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Hale and a friend, Sergeant Stephen Hempstead, went to Norwalk, Conn. "Capt. Hale had changed his uniform for a plain suit of citizen's brown clothes," the sergeant recalled later, "with a round broad-brimmed hat; assuming the character of a Dutch schoolmaster." Before they parted company, Hale left all his valuables and papers, except for his Yale diploma (which he needed to establish his disguise) with the sergeant. Then a friendly sea captain ferried him across Long Island Sound to Huntington, and left...
...From that point until his death, the story of Nathan Hale is misted over with legend. It is certain that he wandered through the enemy lines for at least a week and reached Manhattan Island (the lower part of which the British had captured since Hale left Norwalk), that he collected detailed maps of fortifications, with Latin notations in the margins, and hid them under the inner soles of his shoes. Just how he was captured is unknown, but one story put it that he was recognized by a Tory relative as he sat in Rachael Chichester's tavern...
...Jackson Kemper (1789-1870) son of a customs receiver for New York City. He lived in Philadelphia with his first wife, and in Norwalk, Conn, with his second, but he loved the Western frontier. He became the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, with jurisdiction over Missouri and Indiana. For 25 years Bishop Kemper, with his Greek New Testament, was a familiar figure preaching in Wabash River barrooms and swapping anecdotes with trappers along the Missouri. By the time he died, he had established seven dioceses, founded Kemper College, Nashotah House, Racine College, ¶ Daniel Sylvester Tuttle...
Object Lesson. In Norwalk, Conn., City Councilmen Herman Cinque Jr. and William Murray drew up alongside a police car at 3 a.m.. delivered a brief lecture on the duties of the constabulary, were promptly arrested for disturbing the peace...
Stop & Go. A radar system to control stoplights and avoid traffic tie-ups was tested in Norwalk, Conn, by New Haven...