer Sandi Haber Fifield photographed
family-owned farms across the United States from 2009 to 2010.
Her lyrical images use the agricultural landscape to create a complex
vocabulary of visual associations that speak equally about the humanity of these places and about artistic self-discovery.
Haber writes: “I’m drawn to the authenticity of small farm life that congregates along the margins in myriad cast-off moments: sunlight on muslin seed bags, wooden crates, plastic mesh, buckets, pots, hoses, a lunar planting calendar, quirky signage. As I made more
and more pictures, the candid beauty and improvised quality I discovered in the unkempt edges of these small farm environments became a focus. I hope it is within the banal details, unsuspecting and unnoticed, that a narrative unfolds, showing the beauty in the randomness and the re-purposing. To me, there is a metaphor in
the unending cycle of growth and harvest for my own image making.”
Sandi Haber Fifield received her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has widely exhibited her photographs in
galleries throughout the United States and been included in exhibitions at museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The
DeCordova Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, The Oakland Museum, The
Southeast Museum of Photography and The St. Louis Museum. Her work is held in several private and public collections, including The Brooklyn Museum, The George Eastman House, The High Museum, The Library of Congress, The Los Angeles County Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The New Britain Museum.
In 2009 Charta published Haber Fifield’s first monograph of grids and multiple image installations, Walking through the World. Between Planting and Picking (also Charta), was released in March 2011.
Additionally, Haber Fifield’s work has appeared in Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs (Anne Hoy, Abbeville, 1988), Picturing California (Therese Heyman, Oakland Museum/Chronicle Books, 1989), Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century (Olivia Lahs-Gonzales,the Saint Louis Art Museum), The Photography of Invention (Joshua P. Smith,
Merry Foresta (MIT Press) and her recently released monograph, After the Threshold (Kehrer Verlag, 2013, Vicki Goldberg, essayist).
Sandi Haber Fifield’s work is represented in New York by Rick Wester Fine Art and in Boston by Gallery Kayafas.
The not-for-profit Sheldon Art Galleries exhibits works by local, national and international artists in all media.Over 6,000 square feet of the galleries’ spaces on the 2ndfloor are permanently devoted to rotating exhibits of photography, architecture, jazz art and history, and children's art. A sculpture garden, seen from both the atrium lobby and the connecting glass bridge, features periodic rotations and installations, and the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery on the lower level features art of all media. The Sheldon actively supports the work of St. Louis artists in all mediums and features a dedicated gallery with museum-quality exhibits by St. Louis artists, past and present.
The exhibition was made possible in part by Barbara and Arthur McDonnell.
The American Musical, America
Rochelle Walker, Zoe Vonder Haar, Ben Nordstrom, John Flack and Larry Pry perform America from West Side Story as part of The American Musical at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, MO.
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Susan Stang Gallery Talk, March 29, 2016
The Sheldon Art Galleries presented Susan Hacker Stang: reAPPEARANCES in the Ann Lee and Wilfred Konneker Gallery.
reAPPEARANCES showcased a selection of eight works from St. Louis artist Susan Hacker Stang’s published book of the
same name. The book features a sequence of fifty-two photographs
that takes the viewer on a journey through the uncanny coherence of the look of the world. Shot using a small digital toy camera with a plastic lens, this series includes photographs taken in a number of countries and cities. Replete with numerous iconic sites and symbols, from the Empire State Building and Tower of Pisa, to Marilyn Monroe,
baseball, gondolas and drive-thru wedding chapels, this variety of locations makes even more apparent the serendipitous connections between different places and cultures.
Susan Hacker Stang is an American photographer, author and educator. Her work has been collected by more than twenty-five major museums and libraries around the world and appears in numerous books and magazines. Earlier publications include
Encountering Florence/Firenze un incontro; Kodachrome - End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches; and Kodachrome Notes. She currently lives in St. Louis.
Photographer Susan Hacker Stang will trace her experiences with book publication and crowdfunding in this free workshop. The artist will discuss topics such as what makes a project a book, how a successful crowd-funding campaign is designed, and what the challenges of pre-production and marketing are when publishing independently.
