Renovations underway for Traveler's tower
One of the biggest renovation jobs in the state is currently underway on one of Connecticut's most iconic buildings.
Falcon Banding at the Travelers Tower in Hartford Ct
Baby Falcons being banded at the Travelers Tower by Julie Victoria of the DEP and Cindy King, UTC Wildlife Sanctuary Director at The Childrens Museum.
NEW Hindenburg over Hartford, Connecticut 1936 never before seen
Film of the Hindenburg flying low over Hartford, Connecticut, in October 1936. Seems to be filmed from the roof of one of the Travelers Insurance co's buildings. Visible is Travelers tower building and the now-gone WTIC radio tower. At the very end of the clip is footage of several people on the roof of the building that is on the corner of Central Row and Main Street in Hartford (imagine today workers going onto the roof of a building like that!). I bought this original reel of Kodak film via an online auction a few years ago and didn't know what it was until I brought it to a video conversion place to have it copied to a DVD. The auction had it labeled as Zeppelin over Hartford, CT 1936 but I had no idea it was the Hindenburg until I saw the actual film. Pretty good quality for the age. You can clearly read Hindenburg, the ship's numbering, and see the Olympic rings. Spooky. So I'm pretty sure no one has ever widely seen this footage before.
Downtown Hartford - Part 2 - DJI Mavic Air 4K
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state 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.
Hartford was founded in 1635 and is among the oldest cities in the United States.
Note the new Downtown UCONN Campus, Travelers Tower, Hartford Science Center, Phoenix (boat) Building, State House and Colt Armory/Dome.
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The Travelers Companies
The Travelers Companies is an American insurance company. It is the second largest writer of U.S. commercial property casualty insurance and the third largest writer of U.S. personal insurance through independent agents. Travelers is incorporated in Minnesota, with headquarters in New York City and significant operations in St. Paul, Minnesota and Hartford, Connecticut. It has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since June 8, 2009.
The company has field offices in every U.S. state, plus operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, China, Canada, and Brazil. In 2012, the company reported revenues of US $25.7 billion and total assets of US $104.9 billion.
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Penthouse amenity floor
This video displays the future amenity level and its equipments in the 777 main street building in Hartford, CT.
Consolatied Elevator At The Iroquois Hotel,NYC
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00:12:23 2 Alleged anticompetitive practices
00:13:12 3 National Football League lawsuit
00:14:02 4 Advertising
00:16:33 5 Former executives
00:17:03 6 Notes
00:17:12 7 External links
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The Travelers Companies, Inc. is an American insurance company. It is the second largest writer of U.S. commercial property casualty insurance and the third largest writer of U.S. personal insurance through independent agents. Travelers is incorporated in Minnesota, with headquarters in New York City and its largest office in Hartford, Connecticut. Travelers also maintains a large office in St. Paul, Minnesota. It has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since June 8, 2009.The company has field offices in every U.S. state, plus operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, China, Canada, and Brazil. Travelers ranked No. 106 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations with total revenue of $28.9 billion.Travelers, through its subsidiaries and approximately 14,000 independent agents and brokers, provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, government units, associations, and individuals. The company offers insurance through three segments:
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Best Attractions and Places to See in Worcester, Massachusetts MA
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Camp Courant Buddy Bash 2016 - Thank You!
We would like to wish a most heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the Hartford's Camp Courant Buddy Bash a tremendous successl Susan Lane, Director of Public Relations & Community Engagement from Hoffman Auto Group and Karen Perham-Lippman, Manager of Community Investment for Comcast New England Region had a blast as co-chairs and are already looking forward making 2017 even bigger and better! Next year will be the 123rd season for camp and we will welcome another 600-1000 children from Hartford for six-weeks of amazing summer fun and learning. Check out the video ... watch until the end so you can see all of the amazing people and companies that supported the Camp Courant Buddy Bash this year!
