CPTV Seeks Mementos

Of World War II

HARTFORD — CPTV, Connecticut’s public television station, is putting together a documentary about how World War II changed Connecticut’s social and economic fabric.

The Connecticut Experience documentary will be titled Homefront: Connecticut.

Producer Rich Hanley says CPTV is seeking photographs and films of Connecticut workers and workplaces during the war; photographs and home movies that document domestic life in the 1940s; letters to or from soldiers overseas; dairies; personal/corporate scrapbooks; archival materials such as posters, Gold Star placards, and ration cards.

Anyone who has items that may be used in the documentary should contact Mr Hanley at CPTV, 240 New Britain Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106, or 860-278-5310, ext 13, or email rich_hanley@wedh.pbs.org. Evenings and weekends he can be reached at his home in New Haven, 203-624-8778, or email rhanley@snet.net.

The deadline for materials is April 15.

The Connecticut Experience is a partnership between the Connecticut Humanities Council and CPTV. This collaboration creates productions about Connecticut’s history.