The not-for-profit Sheldon Art Galleries exhibits works by local, national and international artists in all media. Over 6,000 square feet of the galleries’ spaces on the 2nd floor are permanently devoted to rotating exhibits of photography, architecture, jazz art and history and children's art. A sculpture garden, seen from both the atrium lobby and the connecting glass bridge, features periodic rotations and installations, and the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery on the lower level features art of all media. The Sheldon actively supports the work of St. Louis artists in all mediums and features a dedicated gallery with museum-quality exhibits by St. Louis artists, past and present.
Financial Assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency. Support is provided by
the Regional Arts Commission and the Arts and Education Council.
Our People, Our Land, Our Images Gallery Talk, October 25, 2015
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, director, the C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, spoke on the exhibition and her own personal work included in the exhibition.
The exhibition was made possible by Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg.
Our People, Our Land, Our Images presents the works of three generations of indigenous photographers from North America, South America, the Middle East and New Zealand. They include newly discovered, nineteenth-century trailblazers, as well as established contemporary practitioners, and emerging photographers from the next generation.The fifty-one works in the exhibition tell their stories through differing photographic approaches, ranging from straightforward documentary to aesthetically altered images that combine overlays and collage. The images stand united, however, in exploring their creators’ connections to their land, community and traditions. Artists’ statements accompanying the exhibition convey a
variety of indigenous voices and concerns. The twenty-six artists in the exhibition include Cherokee Jennie Ross Cobb, the earliest known female Native American photographer. The many perspectives represented in the exhibition offer an open-ended experience that asks audiences to think about how the camera, in the hands of indigenous peoples, becomes a tool with the power to confront and analyze stereotypes, politics and histories.
Our People, Our Land, Our Images also demonstrates the longevity and continuing vitality of native photographic traditions.
The exhibition is curated by Veronica Passalacqua, curator at the N.C. Gorman Museum, Davis, California and traveled by
ExhibitsUSA, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. ExhibitsUSA sends more than 25 exhibitions on tour to more than 100 small-and mid-sized communities every year. Mid-America is the oldest nonprofit regional arts organization in the United States. More information is available at maaa.org and eusa.org.
Guest curator Veronica Passalacqua of The C. N. Gorman Museum at the University of California, Davis, originally organized this exhibition in conjunction with a conference for international indigenous photographers held at the museum. For the past fifteen years, Passalacqua has been active in the field of Native North American art as a writer, curator and scholar. Most recently, she facilitated the donation/repatriation of a significant private Lakota collection of artifacts to the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum, Pine Ridge Reservation. Previous curatorial work includes exhibitions at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; the Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock; and the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
The not-for-profit Sheldon Art Galleries exhibits works by local, national and international artists in all media. Over 6,000 square feet of the galleries’ spaces on the 2nd floor are permanently devoted to rotating exhibits of photography, architecture, jazz art and history
and children’s art. A sculpture garden, seen from both the atrium lobby and the connecting glass bridge, features periodic rotations and installations, and the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery on the lower level features art of all media. The Sheldon actively supports the work of St. Louis artists in all mediums and features a dedicated gallery with museum-quality exhibits by St. Louis artists, past and pre
sent. Financial Assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency. Support is provided by the Regional Arts Commission and the Arts and Education Council.
Jill Ahlberg Yohe Gallery Talk, April 4, 2014
The Sheldon Art Galleries presented a free gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibit, Imagining the Founding of St. Louis at the Sheldon Art Galleries.
Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Assistant Curator of Native American Art, The Saint Louis Art Museum and Caitlin Donald (Osage/Ponca), who received her Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis in the spring of 2015 , presented a talk on the Osage entitled Children of the Middle Waters: Art of the Osage Then, Now, Always.
Contributors:
Jill Ahlberg Yohe is Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum and an Adjunct Professor in the department of Art History at Washington University. She is currently writing a publication fothe Donald Danforth, Jr. collection of Plains Indian Art.
In addition to working with the Danforth Collection, Ahlberg Yohehas co-curated several small exhibitions, including an exhibition of Carl Wimar’s sketchbooks and an exhibition showcasing the collection’s holdings of Edward Curtis. Ahlberg Yohe has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico.
