Lynn Taborsak

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Taborsak when running for mayor of Danbury.

Hooton in 1959 from the Danbury High School Yearbook

Taborsak, then Hooton, a couple years before coming to WestConn.

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Lynn's A History of Candlewood Lake

2016 Interview with Taborsak

Lynn Hooton came to WestConn, then Danbury State College, in 1965.  She was then known by the last name Fernandez.  One of her favorite teachers had been Dr. Truman Warner who believed strongly in students learning how to use primary source research for investigating historical topics; local topics were particularly interesting to him.  Taborsak was enrolled in Dr. Warner's senior research seminar and chose to write about the lake that had been a fixture in her and her family's life.

She doesn't recall Warner's reaction to her 96-page paper but he kept a copy for his files and Xeroxed it as well.  Unfortunately, the interviews that Tabosak cites in her bibliography no longer exist, but the paper provides much information corroborated with bystander interviews that had not previously been collected and would be lost were it not for her research in 1967.