Wesleyan Research on Middletown
“Even Start Family Literacy Program Evaluation: Measuring Parental Involvement in Education” for Even Start Family Learning Program by Shayna Bauchner, Katie Hanna, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, and Holing Yip This report is the final product of a semester-long collaborative study between a group of student researchers from Wesleyan University and the Middletown Adult Education Even Start […]
“Exploring Employers’ Attitudes on Hiring Individuals with Serious Mental Illness” for River Valley Services by Stephanie Quainoo, Sara Shor, Sarah Tracy-Wanck, Jennifer Veloz This report examines employers’ attitudes on hiring individuals with a serious mental illness (SMI) within River Valley Services’ (RVS) Catchment Area 10- Middlesex County. The purpose of the study was to […]
Saturday for Kids: An Evaluation of Respite Needs, Barriers, and Outreach Methods for MARC: Community Resources by Jennifer Garcia, Nora Gilbert, Deepti Sood, and Feifei Wu The purpose of this study was to identify why families with children with developmental disabilities are not utilizing MARC: Community Resources’ Saturday for Kids Program, located in Cromwell, […]
“Neglected, Vagrant, and Viciously Inclined: The Girls of the Connecticut Industrial School, 1867-1917” is an honors thesis in American Studies by Sarah A. Leavitt, advised by Professor Patricia Hill. The paper is an “account of the advocates and inmates of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls.” See more details and download the full text from: … Read more
On October 22, 1936, accompanied by his wife Eleanor, who ordinarily shunned such trips, Franklin Roosevelt rode through Middletown’s Sicilian neighborhood; passed St. John’s Church, historic sanctuary of the Irish; slowed momentarily at St. Aloysius’ Hall, a temperance hall temporarily turned into headquarters for the Remington Rand machinists; and continued up flag-draped Main Street, accompanied … Read more
The spring flood was only the start of Middletown’s 1936 calamities. No sooner had East Side residents returned to their residences, thrown out spoiled belongings, and resumed work than the Remington Rand Corporation forced its 1,350 Middletown machinists to strike. —”Middletown’s Barons and the End of the WASP Ascendancy,” an unpublished essay by Ron Schatz
Measured by proportion to population, Middletown was hit harder by this flood than any other city in Connecticut. Some of the city’s poorest residents refused to leave their quarters despite the disaster. Instead, like many of the impoverished residents of New Orleans in the 2005 Katrina flood, they chose to carry their belongings to the … Read more
Professor Sarah Croucher’s Middletown Materials project features research undertaken by students from 2010 onwards on the artifacts recovered from excavations that have taken place in Middletown Connecticut. Excavations took place in the 1970s in advance of redevelopment work of downtown Middletown. Several sites were excavated around the South End of Main Street. Professor Croucher will … Read more
Arielle Berrick, Wesleyan University Rachel Miller-Howard, Wesleyan University Abstract Bill Barrows is a professional antiques dealer. He was born and raised in Portland, CT, where he resides today….This recording captures the stories of a longstanding Portland resident. Bill describes his antiques business, his childhood, his relationship to the quarries, his family history, and Middletown and … Read more
Wesleyan scholarship covers many areas of the globe (and beyond), but Middletown, Connecticut—as the home of Wesleyan—enjoys a privileged status. Wesleyan faculty and student research looks at the University’s hometown through a variety of disciplinary lenses—from anthropology to biology, from history to architecture—and incorporates Service Learning initiatives as well. This site attempts to organize some … Read more
