If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

– Henry David Thoreau

Beautiful old map of Bristol, Connecticut from 1878

This old map shows Bristol, Connecticut as it looked in 1878.

Vintage hand-colored map of Connecticut from 1857

This beautiful hand drawn map of Connecticut was created in 1857 by Laura Roys, a student who attended Hartford Female Seminary, an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut. The map is beautifully colored, with shades of blue, orange, red, pink, yellow, and violet adorning the border of each city and town.

Iranistan, P.T. Barnum’s lost palace once located in Bridgeport, CT

P.T. Barnum, most famously known for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus…

Beautiful old map of South Coventry, CT from 1878

This vintage map shows South Coventry, CT as it looked in 1878.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, “measure up!”

If you don’t have that courage to look at yourself and say, ‘Well, I failed miserably…

Beautifully restored map of Rocky Hill, CT from 1869

Vintage landowners map of Rocky Hill, Connecticut as it used to be