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   From the Editor 

            LIGHT WINS OUT OVER PREJUDICE

   This being the 10th Anniversary issue of CTOldHouse.com I thought I’d say a word about how we started out and what we’ve become. In the beginning I quoted Wallace Stevens “It is a question of coming home to the American self in the sort of place in which it was formed.” As time went on my understanding of what Stevens said grew less transcendental and more realistic. In the second year we were in existence, I visited the Prudence Crandall house in Canterbury. Prudence Crandall, you may remember, established New England’s first academy for girls of color in 1833. Crandall was forced to close the school two years later. It was a dark, ugly incident in Connecticut history, but it was counterbalanced by the light of righteousness Prudence Crandall shed, a light which remains as bright and strong as when it first shone through the darkness of prejudice in 1833.

                                                                                                            Max H. Peters

                                                                                                           Publisher and Editor