Caitlin Donald (Osage/Ponca) is a multicultural artist, writer, social worker and cultural ambassador. Raised in Portland and educated at Portland State University, Donald moved to the Great Plains to familiarize herself with the land of her ancestors. She comes from a line of Osage and Ponca dancers, leaders and creative minds. Donald
has supported Native people through her work at the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (Portland, OR), the Indian Center. Inc. (Lincoln, NE), the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies (St. Louis, MO) and, most recently, at the National Indian Child Welfare Association (Portland, OR). She will receive her Masters in Social Work from Washington University in
St. Louis this Spring.
The exhibition, catalogue and its programs are made possible by Mary Pillsbury Fine Jewelry Company, Ameren, Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum, Eleanor J. Moore, the Ed and H. Pillsbury Foundation, the Bannister Family and Barbara and Arthur McDonnell.
Brian Hamill Gallery Talk, June 30, 2016
The exhibition was made possible by Capes Sokol.
This exhibit by New York-based photographer Brian Hamill features some of the most fascinating and acclaimed actors, musicians and film directors of the past 40 years, some taken early in their careers. These include Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Elia Kazan, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Christopher Walken, and many other luminaries. Also on view are photographs that Hamill made as the set photographer on legendary films like Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bulland Woody Allen’s Manhattan, a rare group of images made of John Lennon in his Bank Street apartment in 1972, and on the rooftop of his apartment building and inside his two apartments in The Dakota in 1975. Another series of photographs focuses on the heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali during the height of his phenomenal career. Hamill says of his work “As my most important inspiration, and great photographer, Henri-Cartier Bresson once said: “I have always tried to capture “the decisive moment”’with my photographs. Whether it is the dramatic point of a scene on a movie set or the essence and sparkle of an individual in a photojournalistic portrait or an event, I look to capture a defining moment.”
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Brian Hamill studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In the mid-1960s, he began his long career as a photojournalist covering everything from the rock & roll scene and politics, to entertainment and sports (especially the boxing world). In the late 1960s, Hamill worked for a few years as an assistant to several top fashion photographers. He traveled to Northern Ireland in the early 1970s to photograph the Troubles for The New York Times Magazine, and simultaneously widened his photojournalistic scope into a unit still photographer on movie sets. Since then he has worked as a still photographer on over 75 movies including 26 Woody Allen films, resulting in the much acclaimed coffee table photo book titled Woody Allen At Work: The Photographs of Brian Hamill (Harry N. Abrams, 1995). Allen says of Hamill’s work, “His currency is knowledge, information, connections, street smarts. There’s not a person he doesn’t know or he doesn’t have the skinny on or know about...It’s really quite astonishing.”
Hamill’s work has also appeared in numerous other books and publications and in many group and solo exhibitions including
a one-man show at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1995. He has also had many solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Santa Fe and Austin that included images of John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Robert DeNiro from Raging Bull and Woody Allen from Manhattan and Annie Hall. Hamill’s fine art photography is represented in numerous private collections throughout the US and Europe. A self-proclaimed “devoted and fiercely loyal New Yorker,” Hamill resides in New York City.
The not-for-profit Sheldon Art Galleries exhibits works by local, national and international artists in all media. Over 6,000
square feet of the galleries’ spaces on the 2nd floor are permanently devoted to rotating exhibits of photography, architecture, music art and history and children’s art. A sculpture garden, seen from both the atrium lobby and the connecting glass bridge, features periodic rotations and installations, and the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery on the lower level features art of all media. The Sheldon actively supports the work of St. Louis artists in all mediums and features a dedicated gallery with museum-quality exhibits by St. Louis artists, past and present. Financial Assistance to the Galleries are provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency and by the Regional Arts Commission and the Arts and Education Council.
