Night Boat to New York - Hesselberg, Erik
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Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days - when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. Steamboating not only brought people and goods--Colt's firearms and Essex's pianos--down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America's inland "Spa Culture" transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.…mehr

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Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days - when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. Steamboating not only brought people and goods--Colt's firearms and Essex's pianos--down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America's inland "Spa Culture" transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
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Erik Hesselberg has been writing about the Connecticut River for 20 years, first as an environmental reporter for the Middletown Press, and after as executive editor of Shore Line Newspapers in Guilford, where he oversaw 20 weekly newspapers from Old Lyme to Stratford, CT. He also created the popular Shoreview weekly and River & Shore magazine. He's a regular contributor to "Voices on the River," a website that devoted to unknown aspects of Connecticut River history. He lives in Haddam, CT.