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

Fascinating Pictures of Colchester Connecticut in the 1940’s

Jack Delano’s photos of Colchester, CT from the 1940’s.

15 fascinating pictures of America’s oldest amusement park in the 1940’s

Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT is America’s oldest continuously operated theme park.

Old map showing a bird’s eye view of Moosup, Connecticut in 1889

This old map shows Moosup, Connecticut in the late 19th century.

Historic landowners map of Burlington, CT from 1869

Vintage landowners map of Burlington, Connecticut as it used to be

The earliest picture of Abraham Lincoln

This daguerreotype is the earliest-known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken…

Hartford’s State Capital, Memorial Arch, and Bushnell Park

These pictures of Hartford, Connecticut were taken over the span of 20 years, from 1900 -1920.