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We visited a place called "City Steam" were beer is produced and sell. Is a bar with a comedian show stage in its basement. It was fun!

We visited the Old State House,1796.

It's the historic building where legislation and Judgments were done. This courthouse is known for saving and freeing a group African people who survived a ship trip into which they were kidnapped by the Spanish, who wanted to sell them later in the Caribbean, as slaves.

The building has a Museum inside, which is a replica of the Museum that the State House had on the 18th century, showing dissected and not common animals. That was an attraction. Dollars of that time.

Animals with two heads was a curiosity.

A giant Roach.	Punishment of that time

This is a view from the Old State House

We also visited the

Harriet Beecher Stowe House

In Hartford, Connecticut, we visited the Mansion of an inspiring and wonderful woman, who died in 1896. Her name was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Probably Mark Twain felt inspired by her writings. He became her neighbor, and before he became known as a great writer (with his books (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn) , she was well known by the whole country as the women who started the controversy against slavery, which started in the civil war.

Stowe chose to write Uncle Tom's Cabin because her sister-in-law urged her to use her skills to aid the cause of abolition. The novel was incredibly popular and sold more copies than any book before it, with the exception only of the Christian Bible. Uncle Tom's Cabin made her an international celebrity and a wealthy woman.

Stowe's novel created such a controversy that when she was introduced to President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, he is said to have greeted her with the words: "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" Her literary success enabled her to meet the rich, famous, and most powerful people of her time.

"...as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity..."

Deeply religious, Harriet wanted ministers to preach against slavery, but few would. Seeing church-going northern factory owners buy slave-raised cotton for their textile mills and profit by selling shoes and cloth to plantations made Harriet feel her faith was dishonored.

I can't show pictures from inside Harriet's house, because the tour guide didn't allowed anybody to take pictures. I can tell that she did love nature and was very dedicated to the garden. In this picture I'm showing a beautiful big 'amapola'. This flower is as big as my hand.

Another visited place

Connecticut Capitol Building, 1878

Inside this Capitol Building is similar to the Capitol Building of PR, with beautiful marble floors. This building houses the executive offices and legislative chambers of the state.

House of Representatives Room Meetings	Senate Room Meetings

The Capitol Building, keep inside some relics, like this antique bed, once used by a major general of the Revolutionary War. This bed invented in the 18th century, as an alternative for hey beds, which always ended being infected with bed bugs. The strings on canvas beds had to be drawn taut to prevent the beds from sagging, thereby giving rise to the time-honored saying of "sleep tight".

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It's the historic building where legislation and Judgments were done. This courthouse is known for saving and freeing a group African people who survived a ship trip into which they were kidnapped by the Spanish, who wanted to sell them later in the Caribbean, as slaves.

The building has a Museum inside, which is a replica of the Museum that the State House had on the 18th century, showing dissected and not common animals. That was an attraction.	Dollars of that time.