Archive for November 20, 2007

These 50 States: Connecticut

Posted in Patch Collecting, These 50 States by John E. Pannell on November 20th, 2007 at 6:33 am

This is the ninth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

As we approach the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, the egg nog drinking season, I thought I would turn my attention to looking for patches in the shape of the Nutmeg State. 

I could only find one patch shaped like Connecticut.   This is the J1 from Owaneco 313.  The lodge’s territory in the southeastern portion of the state is outlined in blue. 

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"Mathematics has beauties of its own -- a symmetry and proportion in its results, a lack of superfluity, an exact adaptation of means to ends, which is exceedingly remarkable and to be found only in the works of the greatest beauty When this subject is properly ... presented, the mental emotion should be that of enjoyment of beauty, not that of repulsion from the ugly and the unpleasant."
In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.
J. W. A. Young