Works Cited

Special Thanks to the following for help with the creation of this website:

  1. Brigid Guertin, Executive Director of the Danbury Museum

  2. Joretta Kilcourse, Elementary Technology Leader for Danbury Public Schools

  3. Kathy LaValley, South Street School

  4. Greg Scalzo, Danbury High School

  5. John Zilliox, Morris Street School

  6. Dr. Darla Shaw, Western Connecticut State University

  7. Ida Lucarelli, Shelter Rock

  8. Ellen Shea, South Street

  9. Christopher Gall, Park Avenue School

  10. Melissa Cook, WCSU student


Sources

  1. •Danbury Museum & Historical Society. Images of America Danbury. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2001.

  2. •Danbury Tricentennial Committee and Collins, S. (1985). Two centuries of hat making: Danbury's famous trade. Danbury Publishing Division, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.

  3. •Danbury Tricentennial Committee and Heireth, I. (1985). Names-places: How Danbury got some unusual ones. Danbury Publishing Division, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.

  4. •Danbury Tricentennial Committee and Schling, D. (1985). The untold story: Danbury's Unsung role in the revolution. Danbury Publishing Division, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.

  5. •Danbury Tricentennial Committee and Warner, T. (1985). How Danbury got to be what it is: Geography and geology. Danbury Publishing Division, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.

  6. •Devlin, W. (1984). We crown them all: An illustrated history of Danbury. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc.

  7. •Durgy, Evelyn, ed. As We Were: A Pictorial Remembrance of Old Danbury. 2nd ed. Scott-Fanton Museum Pub., 1979.

  8. •Durgy, E. ed. (1977). As We Were: A Pictorial Remembrance of Old Danbury. Danbury: CT: Danbury Scott-Fanton Museum.

  9. •Durkin, Brigid and Shaw, Darla. “Danbury History Project.” ED 598. Western Connecticut State University. Connecticut, May- June. 2003.

  10. •Fisher, L. (1965). The Hatters. NY: F. Watts.Keiler,A. (2000).

  11. •Grant, Anne. Danbury's Burning! The Story of Sybil Ludington's Ride. Walck, 1976.

  12. •"Hats off to History". Danbury News-Times, September 7, 1993.

  13. •Henderson, Debbie. The Handmade Felt Hat. Yellow Springs, Ohio: Wild Goose Press, 2001.

  14. •Images of America, Danbury. Danbury Museum & Historical Society, 2001.

  15. •Third Grade Social Studies Curriculum Committee. A Young People’s Guide to Danbury. Danbury Public Schools: Danbury, CT, 1998.\

  16. •Schling, Dorothy. The Untold Story Danbury’s Unsung Role in the Revolution. Volume 2. Danbury Publishing Division. 1985.

  17. •Warner, Truman. Danbury Tricentennial Committee Historic Booklet Series Volume 1. Danbury Publishing Division. 1983.

  18. •Warner, T. (1983). Danbury: Three hundred years of Change and Growth. Danbury Publishing Division, Ottaway Newpapers, Inc.

  19. •White, D. (1986). Heroes: A look at Black History in Connecticut. Southern New England Telephone.


Sources for Marian Anderson

  1. •Livingston, Myra Cohn. Keep on Singing: a Ballad of Marian Anderson. Holdiay House, 1994.

  2. •Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey. NY: Scribner.

  3. •McKissack, Pat. Marian Anderson: a Great Singer. Enslow, 2001.

  4. •Newman, S. (1966). Marian Anderson: Lady from Philadelphia. Philadelphia: PA, Westminster Press.

  5. •The Permanent Commission on the Status of Women. (1986). Great Women in Connecticut History. Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut.


Sources for Charles Ives

  1. •Ewen, D. Composers of tomorrow's music. NY: Dodd, 1971.

  2. •Gerstein, Mordicai. What Charlie Heard; the Story of the American Composer Charles Ives. Farrar, Straus, 2001.


Sources for Sybil Ludington

  1. •Amstel Marsha, Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride. Scholastic, 2001.

  2. •Brown, Drollene P., Sybil Rides for Independence. Ailbert Whitman & Co.,1985

  3. •Jones, Mary Elizabeth. The Midnight Ride of Sybil Ludington and The Mystery of the Statue of King George III and His Horse. Wilton, Connecticut: Pimpewaug Press, 1976.


Sources for the Ingalls Family

  1. •Anderson, William. The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. HarperCollins Publishers,1998.

  2. •Wilder, Laura Ingalls. On the Way Home, The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1962.


Internet Sources are listed on each page in the site.