Downtown New London
Amtrak station designed by Richardson
station entrance
Block Island Ferry
Thames River bridges in the background
Fishers Island Ferry
Fishers Island is a part of New York State, off the Connecticut coast in Long Island Sound
Eugene O'Neill as a lad in New London
O'Neill was educated in Catholic
schools until, as a teenager, he insisted on attending a nonreligious boarding
school. He spent his boyhood summers at the family's summer home in New London,
Connecticut, the setting of several of his plays. O'Neill's mother had become
addicted to morphine after being prescribed it while giving birth to him, and
when he was 15 years old, O'Neill discovered his mother's addiction. He then
entered an emotionally turbulent period characterized by drunken sprees,
including one for which he was thrown out of Princeton University. Despite his
problems with alcohol, O'Neill was a voracious reader. He especially liked
Irish-born writer George Bernard Shaw, Russian political activist Emma Goldman,
and German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Text from Microsoft Encarta
Nathan Hale Schoolhouse
Hale, Nathan (1755-76), hero of the
American Revolution, born in Coventry, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College
(now Yale University). He taught school from 1773 until shortly after the
outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, when he became a lieutenant in the
Continental Army. The following year he was promoted to captain. While stationed
near New York City under the command of the American officer Major Thomas
Knowlton, Hale volunteered, in early September 1776, to perform spy duty behind
the British lines on Long Island. Disguised as a schoolmaster, he secured vital
military information, but on September 21, before he could return to safe
territory, he was captured. The next morning he was hanged in New York City by
the British as a spy. His last words are supposed to have been: "I only regret
that I have but one life to lose for my country."
now located next to the Soldier's memorialal
to the sailors
building facade
detail of the bracket
became famous in the 70's
when the nipples were painted bright red
theater
former school