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Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future Panel Two: Modernism and Its Discontents
From the Civil War to the recent troubles in Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri is a city that has long been a site for conflict, division, and violence. It also has hosted an array of legal, political, social, and design experiments intended to transcend its contested present and past. With this forum, jointly mounted with the Sam Foxx School of Design at Washington University, we seek to stimulate a conversation about the city’s history and its present conditions, using methodologies and questions drawn from architecture, design, and planning as well as the arts, humanities and social sciences. The aim is to explore and debate issues of injustice, inequality, and racial exclusion in ways that have broader resonance for urban America and will open new terrains for constructive action. Topics include the history of modernist planning, the urban impacts of post-civil war politics and governance, the social and spatial correlates of racial exclusion, and the planning and design responses that have been proposed to counter these conditions.
Open to the public with a keynote on Wednesday evening and subsequent panels showcasing the perspectives of a wide array of actors and institutions who have made cities such as St. Louis what they are today; closing on Friday with an array of GSD-based exhibitions, projects, and presentations from GSD students and faculty.
Organized by Diane Davis, chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD, with:
Eve Blau, adjunct professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD
Sylvester Brown, Journalist, St. Louis
Daniel D’Oca, Associate Professor in Practice of Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD; co-founder of Interboro Partners
Adrienne Davis, Vice Provost and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis
Jill Desimini, assistant professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD
Catalina Freixas, assistant professor of architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Antonio French, Alderman of the 21st Ward, City of St. Louis
Margaret Garb, professor, Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis
Colin Gordon, professor, Department of History at University of Iowa
Toni Griffin, professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD
Joseph Heathcott, associate professor of urban studies, The New School/Parsons School of Design
Patty Heyda, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Walter Johnson, professor, Department of African and African American Studies, and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University
Eric Mumford, Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Jamilah Nasheed, Missouri State Senator
Jason Q. Purnell, assistant professor, Brown School, and faculty scholar in the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis; and head of the “For the Sake of All” initiative
Ken Reardon, director of the Department of Urban Planning and Community Development at University of Massachusetts Boston
M. K. Stallings, Founder of UrbArts
Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor of art, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Willis, Architect, MWA Architects
Heather Woofter, Professor of Architecture and Chair of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
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I am a Baseball Player, Poetry from Lindbergh's 2016 Fine Arts Festival
A student reads his personal poetry at the annual Fine Arts Festival
Subways Are for Sleeping / Only Johnny Knows / Colloquy 2: A Dissertation on Love
Subways Are for Sleeping is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The original Broadway production played in 1961-62.
The musical was inspired by an article about subway homelessness in the March 1956 issue of Harper's and a subsequent 1957 book based on it, both by Edmund G. Love, who slept on subway trains throughout the 1950s and encountered many unique individuals. With the profits from his book, Love then embarked on a bizarre hobby: over the course of several years, he ate dinner at every restaurant listed in the Manhattan yellow pages directory, visiting them in alphabetical order.
After two previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, opened on December 27, 1961 at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 205 performances. The cast included Orson Bean, Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Gordon Connell, Grayson Hall, and Green's wife Phyllis Newman (whose costume, consisting solely of a towel, was probably Freddy Wittop's easiest design in his distinguished career), with newcomers Michael Bennett and Valerie Harper in the chorus.
Subways Are for Sleeping opened to mostly negative reviews. The show already was hampered by a lack of publicity, since the New York City Transit Authority refused to post advertisements on the city's buses and in subway trains and stations for fear they would be perceived as officially sanctioning the right of vagrants to use these facilities as overnight accommodations. Producer David Merrick and press agent Harvey Sabinson decided to invite individuals with the same names as prominent theatre critics (such as Walter Kerr, Richard Watts, Jr. and Howard Taubman) to see the show and afterwards used their favorable comments in print ads. Thanks to photographs of the seven critics accompanying their blurbs (the well-known real Richard Watts was not African American), the ad was discovered to be a deception by a copy editor. It was pulled from most newspapers, but not before running in an early edition of the New York Herald Tribune. However, the clever publicity stunt allowed the musical to continue to run and it eventually turned a small profit.
Newman won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and nominations went to Bean for Best Featured Actor and Kidd's choreography.
Kansas | Wikipedia audio article
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Kansas (listen) is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the (south) wind although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states with a population of 2,911,641. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,041 feet (1,232 meters).