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WTIC Radio, 1924-1934 | Hartford, CT | Merry Madcaps, Rudy Vallée, Art McGinley, Ed Begley | 1965
To celebrate its first four decades, WTIC Radio in Hartford, Connecticut presented four episodes of “The Broadcaster at Forty,” written and produced by David Wilkinson, as special editions of Dick Bertel’s daily “Americana” program. Announcer Bob Ellsworth also participates.
This hour, which covers the years between 1924 and 1934, was broadcast on Monday, February 8, 1965. Highlights include:
• The Travelers Insurance Company’s 1924 application for WTIC’s license
• Upgrading the power from 500 to 50,000 watts, changing frequencies, sharing time with WBAL in Baltimore, and moving the transmitter to Avon Mountain
• Descriptions of the original studios and transmitting facilities at the Travelers’ building at 26 Grove Street (Bob Steele Street since 2013)
• The development of commercial advertising
• Fred Wade remembering the popularity of Norman Cloutier and the Merry Madcaps as well as how “The Wrightsville Clarion,” a comedic serial, was produced
• The 1925 inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge
• Engineer Al Jackson recalling how WTIC conducted an intense schedule of remote broadcasts
• Affiliating with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and carrying its inaugural broadcast
• Bill Hennessey interviewing singer, actor, and bandleader Rudy Vallée
• Bob Steele interviewing A.B. “Art” McGinley, the former host of “Speaking of Sports”
• Dick Bertel interviewing Leonard J. Patricelli, WTIC vice president and general manager, and Paul W. Morency, president of Broadcast Plaza Inc., both hired in 1929
• Wire services protecting newspapers from radio competition
• Oscar-winning actor Ed Begley telling George Bowe about performing on “WTIC Playhouse”
The theme music is from “The Broadcaster: A Symphonic Suite” album, composed by Robert Maxwell. It was commissioned by WTIC to dedicate the 1961 opening of its Broadcast House radio and television facility on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford.
MENTIONS
Travelers executives: Walter G. Cowles, Lawrence F. Butler
WTIC personnel: engineers J. Clayton Randall and Herman Taylor, musical directors Dana S. Merriman and Ralph L. Baldwin, business manager James F. Clancy, “The Mixing Bowl” host Florrie Bishop Bowering, conductor Moshe Paranov (co-founder of the Hartt School of Music), composer Christiaan Kriens, news director Tom Eaton, drama director Guy Hedlund, announcer Ed Anderson, writer Paul Lucas, program manager Bernard Mullins
Historical figures: Colonel William Mitchell, Governor John H. Trumbull, aircraft builder Igor Sikorksy, aviation pioneer Charles A. Lindbergh, newscaster Lowell Thomas, film director D.W. Griffith, Lindbergh baby kidnapping suspect Henry “Red” Johnson
Landmarks and institutions: West Hartford Public Schools, Hartford Public Schools, Brainerd Field airport, Hotel Bond, Joseph P. Neville’s Dancing Academy, Austin Organs, Footguard Hall, the dance pavilion at Colt Park, Club Palais Royale, Yale University, (Loew’s) Poli’s Capitol Theatre, Heublein Hotel, Bulkeley Stadium, American Industrial Bank, Hartford National Bank, The State Theatre, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), “The Hartford Players” theater group, the Hartford County Building
Musical acts: Emil Heimberger Trio; organist Walter Dawley; The Heublein Trio; The New York Symphony Orchestra; Edwin Franko Goldman’s band; trumpeter B.A. Rolfe and his orchestra; operatic baritone Titta Ruffo; pianist Harold Bauer; operatic soprano Mary Garden; Rudy Vallée and his Connecticut Yankees; composer Irving Berlin; Mike Hanapi's Ilima Islanders; Hank Keene and his Connecticut Hill Billies; The Men of Song; The Travelers Chorus; the Modern Symphonic Choir
Songs: I’ve Got a Feeling You’re Fooling, Betty Co-ed, Isn’t This a Lovely Day, Broadway Rhythm
Phillips Carlin and Graham McNamee covering the 1925 Cornell – Penn football game
Vaudeville acts: Bergen and McCarthy, Phil Baker, Jack Benny, “Sliding” Billy Watson, Harry Houdini, Will Rogers, Weber and Fields
Radio network shows: The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour, The Sealtest Show, Duffy’s Tavern, Madcap Varieties
