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By Elizabeth Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2018-2019 Long before I discovered a…
By Elizabeth Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2018-2019 Long before I discovered a…
By Elizabeth Normen SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE This special issue commemorating the 200th anniversary of the…
By Elizabeth J. Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2018 Sports have a way of…
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE I’m a sucker for a property…
by Elizabeth Normen Happy Valentine’s Day! What better theme is there as we celebrate our…
WTNH’s Ann Nyberg recently interviewed Betsy Fox about Connecticut-made cocktail shakers, the subject of Betsy’s…
by Elizabeth J. Normen, Fall 2017 With this issue, Connecticut Explored celebrates its 15th anniversary!…
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 The theme of this issue—food…
By Elizabeth J. Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2017 This issue is produced…
We’re as shocked as anyone that some students in Connecticut are reading a whitewashed history…
By Leah S. Glaser (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Winter 2016-2017 Connecticut Explored invited CCSU history…
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2016 Our Puritan forefathers dealt with…
By Elizabeth J. Normen As our Fall issue went to press, we receive word that, due…
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2016 Anyone who knows historian Bill Hosley…
by Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2016 In this presidential election year, we…
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2015-2016 In the Winter 2015-2016 issue,…
By Elizabeth J. Normen FALL 2015 I was raised in a philanthropic family. That doesn’t…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2015 Is historic preservation only about saving old buildings from…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Spring 2015 One upside to Connecticut’s proximity to New York City…
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014/2015 “Knowledge Wins!” proclaims a World War I-era…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Fall 2014 It’s starting to feel a bit like the Wild…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2014 2014 marks the 400th anniversary of Adriaen Block’s 1614…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Spring 2014 Here’s why I’m wary of claims of being “first”…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Winter 2013-2014 How often do you shake your head and think,…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Fall 2013 In our Fall 2012 10th Anniversary issue we explored…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2013 The sperm whale was designated the Connecticut state animal…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Spring 2013 One of my new favorite things to do on…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Winter 2012-2013 True or False: ____ Connecticut was a slave colony/state…
By Elizabeth J. Normen FALL 2012 In the Fall 2012 issue we again examine one…
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2012 Anniversaries provide a wonderful impetus for refreshing our understanding…
The spring issue’s publisher’s letter is creating some buzz. Here’s what people are talking about:…
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2003 https://www.ctexplored.org/subscribe/ “Afternoon Illustration Class”, 1914-1915 brochure…