{"id":256,"date":"2010-10-22T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:50:17","slug":"256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"LHS Archives Inform New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_255\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255\" title=\"washburn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/washburn.bmp\" alt=\"washburn\" width=\"480\" height=\"349\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From The Monitor, November 6, 1799<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another story from Litchfield is making the news, thanks in part to resources in the Historical Society&#8217;s Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library.\u00a0 Fordham University Professor Doron Ben-Atar was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/campus_resources\/enewsroom\/inside_fordham\/october_18_2010\/in_focus_faculty_and\/professor_researches_77369.asp\">interviewed<\/a> about a new book he has co-authored with Richard Brown of the University of Connecticut entitled, <em>The Beast with Two Backs: Sexual Transgression in Early New England<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Articles from the Litchfield Enquirer, as well as documents from the collection like the order for execution pictured below help inform scholarship.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_259\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259\" title=\"Order\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Ordersm.jpg\" alt=\"Court order to execute Gideon Washburn\" width=\"385\" height=\"640\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Court order to execute Gideon Washburn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The newspaper article explains that the execution was delayed.\u00a0 Washburn actually died in prison prior to the rescheduled execution date.\u00a0 Archives contain all kinds of evidence of human activity.\u00a0 Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/campus_resources\/enewsroom\/inside_fordham\/october_18_2010\/in_focus_faculty_and\/professor_researches_77369.asp\">the article<\/a> for more details about the case and why it was significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another story from Litchfield is making the news, thanks in part to resources in the Historical Society&#8217;s Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library.\u00a0 Fordham University Professor Doron Ben-Atar was interviewed about a new book he has co-authored with Richard Brown of the University of Connecticut entitled, The Beast with Two Backs: Sexual Transgression in Early New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}