Lanterna Rally

Author: Jelle Zeilinga de Boer

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2009-07-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0819568910

This book describes how early settlers discovered and exploited Connecticut's natural resources. Their successes as well as failures form the very basis of the state's history : Chatham's gold played a role in the acquisition of its Charter, and Middletown's lead helped the colony gain its freedom during the Revolution. Fertile soils in the Central Valley fueled the state's development into an agricultural power house, and iron ores discovered in the western highlands helped trigger its manufacturing eminence. Geology not only shaped the state's physical landscape, but also provided an economic base and played a cultural role by inspiring folklore, paintings, and poems. It also describes impact of past climates, earthquakes, and meteorites on the people of that state.