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Volume 12, Number 33
Civil War lecture reveals state’s important role By Everett Bishop The Citizen
More than 150 years ago, America’s deadliest war ended, taking over half a million lives with it.
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Slate School recognized for environmental design By Everett Bishop The Citizen
Slate School in North Haven recently received the Connecticut Green Building Council’s 2019 Atelier Ten Award for Excellence. Atelier Ten is a group of environmental design consultants based in New Haven. “We’re one of the most environmentally friendly schools in the country,” said Jennifer Staple-Clark,
one of the school’s founders. “So everything that was put into the buildings we made sure was red list free.” The red list includes items typically found in building supplies that may include lead, mercury and asbestos. Slate even went as far as to avoid using metal ductwork in each of its buildings, instead opting for a cloth duct system that is machine washable – a system the school has
dubbed “the cloud.” The school has committed itself to work and teach as “a part of nature” according to Staple-Clark. “We wanted the school to be in harmony with nature. We wanted this to be the healthiest environment for our students and our faculty,” she said. The 25-acre campus, located at 124 Mansfield Road, See Slate, A5
The Civil War was one of the nation’s greatest tragedies, but even in the midst of that chaos Connecticut rose up to become an industrial powerhouse with factories producing guns, uniforms and artillery for Union soldiers. Additionally, Connecticut provided a larger percentage of its populace as Union troops than any other state. On Tuesday, Oct. 29, during a presentation at North Haven Memorial Library, Hamish Lutris, associate professor of history, political science and geography at Capital Community College, educated North Haven residents about Connecticut’s role in the war as well as some lesser known facts about that time period. Here are a few of those obscure facts: Connecticut Gov. William Buckingham financed the creation of 5,000 muskets
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Buckingham enjoyed enormous wealth during his lifetime. After patenting the process of the vulcanization of rubber, he became a millionaire. When Buckingham got into office, “the state armory does have 3,000 muskets in it – and they were all from the War of 1812 – and most of them did not work at all,” Lutris said. When the state denied the governor’s proposal for it to foot the bill for new muskets, Buckingham took it upon himself to supply Connecticut with his own money.
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A Civil War re-enactor holds a rifled musket similar to the ones used during the war.