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In the middle of the twentieth century, KUA was one of a handful of colleges and high schools who participated in …
KUA and the Great Outdoors.
14 Tuesday May 2019
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A Community Project
26 Friday Apr 2019
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So it was under the tall white pines in Meriden, in the first bird sanctuary in the world, led by …
“Opening Day”
28 Thursday Mar 2019
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It’s a sure sign of spring when “opening day” comes to Major League baseball– the 2019 season gets underway today, …
Augustus Washington, Class of 1843
22 Tuesday Jan 2019
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Augustus Washington was born in Trenton, NJ, c. 1820, the son of a freed slave from Virginia and an Asian …
Helen Peabody, A Farmer’s Daughter
18 Tuesday Dec 2018
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Left: Helen Peabody, KUA class of 1844. Below Right: Helen Peabody, center row, third from left, with other Western College faculty. –Photographs …
A Barefoot Boy in Homespun
07 Friday Dec 2018
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Above Left: Principal Cyrus Smith Richards, KUA Class of 1831. Above Right: Cyrus and Helen Richards’ children scanned from a tintype: Charles, …
A New Academy Building
16 Friday Nov 2018
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Above Left: The Second Academy (printed from KUA’s glass slides collection) was a small brick building built c. 1824 on the site of …
A Grateful Academy
08 Thursday Nov 2018
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Left: As a young man of 22, Daniel Kimball, future founder of KUA, enlisted on February 8, 1776, as a soldier …
Classes Begin on January 10, 1815
25 Thursday Oct 2018
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Left: The first General Catalogue 1816-1880 includes the names of these four young women, class of 1816. Right: Otis Hutchins, a Dartmouth graduate, was …
Laying the Foundation
23 Tuesday Oct 2018
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Left: This 1813 issue of the Charter for [Kimball] Union Academy notes Daniel Kimball’s gift of $6,000 and two acres of …
