About the Author

Author John J. Ruddy, an editor and writer at The Day, continues the story he began in Images of America: New London, a portrait of the city in the nineteenth century. As well as New London's great events, he covers fascinating episodes less well known. These include the pioneer aviator who led a historic flight over his hometown, the suicide that brought down a banking institution, and the nation's first self-propelled fire engine. Reinventing New London shows the Whaling City as you have never seen it before.