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Hartford's Ann Plato was the first Black woman to publish a book of essays and poems (1841). Join Natalie Belanger, Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library and Professor Antoinette Brim Bell, Professor of English, Capitol Community College, for a discussion on Plato's extraordinary work and life. Ann Plato’s book, Essay: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry, has been digitized and is available to read online.

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Ct Explored for kids!Shoes. Toys. Car tires. Erasers. Balloons. Elastic bands. What do all these things have in common? They are made of rubber! Hundreds of things we use everyday are made with rubber. It’s hard to imagine living without it. We have one person to thank for this: Charles Goodyear.
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New Podcast Episode! What famous Bridgeport resident built this fantasy house? Our episode reveals circus showman P. T. Barnum. He made and lost several fortunes, helped to create the American circus, exhibited a phony mermaid cobbled together from a monkey and a fish, and loved Bridgeport!
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Where some my Nicholls and Johnson ancestors lived. My ancestor Richard Edwin Stanton's building company built the Wheeler and Wilson factory in East Bridgeport. Stanton was born Brooklyn, NY in 1826 and died in Bridgeport, CT in 1886.
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Number One: Connecticut and the Pandemic of 1918. gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/93-connecticut-and-the-pandemic-of-1918As Covid began rocking our world in 2020, we looked back at how the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 rocked Connecticut a century ago. Interesting to listen to a year later, because it too seems historical

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Christmas in New England was not always the affair it is today. The Puritans, in fact, tried their best to stamp it out during the Colonial period. According to Stephen Nissenbaum in The Battle for Christmas (Vintage Books, 1997) in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681 it was illegal to celebrate the holiday. Even where celebration was allowed, it wasn’t universally embraced. Read more:
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In the spirit of the season, a Victorian era Christmas story by the celebrated Guilford author Rev. W. H. H. Murray. Called “Adirondack” Murray, because his books transformed that region from a New York wilderness to a popular tourist destinations, Murray was one of the earliest promoters of recreational camping, and coined the term “vacation. In “John Norton’s Vagabond,” a decides, in counsel with his dogs to hold a special Christmas dinner. Get a cup of cocoa, grab an easy chair, and hear Walt Woodward read “Adirondack Murray’s” Christmas story, “John Norton’s Vagabond. Gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com ...
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