Form：A small tree or shrub with many twisted stems．
State Flag州旗
此旗在1895年5月29日在会员大会上作为州旗的首选建议被提，在同一天会员大会通过一项决议：指定特殊委员会来确定此旗为本州州旗。
Inspired by a memorial from the Anna Warner Bailey Chapter of the daughters of the American Revolution，Governor O．Vincent Coffin，on May 29，1895，introduced to the General Assembly the first proposal for the adoption of a State Flag．On that same day the Assembly passed a resolution appointing a special committee to prepare a designation of the flag already generally accepted as the official flag of the state．
The General Assembly of 1897provided an official description of the flag setting the dimensions at five feet，six inches in length and four feet，four inches in width，of azure blue（天青蓝）silk，with the armorial（徽章的）bearings in argent white silk with the design in natural colors and border of the shield embroidered（绣花）in gold and silver．Below the shield there is a white streamer，cleft（裂缝，隙口）at each end，bordered in gold and browns，the streamer bearing in dark blue the motto “Qui Transtulit Sustinet”．
State Song州歌
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle went to town，
Riding on a pony（小型马），
Stuck a feather in his hat，
And called it macaroni（纨绔子弟）．
CHORUS
Yankee Doodle keep it up，
Yankee Doodle dandy，
Mind the music and the step，
And with the folks be handy．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names．The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878．
2．The USS Nautilus—the world’s first nuclear powered submarine was built in Groton in 1954．
3．Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment（Prohibition）．
4．In 1705，copper was discovered in Simsbury．Later，the copper mine became the infamous（声名狼籍的）New－Gate Prison of the Revolutionary War．Doctor Samuel Higley of Simsbury started the first copper coinage in America in 1737．
5．The Scoville Memorial Library is the United States oldest public library．The library collection began in 1771，when Richard Smith，owner of a local blast furnace（鼓风炉），used community contributions to buy 200books in London．Patrons could borrow and return books on the third Monday of every third month．Fees were collected for damages，the most common being “greasing”by wax dripped from the candles by which the patrons（（对某人，某种目标，艺术等）赞助人，资助人）read．
6．On April 9，1810，a Salisbury town meeting voted to authorize the “selectmen draw upon the town treasurer for the sum of one hundred dollars”to purchase more books for the Scoville Memorial Library collection，making the library the first publicly supported free town library in the United States．
7．Mary Kies，of South Killingly was the first woman to receive a U．S．patent．On May 15th，1809for a method of weaving straw with silk．
8．On January 28，1878，21venturous（好冒险的，大胆的）citizens of New Haven became the world’s first subscribers to telephone exchange service．
9．America’s first trade association was founded in Naugatuck（诺格塔克位于康涅狄格特中西部，沃特伯里南部，诺格塔克河畔的一个城镇，大约105公里（65英里）长）Valley．
10．Cattle branding in the United States began in Connecticut when farmers were required by law to mark all of their pigs．
11．In Hartford，you may not，under any circumstances，cross the street walking on your hands！
12．Connecticut is home to the oldest U．S．newspaper still being published：The Hartford Courant，established in 1764．
13．Connecticut has approx．（（=approximately）大约，大概）144newspapers published in the State（daily，Sunday，weekly and monthly）．
14．Connecticut is home to the first hamburger（1895），Polaroid camera（1934），helicopter（1939），and color television（1948）．
15．The first automobile law was passed by the state of CT in 1901．The speed limit was set at 12miles per hour．
16．The first lollipop（棒棒糖）－making machine opened for business in New Haven in 1908．George Smith named the treat after a popular racehorse．
17．Ella Grasso was elected in her own right to be a state governor in 1974．
