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Redding Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Old Put in Bronze

Redding Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Old Put in Bronze

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Old Put. Sword up, hat on, and the last thing the British dragoons saw of him was the back of a horse going somewhere they wouldn't follow. Redding knew the man before the legend did.

That winter of 1778-79 Israel Putnam commanded from Redding. Three camps, the Danbury stores behind him, the Sound below, and a division unpaid and close to walking home - he talked the Connecticut brigades back to their huts on the morning of December 30 with a speech and one confined ringleader. From these camps he pushed patrols down to the coast, to Norwalk, Stamford and Horseneck, and it was on that line, in late February, that a British column caught him at Greenwich with a handful of men. What he did next is the ride everyone tells. What people forget is where he rode home to: here.

The park at his winter camp keeps a bronze of that moment, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, on the visitor-center lawn. This isn't that one. It's ours - an original figure drawn for this ornament, rendered in old bronze, the general with his sword raised and, by some readings, a message for the men at the top of the stairs.

For the Redding native, the history-minded, the one who thinks the correct response to overwhelming odds is a good horse.

The art is original and printed on a three-inch faceted crystal glass round, white-backed so the bronze reads warm and solid against a lit tree. The faceted edge catches light from every angle. Arrives boxed - your choice of white or gold gift box at checkout.

3-inch (76 mm) round crystal glass ornament · faceted gem-cut edge · white-backed print for crisp contrast · red ribbon hanger · your choice of white or gold gift box, included · free U.S. shipping.


QUICK FACTS — REDDING CONNECTICUT CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — OLD PUT IN BRONZE

Series: Crystal Glass Ornament

Art: Old Put in Bronze, original Merlin Classics engraving printed to the glass

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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A century later the town went back for it. In 1887, at the urging of Redding residents, the state took the main camp ground as a memorial, and in 1888 it raised the granite monument: Connecticut's first state park. The log blockhouses and cannon at the gate came after. The bronze of Putnam on horseback at the entrance is the work of Anna Hyatt Huntington, who lived a few miles up the road.

Why is Redding called Connecticut's Valley Forge? Because in the winter of 1778–79 Major General Israel Putnam quartered a division of the Continental Army here — about three thousand men in three camps of log huts — short of bread, blankets and shoes. Joseph Plumb Martin, a Connecticut private who wintered in Redding, remembered the season as one of starving and freezing. The main camp is now Putnam Memorial State Park.

Why People Visit Redding

People come to Redding for what is not here: no highway, no strip, no crowd. They come for a Revolutionary War camp you can walk alone on a winter morning, for sixty miles of trails, and for the hills that drew Mark Twain, Charles Ives and Edward Steichen out of New York.

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