Connecticut 250th Anniversary CanvasCharter Oak Art Deco Print, Patriotic Wall Decor In 1687, Connecticut colonists hid their royal charter in the hollow of a great oak tree, defying a British governor who had come to seize it. That act of quiet defiance, decades before muskets were raised at Concord, is the spirit of the Constitution State. This Art Deco canvas honors Connecticut's deep tradition of principled resistance as America marks 250 years of the republic it helped build.