Children’s Books: Once Upon a Time in Connecticut
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Wong Kai Kah Comes of Age in Connecticut
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Stitching Together the History of Litchfield’s Female Academy
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The True Story of Captain Sluman and Sarah Gray
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Frederick Gunn: The Educator Who Went Camping
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Caroline Hewins: Hartford’s First Lady of the Library
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Saturday at the Movies in Depression-era Hartford
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Connecticut Children’s Medical Center: Once the Home for “Incurables”
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A Sound They’ll Never Forget
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A Jewish Child’s Experience of War
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The Mother School of Deaf Education
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Shoebox Archives: My Summers at Camp Courant
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Memories of the Hartford Circus Fire
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A Family Affair: The Manchester Road Race
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Kids in World War II: The Children’s Salvage Army
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 World War II began when Germany, Japan, and Italy…
Long Lane School: Remaking Wayward Girls
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Off the Streets & Into the Parks
By Peter C. Baldwin © Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Arriving in…
An Early American Midwife’s Tale: Jennet Catlin Boardman
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Child Labor Strike in New Britain: “They Will Undoubtedly Win It”
By Sophie Huget (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A strike at…
Pulling Together at Home in World War II
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The Boys & Girls Clubs of America Started Here
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Disrupters in Small Packages
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No Day at the Beach
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“Then Comes Baby in a Baby Carriage”
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Almada Lodge and Channel 3 Kids Camp
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“What Would Dr. King Want You To Do?”
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200 Years of Deaf Education
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2017 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE The year was 1850; the place,…
Jim and Jane Henson Create the Muppets and More
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3rd Grade Inquiry: To Work or to School?
COMPELLING QUESTION: Are children better prepared for adulthood by working or by going to school?…
Catharine Beecher Educates the West
by Allison Speicher WINTER 2016/17 From the lexical contributions of West Hartford’s Noah Webster, the…
Christmas in Connecticut
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Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach
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Mark Twain: Homeschooling the Clemens Way
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To Work or to School: Educating Children in 19th Century Connecticut
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Child Labor
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Making a Home for Orphans
by Briann Greenfield with McKinley Frey, David Kluczwski, Cheryl LeBeau, William McGannon, Keith Miller, Alan…
Destination: Tracking Down Our Classic Roller Coasters
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Educated in One Room
by Clarissa J. Ceglio, Janice Matthews, & Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2007…
In a Neighborhood, A Boy’s World
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Tom Thumb and the Age of Celebrity
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Seaside: Sun & Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis
Sun and Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis The history of Seaside By Ann Harrison with…
A Pint-Sized View of War
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The Diversity of Connecticut
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The Three Rs and “Aha” Moments
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