Actors: John Barrymore, Durelle Alexander, Brad Reynolds, Michael O’Shea, Gertrude Warner, Jay Ray, Charlie Richards, Eunice Greenwood, Louis Nye
Writers: Ed Gardner, Abe Burrows, Paul Henning, Jess Oppenheimer, Frank Galen, Charlie Issacs, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
TV shows: The Ed Sullivan Show, Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, I Love Lucy
Media organizations: “The Hartford Times” newspaper; WTHT Radio in Hartford; Associated Press (AP); United Press International (UPI); International News Service (INS); Transradio Press Service (founded by Herbert Moore); WOR Radio in New York; KRLD Radio in Dallas; KTHS (now KAAY) in Little Rock, Arkansas; RCA Laboratories
Athletes: boxers Max Baer, Jack Dempsey, John Henry Lewis, Henry Armstrong; baseball players Frankie Frisch and John “Pepper” Martin, both of the St. Louis Cardinals’ Gashouse Gang
TOP 10 Tallest Buildings In Hartford U.S.A. 2019/Top 10 Rascacielos Más Altos De Hartford E.U.A.
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Ghost Hotel of Longboat Key- Clip
Two young travelers explore the ruins of a hotel that was never completed. Begun by John Ringling, it was to have been called the Ritz-Carlton. The pair look over the ruins and see other parts of Longboat Key. The male is Tony Swain, son of producer Hack Swain. Hack Swain is also the narrator of the film. The hotel was torn down shortly after the film was made and now is the site of Arvida's Longboat Key Club. Produced by Hack Swain Productions.
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Aetna Home Office Construction (1929)
Construction of Aetna's corporate headquarters on Farmington Ave. in Hartford was well underway in 1929. Watch for shots of the modest Hartford skyline, dominated by The Travelers building and the CT State Capitol.
WTIC Radio, 1935-1944 | Hartford, CT | Hurricanes, World War II, Frank Sinatra, Circus Fire | 1965
To celebrate its first four decades, WTIC Radio in Hartford, Connecticut presented four episodes of “The Broadcaster at Forty,” written and produced by David Wilkinson, as special editions of Dick Bertel’s daily “Americana” program.
This hour, which covers the years between 1935 and 1944, was broadcast on Tuesday, February 9, 1965. Highlights include:
• “History in the Headlines” hosted by Dr. Andre Schenker
• “Hull’s Hour of Cheer” sponsored by Hull Brewing Company, featuring the Four Royal Waiters, Fred Wade, and Rudy Martin and his orchestra
• Broadcast Plaza president Paul W. Morency and engineering supervisor Al Jackson recalling how WTIC managed the Great Flood of 1936 and the Great New England Hurricane of 1938
• “Stories in Song” sponsored by Malleable Iron Fittings, “the maker of the famous Branford Oil Burner”
• First application for a TV license, the launch of WTIC-FM as experimental station W1XSO, fixing WTIC’s frequency at 1080 kHz, and the introduction of the “V for Victory” time tone
• “Noontime Varieties” featuring “Bateese himself from Canada,” played by comic Harold Crimi
• The “Gene and Glenn” show starring Gene Carroll and Glenn Rowell with Carroll’s characters Jake and Lena
• “Quiz of Two Cities” sponsored by Listerine Toothpaste with anchor Bruce Kern and hosts George Bowe in Hartford and Turner Cook at the Hotel Sheraton in Springfield, Massachusetts
• Mile o'Dimes campaign for polio research in conjunction with “The Hartford Courant” newspaper
• Ed Anderson reporting on the end of trolley service
• Bob Steele reporting on the collapse of the Charter Oak Bridge
• 1942 “Sign Up for Victory” show at the State Theatre to promote the U.S. Treasury pledge campaign to purchase war bonds, featuring Frank Sinatra singing with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
• Bernard Mullins and George Bowe reporting on the 1944 Hartford circus fire which killed 167 people and injured more than 700 others
• Coverage of the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane
The theme music is from “The Broadcaster: A Symphonic Suite” album, composed by Robert Maxwell (credited during this episode as harpist Bobby Maxwell). It was commissioned by WTIC to dedicate the 1961 opening of its Broadcast House radio and television facility on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford.
