Welcome to Connecticut Explored
We’re the magazine and podcast of Connecticut history!
Find our podcast at gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com or CTExplored.org/Listen.
We are a nonprofit organization founded in 2002 and celebrating our 20th anniversary in 2022. We may be unique in the nation as a publication separate from our state historical society and state humanities council. That means your membership-subscription and gifts to Friends of Connecticut Explored keep us publishing! As a funded partner of CTHumanities, we work closely with the state’s arts, culture, historical, and preservation communities.
We publisher educational resources for children, too. Visit our Teach page for more information.
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Award-Winning!
2020 Connecticut Center for the Book Finalist, “Spirit of Connecticut” category, for Venture Smith’s Colonial Connecticut
2017 Bruce Fraser Friend of the Social Studies Award, Connecticut Council for the Social Studies, publisher Elizabeth J. Normen
2014 Connecticut League of History Organizations Award of Merit for African American Connecticut Explored
2010 Award of Merit, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation
2005 Wilbur Cross Award, Humanities Program of the Year, Connecticut Humanities Council
We partner with Connecticut’s premier history, arts, and educational organizations to bring you a great magazine—in print, online, and via our bi-weekly e-newsletter CTExplored/Inbox.
In our pages and through collaborative programming with our partner organizations, we discuss and debate: “What happened here?”
Through compelling stories and intriguing images, Connecticut Explored explores the whole of the Connecticut story with the aim of revealing connections between our past, present, and future.
We are published by a consortium of organizational partners that represent the best heritage, educational, and arts organizations in the state. That’s your assurance that this a high quality—and highly readable—magazine.
Our ultimate goal is to gain a greater sense of what makes Connecticut unique. This is a publication that covers the depth and breadth of our state’s history in articles of high quality but with an eye for lively reading and wide appeal.
Above all, Connecticut Explored is a place where readers encounter the fascinating, and often untold, stories of our state’s people, places, and events.
We look forward to including you in our circle of Connecticans who love our state, love knowing more about Connecticut, and love a good story!
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Contact Us
Connecticut Explored, Inc.
Office and mail location:
c/o Department of History
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
or by mail:
PO Box 271561
West Hartford CT 06127-1561
To call us: 860-832-2805 (business office; voicemail available) or 860-781-0987 (home office; please call during business hours).
Kathy Hermes, Publisher and Executive Director: publisher@ctexplored.org
Arianna Basche, Editorial Assistant and Ad Manager: admanager@ctexplored.org or subscriptions@ctexplored.org
Olivia Grella, Subscription Memberships: memberships@ctexplored.org
For education services, Kristen Levithan, education@ctexplored.org or 860-746-9388 during business hours
Publication Information:
Published quarterly by
Connecticut Explored Inc.
In collaboration with our organizational partners listed on the right
Editorial Team
Katherine A. Hermes, Publisher and Executive Director
Arianna Basche, Editorial Assistant and Advertising Manager
Jennifer LaRue, Editor
John Alves, Art Director
Kristen Levithan, Education Specialist
Patrick O’Sullivan, Media Specialist
Elizabeth Normen, Founding Publisher & President Emeritus
Board of Directors
Kendall Wiggin, President
Connecticut State Librarian Emeritus
Edward Spinella, Treasurer
Partner, Murtha Cullina Attorneys at Law
Olivia White, Secretary
Non-profit Consultant
Clarissa J. Ceglio
Associate Director of Research, Greenhouse Studios; Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, UConn
Michael Markowicz
General Counsel at Evergreen Nephrology