Between the Lakes Group LLC

29/10/2022

Between the Lakes Group has been in business since 1999, and some of our offerings, particularly downloads you'll find at www.betweenthelakes.com, date from CD-ROMs of historical material we have sold for a couple of decades now. Unlike everyone else, we've never previously increased prices on what we sell. In those intervening years a lot has happened, some of which have increased our costs in ways that aren't visible to our customers....

https://btlgllc.com/sadly-some-prices-are-going-up

Sadly, some prices are going up at Between the Lakes.com -- our first-ever price increases. Increases apply to downloads only.

31/05/2022

Well, somehow we neglected to post our publication of this one on Instagram. (Easiest found on Amazon, if you’re disposed to buy a copy). The book was a bit of an experiment: using a parish church as a theme to connect the history of a locality. Sure, it’s got all the expected parish history in it, but there’s a whole lot of local history, history of the vanished iron industry of the upper Housatonic valley, of the Barnum and Richardson families, Lime Rock Park, and on and on. The full title is “Trinity Lime Rock in Context: a History” and probably the most important words in the title are “in context”.

21/05/2022

Life in Connecticut (in 1901)....

  Today in 1901, Connecticut became the first state in America to pass a law governing the speed of automobiles. According to the new law, cars were not to exceed 12 miles per hour within city…

24/04/2022

Some Connecticut history....

  In the 1630s, John Davenport, like many Puritan ministers preaching in cosmopolitan and decadent London, yearned to create a “New Jerusalem.” This “heavenly city” wou…

17/03/2022

We're happy that this book is now out, and more than a little bit proud as well.

Yes, it's the parish history of a small Episcopal church in Northwest Connecticut, but it is more than that.

The key words in the title are "In Context" -- which includes such diverse subjects as the historic iron industry of Northwest Connecticut (and elsewhere), railroad history, political history of the post-Civil War period, Lime Rock Park, assimilation of immigrants -- and that in addition to the history of a small parish church in Northwestern Connecticut that is almost 150 years old.

Why include so many subjects in a parish history? Because churches don't exist in a vacuum -- or at least this parish has not! !

You can find it on Amazon!

01/02/2022

We are happy to announce a new book by Geoffrey Brown, called Trinity Lime Rock in Context - a History. Here's some background: Nearly 30 years ago we started going to a local Episcopal church, here in Northwestern Connecticut, called Trinity Lime Rock. Lots of people don't have much to do with churches anymore. However, we had kept up churchgoing, and when we moved up here we continued....

http://btlgllc.com/trinity-lime-rock-in-context-a-history

A new book about a small Episcopal church in northwest Connecticut and -- importantly -- its context.

25/10/2021

Here's a family we knew of but knew little about. You've heard the name....

In 1780, a young man traveled from his hometown in Baden-Württemberg to London to meet his elder brother who had settled there two years previously.

22/10/2021

Our second most favorite robber baron, Collis P. Huntington!

(Our favorite is Sen. William H. Barnum, with whom Huntington had extensive business collaborations -- after all, Huntington had railroads and Barnum made railroad car wheels, so it was a great fit. The also were both Northwest Corner boys who made good on their own initiative and ingenuity.)

  Collis Potter Huntington was born today in 1822, the sixth of nine children born to William and Elizabeth Huntington of Harwinton, Connecticut. The Huntington family, owners of a farm in a s…

13/08/2021

Here's some interesting material about the early movie business -- in Upstate New York! Furthermore, it's not "just" the story of D. W. Griffith -- there's a coda on this one that involved little Neversink, NY, in 1909 and "patent detectives".

People sitting on the front porch of a Barryville home learned firsthand what movie makers in the region discovered more than 100 years ago.

04/08/2021

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03/07/2021

Some Connecticut and Pennsylvania history for today -- the Wyoming Massacre (that's the Wyoming Valley, folks!)

  Today in 1778, the Battle of Wyoming – also known as the “Wyoming Massacre” – saw Connecticut troops, Pennsylvania loyalists, British soldiers and Iroquois warriors battle in a gruesom…

02/04/2021

No particular comment necessary on this one....

Today in 1919, the medical paper “Complications of Influenza” was read to a desperately worried Hartford County Medical Society, which feared a renewed outbreak of a devastating global …

31/03/2021

Here's a resource we didn't know about!

  In 1933, Connecticut Governor Wilbur L. Cross, determined to move forward with infrastructure improvements in spite of budget constraints caused by the Great Depression, presented the State …

23/02/2021

People who know a lot about New York's Catskill mountains often draw a blank when you mention tanning (that's when you make animal hides into leather, btw) so we thought we would pass this one along today....

The Time and the Valleys Museum have announced Tannery Hides and the Beaverkill Bridge, a virtual program set for Sunday, February 28th.

21/02/2021

We thought that we really needed to repost this while telephone directories are still something most readers remember!

When's the last time you used one?

  Thanks to Connecticut inventor and innovator George Coy, the city of New Haven can lay claim to a number of “firsts” related to the early development of the telephone. Within two…

05/02/2021

Here's one you may not know....

  Today in 1918, an unlikely future war hero in the shape of a small, short-tailed puppy arrived at the front lines in France alongside the 102nd Regiment of the Yankee Division, a unit of mos…

03/02/2021

  One of the darkest days in Connecticut history occurred today in 1780, as 19-year-old Revolutionary War deserter Barnett Davenport brutally murdered his employer and his entire family in wha…

31/01/2021

  In 1860, residents living in Danbury, Connecticut banded together to build a large, earthen dam to create a reservoir that would provide a sufficient water supply for the town’s steadi…