Linda Lear Center Digital Collections and Exhibitions

Friends, from left, Eric Campbell, Darius Dozier, and Liz-Sola Francilon work on digging a trench for a fence on Thursday, July 12, 2018 at the McDonald Park Community Garden in New London

Alicia McAvay, Executive Director of FRESH, explains weeding a raised bed growing peas to student volunteers at New London High School, from left, Kethia St. Hilaira, Sylvia Guijarro-Sines, obscured left, and Alysia Sanchez, right, in the FRESH outdoor classroom garden at the school

Congregation Beth El Relocates

The Congregation's original home

Gallery Yoga

City Hall, New London, Conn

Entrance Riverside Park, New London, Conn.

Shore at Riverside Park, New London, Conn

William Ingram, 12th C.V.I., February 21, 1862

William Ingram writes to his wife about Camp Lyon and his inability to make a final visit home before deployment to Mississippi because he hasn't been paid and can't afford the trip.

Cornelius Gold, 6th C.V.I, August 1863

Cornelius Gold writes to his mother about camp life in New Haven and being able to get leave to visit family in the area.

Lucy Curtiss, Warren, Conn., October 12, 1862

Lucy Curtiss writes to her brother Homer of life at home, the lack of reliable news about the war, and her happiness at hearing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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