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214th Commencement Exercises of Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College conferred 472 bachelor of arts degrees to the Class of 2019 during its 214th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 25, 2019.
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Kansas (listen) is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the (south) wind although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states with a population of 2,911,641. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,041 feet (1,232 meters).
List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:36 1 Politics and public service
00:01:47 1.1 United States
00:01:56 1.2 International
00:02:05 2 Architecture and design
00:07:01 3 Business and entrepreneurship
00:07:11 3.1 Computers and Internet
00:16:00 3.2 Engineering
00:19:20 3.3 Manufacturing and defense
00:21:56 3.4 Finance and consulting
00:24:04 3.5 Health care and biotechnology
00:24:51 3.6 Miscellaneous
00:27:53 4 Education
00:37:18 5 Humanities, arts, and social sciences
00:41:06 6 Science and technology
00:59:37 7 Sports
01:00:51 8 Miscellaneous
01:02:40 9 Nobel laureate alumni
01:03:14 10 Astronaut alumni
01:03:24 11 See also
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This list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni includes students who studied as undergraduates or graduate students at MIT's School of Engineering; School of Science; MIT Sloan School of Management; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; School of Architecture and Planning; or Whitaker College of Health Sciences. Since there are more than 120,000 alumni (living and deceased), this listing cannot be comprehensive. Instead, this article summarizes some of the more notable MIT alumni, with some indication of the reasons they are notable in the world at large. All MIT degrees are earned through academic achievement, in that MIT has never awarded honorary degrees in any form.The MIT Alumni Association defines eligibility for membership as follows:
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All persons who have received a degree from the Institute; and
All persons who have been registered as students in a degree-granting program at the Institute for (i) at least one full term in any undergraduate class which has already graduated; or (ii) for at least two full terms as graduate students.
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00:01:41 1 History
00:02:10 1.1 Colonial Hartford
00:05:22 1.2 19th century
00:05:51 1.2.1 Political turmoil
00:07:08 1.2.2 Industrialization and the Colt legacy
00:13:11 1.2.3 Rise of a major manufacturing center
00:17:18 1.3 20th century
00:19:19 1.4 21st century
00:20:18 2 Geography
00:21:23 3 Climate
00:23:58 4 Demographics
00:27:03 5 Government
00:28:09 5.1 City council
00:28:18 5.2 Emergency services
00:29:08 6 Neighborhoods
00:31:24 7 Economy
00:33:36 8 Media
00:34:56 9 Education
00:35:05 9.1 Colleges and universities
00:36:13 9.2 Primary and secondary education
00:37:34 10 Transportation
00:37:43 10.1 Highways
00:39:52 10.2 Rail
00:40:37 10.3 Airports
00:41:32 10.4 Bus
00:43:17 10.5 Bicycle
00:44:14 11 Culture
00:44:23 11.1 Cuisine
00:46:50 11.2 Points of interest
00:55:20 11.3 Parades
00:56:06 12 Sports
00:57:02 12.1 Former teams
00:58:04 13 Recent developments
01:04:07 14 Notable people
01:07:42 15 Sister cities
01:07:56 16 See also
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Hartford is the capital city of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. The city is nicknamed the Insurance Capital of the World, as it hosts many insurance company headquarters and is the region's major industry. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford area of Connecticut.
Hartford was founded in 1635 and is among the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the nation's oldest public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest continuously published newspaper (the Hartford Courant), and the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford Public High School). It also is home to Trinity College, a private liberal arts college, and the Mark Twain House where the author wrote his most famous works and raised his family, among other historically significant attractions. Mark Twain wrote in 1868, Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief.
Hartford was the richest city in the United States for several decades following the American Civil War. Today, it is one of the poorest cities in the nation, with 3 out of every 10 families living below the poverty threshold. In sharp contrast, the Greater Hartford metropolitan area is ranked 32nd of 318 metropolitan areas in total economic production and 8th out of 280 metropolitan statistical areas in per capita income.Census estimates since the 2010 United States Census have indicated that Hartford is the fourth-largest city in Connecticut, behind the coastal cities of Bridgeport, New Haven, and Stamford.