MENTIONS
Institutions and landmarks: state legislature, University of Connecticut, Yankee Network, Connecticut River Valley, Dutch Point power station, Hartford Electric Light Co. (HELCO), Travelers Tower observation deck, Avon Mountain transmitter site, Travelers’ building at 26 Grove Street (Bob Steele Street since 2013), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Charter Oak Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Old State House, Niles Street Convalescent Hospital, shortwave WEKW, Yale University, U.S. Office of Censorship, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Barbour Street circus grounds
Musical acts: Joseph Blume of the Blue Room Echoes, harpist Salvatore DeStefano, composer Carmen Lombardo, Orpheus and Bacchus Club of Yale, composer Irving Berlin, trumpeter Louis Armstrong
Bandleaders: Ray Pearl, Victor Arden, Harry Horlick, Jimmy Dorsey, Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Horace Heidt, Charlie Spivak
WTIC personnel: “Songs That Never Grow Old” host John Gowen, program manager Leonard J. Patricelli, engineer Fred Edwards, music librarian Larry Kenfield, musical director Moshe Paranov (co-founder of the Hartt School of Music), organist Hal Kolb, farm director Frank Atwood, announcer Bob Ellsworth
Songs: “Dreamy Eyes,” “The Moon Got in My Eyes,” “Blue Skies,” “Song of India”
“The Shooting of Dan McGrew” poem by Robert W. Service
Communities: Longmeadow, Mass.; New Haven, New London, Meriden, and Unionville, Conn.
Historical figures: Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain; Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda; NBC newscaster Robert St. John; Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, chief press aide to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force
Historical events: Munich Agreement; 1938 and 1939 FDR telegrams to Hitler urging peace; blitzkrieg into the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg; evacuation of Dunkirk; fall of France; Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor; Christmas Eve 1941 at the White House; D-Day
Shows: “Connecticut Farm Forum,” “Strictly Sports,” “The Sabbath Message,” “Yale Interprets the News,” “Yale Reports,” “United States Coast Guard on Parade,” “Daily Tune Test,” “Rally ‘round the Bandstand,” “Connecticut Yankees at Camp Wheeler,” “The Armed Forces Club Sing,” “Uncle Jim’s Victory Garden,” “Here Comes the Band,” “Rationing,” “You’re in the Army Now,” “Submarine Patrol,” “Connecticut on the Alert,” “Wings for Tomorrow,” “Connecticut Men and Women in the War,” “Quartermaster Quarter Hour,” “Victory Hour”
“Sound and Fury: An Informal History of Broadcasting” book by Francis Chase, Jr.
WFSB Hartford, CT | Better Connecticut | 60th Anniv. of Channel 3 | Scot Haney & Kara Sundlun | 2017
On September 23, 1957, Hartford’s Channel 3, which has brandished its WFSB call letters since 1974, began broadcasting as WTIC-TV. On September 14, 2017, the hosts of “Better Connecticut,” Scot Haney and Kara Sundlun, celebrated that event's 60th anniversary by dressing in 1950s fashions. Ms. Sundlun wore a bouffant hairdo styled by Jay Roberts, the owner of Blades International Salon on the Silas Deane Highway in Rocky Hill, the town where the station has been located since 2007.
