Word: haddam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Haddam, Conn...
Nathan graduated from Yale at 18 and became a teacher. For a while he was the schoolmaster at Haddam Landing on the Connecticut River; later he moved to New London, where in the summer mornings he taught a class of girls from 5 to 7 a.m. He was happy in his work, but a few weeks after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, he decided to join the Army and was commissioned a lieutenant. "I have thought much of never quitting it [teaching] but with life," he wrote the New London school trustees, requesting release from his contract...
After analyzing their population trends, more than half the towns found they would have to do some building. Farmington, for instance. decided it needed 18 new classrooms. East Haddam set out to build a new high school. To advertise its own plight, Stamford, which has hundreds more pupils than it has proper facilities for, put on a public mock trial: the People v. Miss Double Sessions...