CONNECTICUT – At the bottom from the left, we see the very old Sheffield Island
Light House, a mountain laurel (state flower), a Yankee Doodle hat (with feather!) and
a whale. There are two very important vessels to Connecticut’s former economy and its present industry: a whaling ship and a submarine. Across the water is Yale University, which represents several universities in the state and a circus tent, the latter because PT Barnum was born in Connecticut. Above the tent is one of the typical stone walls in the state. To the right of the Yale tower is the dome of the state capitol in Hartford with a charter oak (state tree) in front of it. The robin is the state bird and to its right the home of Prudence Crandall who, by admitting an African American girl to her private school in 1833, ran what is arguably the first integrated school in the U.S. At the top from left are
Fall foliage, the Hartford Skyline, the blue dome of the Colt Arms factory and Nathan Hale’s homestead with more mountain laurels. The topper is a whale!