They play a clip of the most popular tune in 1957, “Tammy” by Debbie Reynolds, which was nominated that year for an Academy Award for best song. It’s from the 1957 film “Tammy and the Bachelor,” the first in a series of “Tammy” movies that were produced over the next ten years, starring Ms. Reynolds, Walter Brennan, and Leslie Nielsen. Framing 1957 further, they mention that Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United States and that Abraham Ribicoff was the Governor of Connecticut.
They also show a clip of the station’s first broadcast. In the black and white film of the live program, Paul W. Morency, the president of the Travelers Broadcasting Service Corporation (a subsidiary of the Travelers Insurance Company), the licensee of Channel 3 as well as WTIC (AM) and WTIC-FM Radio in 1957, welcomed the studio and television audience to the opening ceremonies. Broadcasting from the studios at 26 Grove Street (Bob Steele Street since 2013) that WTIC had occupied since its founding in 1925, he is introduced by WTIC staff announcer Bob Ellsworth who was Channel 3’s 11:00 p.m. news anchor from 1957 to 1967. (A bronze star recipient from World War II, his signature was saluting the camera at the end of each newscast.)
Referring to the CBS affiliate’s long list of notable alumni, they mention the “Ranger Andy” children’s show which ran from 1957 to 1968 as well as Gayle King, now the co-host of “CBS This Morning,” and Mika Brzezinski, presently the co-host of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC.
Setting-up the rest of the broadcast, they discuss two stories that they will cover later in the show: first, a University of Tasmania study that suggests that taking two-week breaks from dieting will help increase and maintain weight loss, and second, plans by the Tex-Mex fast food giant Taco Bell to open at least 300 alcohol-licensed cantina-style restaurants by 2022 that will serve sangria and beer as well as rum, vodka, and tequila slushies called “Twisted Freezes.” Mr. Haney also asserts that he does not want to be told which contestant won the 19th season of the CBS reality television series “Big Brother” the previous night, but speculates that it was the 18th season’s runner-up, Paul Abrahamian. (In fact, Josh Martinez had won.)
The show’s opening sequence shows such Connecticut landmarks as the First Church of Christ meetinghouse in Farmington, the Comstock Ferre building in old Wethersfield, the gold dome of the Capitol with the Wadsworth Atheneum’s statue of Nathan Hale in the foreground, the New London Ledge Lighthouse, the Valley Railroad train station and steam engine no. 3025 in Essex, Wickham Park in Middletown, the Main Street Creamery & Café in old Wethersfield, and Main Street in downtown Hartford with a view of the Wadsworth, the Travelers Tower, and the Gold Building at One Financial Plaza.
WFSB is owned by the Meredith Corporation which publishes Better Homes and Gardens magazine.
[NOTE: Ms. Sundlun makes a reference to Broadcast House, the building at 3 Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford that Channel 3 had occupied from 1961 to 2007. President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke there during a campaign stop on September 28, 1964. John F. Kennedy never visited Broadcast House, but he did make a memorable address from the portico of the Hartford Times Building on November 7, 1960, the eve of Election Day, as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.]
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WTIC Radio, 1945-1954 | Hartford, CT | World War II, Allen Ludden, 1953 Tornado, USS Nautilus | 1965
To celebrate its first four decades, WTIC Radio in Hartford, Connecticut presented four episodes of “The Broadcaster at Forty,” written and produced by David Wilkinson, as special editions of Dick Bertel’s daily “Americana” program.
This hour, which covers the years between 1945 and 1954, was broadcast on Thursday, February 11, 1965. Highlights include:
• Hartford mayor William Mortenson on World War II Allies’ victory in Europe
• Dr. Andre Schenker, host of “History in the Headlines,” interviewing chemical engineer Conrad G. Bacon, a Middletown, Conn. native who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee
• Bernard Mullins, Bob Steele, Floyd Richards, and Ross Miller reporting from the Old State House on people reacting to the Japanese surrender; V-J Day address by Governor Raymond E. Baldwin
• Staff pianist Laura C. Gaudet playing Franz Schubert’s “Rosamunde” on “Songs of Acadia”
• 1947 recording of assistant general manager Walter Johnson and plant manager Herman Taylor recalling WTIC’s 1924 test broadcast and Marie S. Patterson’s program “Shopping with Susan” for Betty Pattee, “Radio Bazaar” host, and her husband Floyd Pattee, a WTIC writer and producer
• Rudy Martin and his orchestra playing “Do You Ever Think of Me?”
