Download or read book Connecticut Icons written by Charles Monagan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Monagan knows Connecticut. As editor of Connecticut Magazine he has spent years discovering and describing the people, places, and things that comprise the character of his home state. With this entertaining collection of photos, anecdotes, and little-known facts, Monagan presents fifty of his favorite icons—from the hot lobster roll to the Yale Bowl, the U.S.S. Nautilus to the Merritt Parkway—and shows native and newcomer alike the independent spirit and local pride at the heart of this great state of Connecticut.