Actually, Connecticut's closing their "package stores" at 8 pm has nothing
to do with the Blue Laws. It has everything to do with some crazy murderer
back in the late 50's, who robbed and then killed package store owners at
night, in the New Britain area. The guy was caught and given life, but the
State decided it would be safer to close the package stores at 8 pm. Sorry
for the off-topic nature of this post.

Mark

At 06:09 AM 7/28/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>These laws are prohibitive "Blue Laws", as
>alcohol can't be bought in Connecticut after 8 p.m. or
>on Sundays, hunting cannot be performed on Sundays,
>the only thing permitted, even up untill the 70's in
>connecticut, was the attendance of church. I can
>remember as a child in the 70's wanting to do things
>on Sunday, but nope, blue laws have the places closed.
>It seems like they loved to roll up the sidewalk at 7
>p.m. on Saturday night, and unroll it again at 6:30 am
>on Monday.
>
>That's New England for you!