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unusual facts about The Hartford


1916 in poetry

When Wallace Stevens' job as a lawyer for a New York City insurance company is abolished as a result of mergers, he joins the home office of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and moves to Hartford, where he will remain the rest of his life.


Kelly Crowley

Her other jobs include Motivational speaker for such corporations as Levi Strauss and The Hartford on which she promotes disability-awareness and mental and physical health speeches.

Rodgers Townsend

Current clients include: AT&T, BASF, The Black Rep, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Echo360, Eckert’s Orchard, Enterprise Holdings, The Hartford, LouFest, Mayflower, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, Outreach International, Pleats, St. Louis Rams, St. Louis University, The Magic House and United Van Lines.

United Federal Credit Union

Affiliated Programs from UFCU include United Diamond Insurance - insurance coverage for property, vehicles, renters, life, business, dental and health, Medicare Supplement insurance; and Accidental death and dismemberment insurance coverage, underwritten by The Hartford and offered by Affinion Benefits Group


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Ann Uccello

Uccello was an executive at the Hartford department store G. Fox & Co..

Diridon Station

The passenger platform is featured in the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) as representing the Hartford, Connecticut train station.

Everything Moves Alone

The film premiered at the Hartford, Connecticut art house theater Cinestudio in the spring of 2001 and went on to play in the New York Independent International Film & Video Festival.

Fairfield Swamp Fight

The Hartford General Court dispatched Captain Israel Stoughton and his troops numbering some 120 soldiers to southern Connecticut, with the goal of ending the Pequot War and the capture of Sassacus, the Pequot chief sachem.

Hartford circus fire

In recent years, the Hartford circus fire has been covered in detail in several works of non-fiction, including an episode of The History Channel show The Wrath of God and a book Circus Fire by Stewart O'Nan.

Hartford Wanderers RFC

The Hartford Wanderers are sponsored by Ten Penny Ale which is made by Burnside Brewery, Red Rock Tavern, Connecticut Army National Guard, Crispin Hard Cider Company, ProEx Physical Therapy, and BSA Landscaping.

John Augustine Hartford

The Hartford loan scandal, which involved several other parties, was discovered by Congressional subcommittees investigating the FCC in 1943, but FDR's top aide (then in private practice) Thomas Corcoran succeeded in keeping it under wraps until after FDR's death in April 1945.

Riley Nash

Riley has a brother, Brendon, who plays for the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL, and two sisters.

Roll, Indiana

In 1951, Hoosier Hysteria erupted in the tiny community of Roll, as the Roll Red-Rollers won the Hartford City sectional in the Indiana High School basketball tournament.

Tim DeKay

In addition to his roles in film and television, his resume includes numerous theatrical credits, with performances in plays both on and off Broadway, including: Ridiculous Fraud at the McCarter Theatre; Billy Budd at the Circle in the Square Theatre; Someone to Watch Over Me with the Denver Theatre Company; The Merchant of Venice on the Hartford Stage; and the national tour of The Lion in Winter.

Timeline of Blackford County, Indiana history

1955 –3M Company purchases the Hartford City Paper Mill, and becomes a major employer in Hartford City.

Tyringham, Massachusetts

In 1750, Adonijah Bidwell, a Yale Divinity School graduate from the Hartford region, became the first minister of Township No. 1.

Viacom International

Before the merger with CBS Corporation in 1999, it also acted as the licensee company for Viacom's owned television stations; for instance New Britain, Connecticut station WVIT, currently an NBC owned and operated station for the Hartford market owned by Viacom from 1978 until 1997, took their call letters from Viacom International.