Editing Willimantic, Connecticut (section)

==In popular culture==
[[Connecticut State Troubadour]] [[Hugh Blumenfeld]] wrote a "Willimantic Trilogy" of songs about the city from 1990 to 1995: "Thread City", "Main Street Sky", and "How Long".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~h2jukebox/troubadour.html |title=1999-2000 Connecticut State Troubadour |last=Blumenfeld |first=Hugh |date=2003-06-17 |access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref>

In 2007, writer-director [[A.D. Calvo]] filmed portions of his debut film, ''[[The Other Side of the Tracks]]'', in Willimantic,<ref>{{Citation |last1=Fehr |first1=Brendan |title=The Other Side of the Tracks|date=2008-03-28|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1006929/locations |last2=Knight |last3=Lindberg |last4=Malthe |first2=Shirley |first3=Chad |first4=Natassia |access-date=2017-03-13}}</ref> and in 2011, he returned to film the majority of his third feature, ''[[House of Dust]]'', on the campus of [[Eastern Connecticut State University]] and various other locations in town.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://ct.gov/ecd/lib/ecd/house_of_dust_swan_day.pdf|title=The Step Saver/The Observer |last=CHAIKEN|first=MIKE|date=2011-08-26|access-date=2017-03-12}}</ref>

In [[Marvel Comics]] "[[Avengers: Celestial Quest]]", [[Mantis (Marvel Comics)|Mantis]] recounts raising her son, [[Sequoia (comics)|Sequoia]], in Willimantic for a year. One of her fragmented manifestations would later return and be found by a clone of [[Thanos]].<ref>"Avengers: Celestial Quest" Issue 1-2</ref>