The Driftless Connecticut Series

The Driftless Connecticut Series is a publication award program established in 2010 to recognize excellent books with a Connecticut focus or written by a Connecticut author. To be eligible, the book must have a Connecticut topic or setting or an author must have been born in Connecticut or have been a legal resident of Connecticut for at least three years.

The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the
Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund
at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

 

Local Government in Connecticut, Third Edition:
by Frank B. Connolly, with Roger L. Kemp and Philip K. Schenck

 

Becoming Tom Thumb:
Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity
by Eric D. Lehman

 

New Haven Sentinels:
The Art and Science of East Rock and West Rock 
by Jelle Zelinga de Boer; John Wareham, photographer

 

End of the Line:
Closing the Last Sardine Cannery in America 
by Markham Starr

 

Ella Grasso:
Connecticut's Pioneering Governor
by Jon E. Purmont

 

Garnet Poems:
An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776
edited by Dennis Barone

 

Post Roads & Iron Horses:
Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
by Richard DeLuca

 

Connecticut in the American Civil War:
Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival
by Matthew Warshauer

 

Gervase Wheeler: 
A British Architect in America, 1847-1860
by Renee Tribert and James F. O'Gorman

 

Connecticut's Fife and Drum Tradition
by James Clark

 

Crowbar Governor:
The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley
by Kevin Murphy

 

For Information on The Driftless Series, established in 2009, click here.