Presented with Pride by The Connecticut Store
Connecticut Icons
50 Symbols of the Nutmeg State
by Charles Monagan
Editor of Connecticut Magazine 
Charlie Monagan knows Connecticut. As editor of Connecticut Magazine he has spent years
discovering and describing the people, places and things that help define the character of his home state.
Using his remarkable wit as the thread, this book weaves together 50 different essays. Each
 alive with  anecdotes and  little known facts.
Each story reveals the history of something remarkably Connecticut. Together
they tell the story of Connecticut.
 From Wiffle Ball, to Itch Hazel, Yale Bowl to Cornwall Bridge, Blackie's Hot dogs, and Silly Putty
you can visit Connecticut from your arm chair. Once you pick it, you'll be back time and time again.

  Connecticut Icons - Hardcover 103 pages    $16.95
The list of all 50 icons is shown below.
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Charlie Monagan's Connecticut Icons
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The Thimble Islands           Dinosaur Mural            Candlewood Lake
Mounds Bar                     Berlin Turnpike            Blue-Blazed Trails
Chester-Hadlyme Ferry        The Colt .45               UConn Dairy Bar
The Sleeping Giant             The Glass House           Hot Lobster Roll
Church on the Green           Wiffle Ball                 The Nautilus
The Top Sider                  Hammonasset Beach       Waterbury Train Tower
Hot Dogs                        The Wildcat               The Hitchcock Chair
Pepperidge Farm White         Hueblein Tower            Raggedy Ann
American Shad                  Steamed Cheeseburger    Red Barn
Yale Bowl                        Eastern Oyster            Stone Walls
PEZ                              Connecticut Guide         Travelers Tower
Cornwall Bridge                  Post Road                 Gillette Castle
Silly Putty                       White Clam Pizza         The Sunfish
West Rock Tunnel               Louis' Lunch               Town Greens
Charles W. Morgan              State Capitol              Merritt Parkway
Witch Hazel                     Tobacco Sheds            Castle Craig
Lighthouses