MGM Grand at Foxwoods counting down to grand May opening
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| Anthony Kulla photo |
Spring is here, and color and beauty are sweeping back into Connecticut by the day. Designed to "bring the outdoors in," the almost-ready MGM Grand at Foxwoods will reflect that beauty through its exterior wall of windows when it opens on May 17.
To enjoy an amazing view of that natural vista, guests need only stay in one of the 825 guest rooms and suites in the new 30-story property. The modern and stylish rooms complement the view, but it's doubtful that anyone will spend very much time in them, despite their amenities. With a new casino and four exciting restaurants plus an array of hip retail stores on the concourse, guests will enjoy an experience never before found in Connecticut.
And then there's the new theater. Gloria Estefan, Larry the Cable Guy, Rosie O'Donnell, Cyndi Lauper, The Steve Miller Band, Joe Cocker, Sarah Brightman and many others will be among (More)
Museum's researcher brings the Pequot past to life in talk to the Stonington Historical Society
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| MPMRC Senior Researcher Jason Mancini points out the close proximity of six tribes to the port of New London. |
Some of the earliest accounts documenting the Indian experience of the maritime world emerge in the court records and runaway advertisements during the eighteenth century. These are among the very few records available to highlight the ways in which Indians began to both adapt to and resist English institutions.
The Treaty of Utrecht, which ended Queen Anne's War in 1713 and terminated inter-colonial conflicts between the French and English, also transformed the power structure between the English and Indians in the region.
As Indian people were increasingly alienated from their lands and subject to English law, they actively renegotiated their existence within Anglo political, economic, and religious structures in order to maintain the connections to family and community that had existed unrestricted only a little more than a generation earlier.
As the century progressed and their depth of experience increased, Indians developed a clearer understanding of English legal and economic systems. With this, Indians began to gain some control over their lives and livelihoods.
Indians throughout the region were engaged in numerous court cases involving land loss and encroachment, trials for theft, murder, and breach of service (runaways). In the first quarter of the eighteenth century, they also appeared as jurors of (More)
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Framed against the sky, the lone tree on a knoll represents
Mashantucket, the "much-wooded land" where the Pequots hunted and
kept alive their identity as an independent people. Displayed on the
knoll is the sign of Robin Cassasinnamon, the Pequot’s first leader
following the 1637 massacre at Mystic Fort. The fox stands as a
reminder that the Pequots are known as "the fox people."
Pequot basketweave pattern.
A gift from the Winged Ones, feathers
carry prayers to the Great Spirit.