• Bob Tyrol and Floyd Richards hosting “Cinderella Weekend” from the Orchid Room in Ryan’s Restaurant
• “Mind Your Manners,” an NBC program conducted in Hartford by WTIC announcer Allen Ludden who later hosted the CBS and ABC TV gameshow “Password” from 1961 to 1975
• Farm director Frank Atwood explaining how the WTIC Farm Youth loan program helps boys and girls purchase heifers to establish a herd
• WTIC Radio vice president and general manager Leonard J. Patricelli reminiscing about producing “Songs from New England Colleges”
• Ed Anderson reporting on the National Guard 43rd Infantry Division boarding a train to begin its deployment during the Korean War
• Interview of a survivor of an F4 tornado that struck Worcester, Massachusetts on June 9, 1953, killing 94 people and injuring more than 1,000 others
• First lady Mamie Eisenhower christening the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world’s first nuclear submarine, at the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn.
The theme music is from “The Broadcaster: A Symphonic Suite” album, composed by Robert Maxwell. It was commissioned by WTIC to dedicate the 1961 opening of its Broadcast House radio and television facility on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford.
MENTIONS
Institutions and landmarks: “The Hartford Courant” newspaper; Congress; National Safety Council; Northeastern University; Isle of Safety; State House Square; Niles Street Convalescent Hospital; University of Connecticut; tank landing ship LST-722 (USS Dodge County); United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Travelers Tower beacon; 4-H; Symphony Society of Greater Hartford; Bushnell Memorial; Monsanto Chemical Company; Webster Hall at Dartmouth College; University of Maine; Yale University; Ohio State University; Fort Pickett, Virginia; Sanford Riley Hall at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fuller Brush Company; Travelers Weather Research Center
Campaigns and awards: Mile o'Dimes for polio research, farm safety, fire safety, George Foster Peabody Citation, American Exhibition of Educational Radio Programs, Freedom Foundation Honor Medal
Historical figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt; President Harry S. Truman; Secretary of State Edward Stettinius; NBC correspondents James Stevenson, H.V. Kaltenborn, Morgan Beatty, Dr. Max Jordan, Ralph Howard Peterson; Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France; Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria; Pastor Martin Niemöller; Hjalmar Schacht, president of the German central bank; Karl Dönitz, President of Germany; Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Leading Minister of Germany; Emperor Hirohito of Japan; General Douglas MacArthur; racecar driver Mauri Rose; Senator John F. Kennedy; President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Events: V-E Day, dropping atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Potsdam Ultimatum, Indianapolis 500, Hurricane Carol, Hurricane Edna
Locations: San Francisco; West Hartford; Connecticut River; Avon Mountain transmitter site; Hanover, New Hampshire; Thames River
Shows: “Your Box at the Opera,” “Farmer’s Digest,” “Connecticut Farm Forum,” “Pioneers of Music,” “Yale Interprets the News,” “Your Senator from Connecticut”
Musical groups: Travelers Choral Club; Hartford Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Moshe Paranov (co-founder of the Hartt School of Music); Dartmouth Glee Club, directed by Paul R. Zeller; Governor’s Foot Guard Band
WTIC personnel: Professor William B. Bailey, Travelers Insurance executive and former Yale president; announcers Jean Colbert, Bruce Kern, Bob Ellsworth; engineers Herbert Wood, Al Jackson, Fred Edwards; news director Tom Eaton
Songs: “Dear Old Dartmouth (Alma Mater),” “Hanover Winter Song,” “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here”
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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.