Groton Monument 19th Century Size:36x24 when the Republic had begun

when the Republic had begun the slow

his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence

the earthwork redoubt drawn with the cartographer's patience for a fight that lasted barely a winter afternoon

thirteen winters earlier

Groton Monument 19th Century Size:36x24 when the Republic had begunGroton Monument 19th Century renders the granite obelisk raised above Fort Griswold, where Connecticut militiamen fell to Benedict Arnold's raiders in 1781 an engraving in the patient idiom of post war commemoration, when stone was the chosen vocabulary for grief still owed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the