Fall 2024
September 1, 2024
August 31, 2024
Hog River Journal: History Under Foot By Kathy Hermes Today, we often walk with our heads down. We’re looking at texts on our phones or—in my case—trying not to trip over our feet or […]
August 31, 2024
What a wonderful article on the Bushnell Park arch in the Summer 2024 magazine. As a member of the Bushnell Park Conservancy, I want to alert everyone that there is an arch tour every Thursday […]
August 31, 2024
Subscribe By Amrys O. Williams Walking home along South Main Street in Middletown many years ago, I noticed writing in the sidewalk ahead. When these patches had been laid, someone had written messages in the […]
August 31, 2024
By Dayne Rugh Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette was only 19 on June 13, 1777, when he first stepped upon America’s shores and became one of the most senior generals […]
August 31, 2024
By Heather Munro Prescott On July 11, 2023, NBC Connecticut reporter Jane Caffrey introduced nightly news viewers to a pilot program of the Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford. The course, part of the Literacy […]
August 31, 2024
By Joan Paul The Griswold Inn is a cultural treasure situated in the storybook seaport village of Essex, Connecticut. “The Gris,” as it is affectionately known, has been around for almost 250 years. As the […]
August 31, 2024
By William Mann It might have been rainy on the night the vampire hunters trudged into the ancient Jewett City cemetery on May 8, 1854. “The late storm,” reported The New London Daily Star on […]
August 31, 2024
By Sal Lilienthal and Mary Collins In early 1775, George Washington was best known for his efforts in the French and Indian War and his marriage to Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy Virginia widow. Meanwhile, […]
August 31, 2024
By Nicholas F. Bellantoni This issue of Connecticut Explored—with its emphasis on exploring historical narratives identified by looking beneath our feet and thinking about places others set foot before us—is certainly pertinent to the science […]
August 31, 2024
By Fiona Vernal Among the hundreds of shoes found in the costume collection of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History (CMCH) is a pair of size 13 brown leather Bostonians. This particular pair of […]
August 31, 2024
Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz interviews people who are bringing the past into the present. There are more than 1,000 enrolled members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. The tribe maintains an active program of […]
August 31, 2024
By Elizabeth Pratt Fox “Everyone in Cheshire, at some time or other, works in the Button Shop.” —Edward Gumprecht, The One Hundred Years of Button Manufacturing in Cheshire, 1950 For almost 150 years, workers walked […]
August 31, 2024
By Arianna Basche Phyllis Zlotnick graduated with honors from Portland High School on June 23, 1960. This occasion was one of the few times she had ever entered the school building because it was not […]
August 31, 2024
Fun Fact about The Gris The Griswold Inn served as the Collinsport Inn in the popular gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–1971), starting with the first episode on June 27, 1966. […]