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August 31, 2025
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.
July 1, 2025
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.
June 14, 2025
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 15, 2025
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.
December 1, 2024
By Michelle Cheng and Chelsea Garth Sharing food brings communities together. Food can nourish us, offer comfort, help us celebrate special occasions, and inspire us to pass down stories and traditions. The Fairfield […]
December 1, 2024
By Kelsie Dalton The Cos Cob Art Colony emerged as the cradle of American Impressionism in 1890, when the first classes from the Art Students League of New York hopped on trains to bucolic Cos […]
December 1, 2024
VOLUME 23/NUMBER 1/WINTER 2024–2025 $10.00 Connecticut Explored Connecticut history, one good story after another. IN THIS ISSUE: Eat Up! Contents Volume 23/Number 1/Winter 2024–2025 pg 9 Hog River Journal: Food for Thought By Kathy […]
July 29, 2021
By Susan Chandler (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2007 Every profession has its leadership institution. The performing arts have Juilliard, the military has West Point and the culinary arts has the CIA. – Craig Claiborne […]
July 29, 2021
By Melanie Anderson Bourbeau (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As just about any tour guide at a historic house museum can attest, one of visitors’ most common question is “Can we […]
January 22, 2021
By Charles Zanor (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the 1850s, Gail Borden started what would eventually become an immensely successful milk business – later to be ably represented by Elise […]
October 7, 2020
All images courtesy of Frank Purcaro (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Note: The company has used both “Frankies” and “Frankie’s.” We have opted to use “Frankies,” which is how the company […]
September 16, 2020
By Ilene Frank (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! You’ll never just pass by Bloodroot. But you should make a point to travel there. Tucked away in a residential neighborhood that sits […]
March 17, 2020
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Perhaps the most important strategy for an architectural historian is simply to look up. Few busy people really take the time […]
July 2, 2019
By Alexander Dubois (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue Recalling his childhood in Wethersfield, John Marsh wrote that “the town was settled, as were most of the towns in Connecticut, with hard […]
July 2, 2019
By Jennifer DiCola Matos (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! There was a time when a particularly frigid winter was cause for celebration for the people of Connecticut—especially for Connecticans involved in […]