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March 15, 2025

Coffee — A Connecticut Story

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.
March 1, 2025

Artistry, Charm, and Whimsy: Connecticut’s Carousel Museum

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.
February 15, 2025

Amistad Retold: New Haven and the 1839 Amistad Revolt

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.
February 1, 2025

Miss Crandall’s School for Black Women

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.
January 15, 2025

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir with Griffin Dunne

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.
March 1, 2017

Connecticut’s Star Turn in Film

by Jeanine Basinger WINTER 2009/10   When I was growing up on the midwestern prairie, I had a clear image of the state of Connecticut. I knew what kind of people lived there and what sort […]
October 5, 2016

Coming to Main Street Hartford: …Age

By Brenda J. Miller SUMMER 2009   …Age, a dynamic public art collaboration between Greater Hartford cultural organizations, will be unveiled May 14, 2009 along the walkway between the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and […]
December 18, 2015

125 Years of Music

By Jennifer LaRue (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2015   In the late 19th century, even as great classical music was being composed in Europe and the United States and parlor music was popular in American homes, […]
August 16, 2013

The Scandalous Luna Park

By Gene Leach (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2013 CLICK HERE TO READ AS IT APPEARED IN THE ISSUE Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It was fun while it lasted. For four summers a flamboyant amusement park cavorted […]
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