Childhood
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 […]
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 […]
October 21, 2020
By Gary E. Wait (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When the founders of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, as the American School for […]
October 19, 2020
By Chief Charles A. Teale, Sr. (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When I was a child living in the housing complex known as Bellevue Square in Hartford, I initially had a […]
September 30, 2020
By Janice Matthews (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On a beautiful summer day in 1944, Hartford experienced one of its greatest tragedies when a fire blazed through the Hartford Matinee performance […]
September 28, 2020
By Christopher Pagliuco (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Manchester Road Race, held each Thanksgiving in Manchester, Connecticut, can lay claim to all sorts of historically significant superlatives. First run in […]
September 16, 2020
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 World War II began when Germany, Japan, and Italy tried to overtake other countries. The Nazis were in control of Germany. During the war, the Nazi’s imprisoned (in places […]
September 15, 2020
By Mark H. Jones and Nancy O. Albert (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Girls are to be the future mothers and makers of homes, and the home in our land is […]