The horror, the horror

Charles Ives

“O Prejudice….You enter into the little boy of a New England town and make him stand and gape with the same horror at {the} man going into a Catholic church as the man going into a saloon.’’

— Charles Ives (1874-1954), famed American Modernist composer, insurance executive and native of Danbury, Conn. He’s a considered a father of estate planning.

Danbury, Conn., the “Hat Capital of the World,’’ in 1879

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