Childhood
March 1, 2026
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December 1, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
December 1, 2025
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March 1, 2025
By Mark Terwilliger A letter from a friend is a wonderful gift. You can hold their words in your hands and read what they wrote. It can almost feel like being with them in person. […]
March 1, 2025
By Justin Piccirillo Few people today have heard of or read Emma C. Dowd’s work. Still, a century ago, this author from Meriden, Connecticut, entertained thousands of young readers for years with her […]
August 26, 2021
By Jennifer LaRue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A PDF Any state in the Union would be proud to match tiny Connecticut’s prodigious role in the creation of books […]
August 24, 2021
By Simon Leung (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1972 my mother traveled from Hong Kong to Stamford, Connecticut to interview for a job. Unbeknownst to her at the time, she […]
July 29, 2021
By Lynne Brickley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Litchfield Historical Society (LHS) is continually on a detective hunt to fill gaps in the already well-documented history of Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield […]
July 13, 2021
By Alicia Wayland (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On March 22, 1865, while 400 miles off the coast of Guam, the first mate of the whaling ship James Maury noted in […]
July 13, 2021
By Paula Gibson Krimsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue Frederick Gunn, the iconoclastic founder of The Gunnery, now the Frederick Gunn School, an independent boarding and day school in Washington, Connecticut […]
July 10, 2021
By Susan Bivin Aller (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2007 Subscribe/Buy the issue! When 29-year-old Caroline Hewins arrived in Hartford from Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1875 to become librarian of the Young Men’s Institute, she was […]
June 21, 2021
By Walter E. Smith (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Each Saturday morning was a boisterous joy for me when I was a boy back in the 1930s in Hartford, Connecticut, as […]
January 16, 2021
By Barbara Donahue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Feb/Mar/Apr 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! They were the throwaway kids, the “crippled and defective” ones that most families refused to adopt, the ones left stranded in town farms […]
December 17, 2020
By Emily Clark (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As a horn blew short bursts from an air raid tower near the Bullard Company, Joan Sebok hid in the inner hallway […]
December 16, 2020
By Leon Chameides (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. Liberation of Europe was a gradual process, starting with the […]