Childhood
March 1, 2025
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March 1, 2025
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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 […]
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 […]