Sections
Neighborhoods
Features
Follow Us
NHI Newsletter
Legal Notices
Some Favorite Sites
- At Risk for HD
- barista
- Branford Eagle
- Business NH
- Chris Volpe Photography
- Crosscut
- CT Capitol Report
- CT Enviro Headlines
- CT Local Politics
- CT Mirror
- CT News Junkie
- CT Watchdog
- Design New Haven
- Gotham Gazette
- I Love New Haven
- Josiah Brown
- Karman Turn
- La Voz Hispana
- Laurel Club
- Media Nation
- Middletown Eye
- MinnPost
- My Left Nutmeg
- NH Register
- NH Review of Books
- NHV.org
- OneWorld
- Only In Bridgeport
- Oral History Project
- Reddit NH
- See Click Fix
- Smartpill Design
- St. Louis Beacon
- Taste Of NH
- Tom Ficklin
- Valley Independent Sentinel
- Voice of SD
- VT Digger
- WTNH
- Yale Daily News
Government/ Community Links
- Advocate Calendar
- Agency on Aging
- Animal Shelter Volunteers
- Arte Inc.
- Arts Council
- Beth El Keser Israel
- Bike New Haven
- Cancer Support
- Chabad of Westville
- Chamber of Commerce
- Children’s Museum
- City of New Haven
- CitySeed
- Citywide Youth
- Community Loan Fund
- Community Mediation
- ConnCAN
- Creative Arts Workshop
- CT BAEO
- CT Best Restaurants
- CT Tech Council
- Dariba Referrals
- Data Haven
- Elm City Cycling
- Elmseed
- Empower NH
- Friends Of Wooster Sq.
- GAVA
- GNH Community Chorus
- Habitat For Humanity
- Info New Haven
- IRIS
- Jazz Haven
- Jewish Federation
- Job Finder
- Junta
- Labor History
- LEAP
- Legal Aid Network
- Literacy Coalition
- Magrisso Forte
- Mary Wade
- Music Haven
- Neighborhood Music School
- New Haven 828
- New Haven Chorale
- New Haven Reads
- New Life Corp.
- NH Bulletin
- NH Land Trust
- NH Symphony
- NH/Leon Sister City
- NHS
- Orchestra NE
- PAR
- Parents Available to Help
- Pat Dillon
- Peace News
- PechaKucha
- Planned Parenthood
- Police
- Promoting Enduring Peace
- Public Allies CT
- Public Library
- Public Schools
- Public Works
- Rainbow Girls
- Register Calendar
- REX
- ROOF
- SAMA
- SCSU Events
- Share Our Voices
- Shubert
- Solar Youth
- Soul-O-Ettes
- Squash Haven
- United Way
- Urban Design League
- Urban Resources Initiative
- Ward 25 Blog
- Ward 26 Blog
- Westville Renaissance
- Westville Synagogue
- Workforce Alliance
- Yale Events
- Yeshiva NH Shul
- Yeshiva Of NH
- Youth Continuum
Did The Malleys Get Away With Murder?
by Allan Appel | Jan 18, 2013 9:06 am
(3) Comments | Commenting has been closed | E-mail the Author
Posted to: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts
Fair 20-year-old Jennie Cramer may have washed up dead, poisoned, and raped on the beach at Savin Rock back in 1881. But she is beautiful, alive and well again in the visual and musical art that debuted at the Institute Library.
Songs and visual art commemorating one of the most notorious crimes of Victorian New England—the rapscallion scions of the department store Malley family were found not guilty after a one-hour jury deliberation—are part of Sounding New Haven: Music Scenes, 1840-1940.
The show on the third-floor gallery of the Chapel Street membership-library contains old photographs, posters, sheet music, announcements, and pamphlets. It includes a whole section dealing with the Cramer saga, characterized as “the Elm City Tragedy,” that gripped New Haven and the country in the summer of 1881.
A musical opening drew 50 people Wednesday night. The crowd included Yale American studies graduate students who mounted the exhibition. The show runs through Jan. 26 during library hours.
One of the students’ professors, Laura Wexler, said after the performance: “This library existed in New Haven when these songs were being sung. It’s never seemed to be more [than now] that music was a time machine.”
Among the six songs, performed with intensity and sincerity by baritone Taylor Ward and pianist John Muniz, was “Found Drifting with the Tides.”
The still-affecting 1882 ballad tells us how New Haven’s treasure is drifting with the tides and how finally Death has claimed her for his bride.
The show also contains images of iconic locations and personalities from New Haven’s music scenes throughout the decades from before the Civil War to just before World War Two.
These include the Loomis Temple of Music at 839 Chapel, along with images of the the turn of the century vaudeville and movie theaters impressario Sylvester Poli.
Tags: Institute Library, Malleys
Post a Comment
Comments
posted by: Rep. Pat Dillon on January 18, 2013 1:15pm
Great article about the Institute, and our local history. Part of the Malley mansion (where some of these events may have taken place) still stands on Batter Terrace, and if I recall, Batter is curved because it was the Malley driveway.
posted by: robn on January 18, 2013 9:52pm
Yes…
The Malley cover-up. Just as I indicated in the NHI almost exactly two years ago.
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/att_moves_to_green/
