Abstract Diaries reflecting personal and local events, including many comments on world politics and its effect on the New London, Conn., region. Among local events, Bennett records the Oct. 9, 1936 passage of the HINDENBURG over New London, the hurricane in Sept. 1938 which devastated southern New England, annual Yale-Harvard boat races watched from the New London bridge, events surrounding World War II, and events in nearby towns of Mystic and Niantic and his use of bridges in these towns for his...