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Have you heard all our #GameChanger episodes of Grating the Nutmeg Podcast? 🎧 Please go to this page to find links to all of these eps and to our podcast surveys - we want your opinion! Visit: www.ctexplored.org/20for20/ ...
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Yum! Coming up Saturday!Maple sugaring has been practiced by New England’s Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years. Following a multi-step process for collecting and condensing maple sap into sweeteners, this process has been refined and passed down orally from one generation to the next. This Saturday join Dan Shears, Material Culture Advisor for the Nulhegan Abenaki tribe’s Cultural and Historic Preservation Department, and Brian Chenevert, Nulhegan Abenaki tribal historian, in Nowashe Village for a Maple Sugaring Demonstration. Passamaquoddy Maple syrup will be available for purchase. ...
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Sophie Tucker rose to fame as a performer based on her big personality, bawdy songs, and independent spirit that audiences loved.
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Thanks for sharing this CT Explored story!“I had to confront my inner self, my inner dreams; not whine, not cry, but to keep going.”

After receiving a master’s in education from Trinity College in 1967, Bessye Bennett enrolled in the law school at the University of Connecticut. She graduated in 1973 and a year later became the first African American woman licensed to practice law in Connecticut.

Among her many other accomplishments, Bennett rose to vice president at Society for Savings and later established a private practice.

Read more about "The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett" in this Connecticut Explored piece:
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Stream our new Grating the Nutmeg Podcast episode: bit.ly/3TgwdDs

A hundred years ago, CT was home to an astonishing number of soda bottlers. Learn about the origins of the soda craze, its relation to Prohibition, and the stories of the oldest surviving CT bottlers, like Avery's Soda! You’ll also hear about some really weird flavor combinations you could once order at CT’s soda fountains! Natalie Belanger and Elena Peters of the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library take a look at the beginnings of our national obsession with soft drinks. ...
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Cocktails are involved!Come to The MATT for Cocktails & Curators this Thursday, March 23 @ 5:30-7:30PM.

Sip cocktails & explore the galleries while enjoying multiple themed cocktails created by a talented bartender from Litchfield Distillery. Mattatuck Museum’s Assistant Curator Natalie DeQuarto and Tanya Pohrt, Curator at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum discuss Cutting Edge, an exhibition that explores the Connecticut Precisionism movement.

Register here: www.mattmuseum.org/calendar/cocktails-curators-cuttingedge/

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This will be a beautiful lecture!On March 28 at 7 pm our curator Tanya Pohrt will give a virtual tour of Tiffany windows in Connecticut and discuss Louis C. Tiffany’s deep family roots to the eastern part of the state. This online event is hosted by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass.

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‘Come Unto Me’ Window, installed 1924. Leaded glass. Frederick Wilson, designer, Tiffany Studios, New York. Originally installed in All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Huntington Street, New London, CT. 65.25” h x 71.5” w. Museum purchase, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2014.7. ...
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By Barbara Sicherman Summer 2011 (c) Connecticut Explored Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin out of a burning need to “do something” about the infamous Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that required Northerners to assist in returning enslaved men, women, and child...
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Have you been to the top of the Castle Craig Tower in Hubbard Park? You can see Long Island Sound! Learn how this 123 year-old park was created! Visit
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Catch our #StPatricksDay2023 sale! Check out using this link to get your sale price, or redeem your discount using PAT23 as a coupon. If you pay by check, write PAT23 in the memo. Click here: bit.ly/3YT1iOZ ...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Have you read about this living legend and folk hero to many in Connecticut?

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By Marshall S. Berdan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All photos courtesy of Nellie Green’s family. Special thanks to her great-grand daughter, Charlene Massey, and her great-grandson, Charles William Green Talmadge III. East Haven’s Nellie Green (1873-1951) di...
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Check out the latest connecticuthistory.org story all about our partner, Kent Historical Society

Learn about the Seven Hearths building's 272-year history. Before becoming the home of the Kent Historical Society, this structure served as a dwelling house, a store and trading post, a school, tenant farmers housing, and a leased home.Learn the fascinating history of KHS's own Seven Hearths.

Thanks to Christine Adams, KHS Trustee, and ConnecticutHistory.org for sharing our story!

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Stream our new Grating the Nutmeg Podcast episode: bit.ly/3TgwdDs

Natalie Belanger and Elena Peters of the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library take a look at the beginnings of our national obsession with soft drinks. A hundred years ago, CT was home to an astonishing number of soda bottlers. Learn about the origins of the soda craze, its relation to Prohibition, and the stories of the oldest surviving CT bottlers. You’ll also hear about some really weird flavor combinations you could once order at CT’s soda fountains! ...
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Want to make your own root beer? Here’s the recipe mentioned by host Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library in our new podcast episode “Carbonated Connecticut” - stream now at bit.ly/3TgwdDs ...
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New Grating the Nutmeg Podcast episode out today! Stream: bit.ly/3TgwdDs

Natalie Belanger and Elena Peters of the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library take a look at the beginnings of our national obsession with soft drinks. A hundred years ago, CT was home to an astonishing number of soda bottlers. Learn about the origins of the soda craze, its relation to Prohibition, and the stories of the oldest surviving CT bottlers. You’ll also hear about some really weird flavor combinations you could once order at CT’s soda fountains! ...
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Coming up with our good friend Walt Woodward! In-person or virtually on Zoom!Between 1780 and 1830, tens of thousands of Connecticans left our state to “begin the world anew” in places like Pennsylvania, Vermont, western New York, and especially, the Western Reserve. Join Connecticut’s State Historian Emeritus Walt Woodward to explore the reasons behind Connecticut’s massive outmigration, the distinctive attributes of the people who chose to leave, and the very serious concerns their removal raised for those they left behind.

This lecture is FREE and open to the public!

To accommodate audiences in Connecticut, Ohio, and beyond, this lecture is being hosted in person at the Litchfield Historical Society and online via Zoom.

For more information and to register visit www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/calendar-grid/

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Sneak peek! CT’s carbonated history on our Grating the Nutmeg Podcast drops on Wednesday! Avery’s, Hosmer, or Foxon Park-what’s your fav? ...
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Thanks for sharing this Connecticut Explored story!Wasp engine.

Also see Frederick Rentschler via Connecticut Explored. www.ctexplored.org/the-skys-the-limit/

And National Aviation Hall of Fame.
nationalaviation.org/enshrinee/frederick-brant-rentschler/

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