It Happened in Connecticut tells twenty-seven true tales of famous--and infamous--people and events from the state's past, ranging from witchcraft trials to the Wiffle ball, from mass murder for profit to the modern game of football.
Diana Ross McCain has written about Connecticut’s past for more than thirty-five years. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history, and a master’s degree in library science She was on the staff of the Connecticut Historical Society for twenty-five years. A frequent contributor to Early American Life and Connecticut magazines and other publications, McCain wrote the award-winning publication To All on Equal Terms, the story of Connecticut’s official state heroine, Prudence Crandall. She is the author of Thy Children’s Children: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Five Generations of a New England Grassroots Dynasty, the Lyman family of Middlefield, Connecticut’s, Lyman Orchards. She lives in Durham, Connecticut.
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“Thank you to Diana McCain for these twenty-five forays into the big house of Connecticut history. Her writing is clear and the episodes well chosen. Taken together, they prove that what I didn't know about my own state could fill a book.”—Charles Monagan, editor of Connecticut Magazine and author of Connecticut Icons
