Hog River Journal

May 30, 2026

Hog River Journal: What Did the Declaration Declare?

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March 1, 2026

Hog River Journal: Step-by-Step

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September 1, 2025

Hog River Journal: Environmental Changes in the Land of Steady Habits

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June 1, 2025

Hog River Journal: Celebrating Connecticut and Its People

By Kathy Hermes Summer is a season of celebration, commencing with Memorial Day to honor those who have died in our nation’s wars and ending with Labor Day to recognize the contributions of working people. […]
March 1, 2025

Hog River Journal: The Power of Words

By Kathy Hermes   As a 10-year-old, I received the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett from my cousin Marie. It had only a few illustrations and looked serious and impressive. A wealthy […]
December 1, 2024

Hog River Journal: Food for Thought

By Kathy Hermes Mark Twain once wrote, “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not” (Following the Equator, […]
May 31, 2024

Hog River Journal: Monuments and Monumental Arguments

VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024       (c) Connecticut Explored By Kathy Hermes We welcome Dr. Matthew Warshauer of Central Connecticut State University as our guest editor for our Summer 2024 issue. He solicited and curated […]
March 1, 2024

Hog River Journal: What the Heck Is Digital History?

By Kathy Hermes When I first heard the term “digital history” 26 years ago, I had little idea how the digital age would transform not only the research we did and how we did it […]
December 1, 2023

Hog River Journal: The Sky Is the Limit! Or Is It?

By Kathy Hermes With winter comes crisp, cold air and many nights of clear, starry skies. This issue brings you several stories of the skies, from the cosmology of Connecticut’s first people to the smoke-filled […]
September 1, 2023

Hog River Journal: Law and Legalities–and Jurispractice

By Kathy Hermes The law is never as far removed from our lives as we may think. Almost every day, in addition to making (mostly unenforceable) promises, we sign contracts, use trademarked products, gossip, and […]
June 1, 2023

Hog River Journal: Islands

(c) Connecticut Explored, Summer, 2023 By Kathy Hermes Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Back in 2010 I had the great fortune to join a National Endowment of the Humanities summer institute called “The American Maritime People” at […]
March 1, 2023

Hog River Journal: The Power of Place: New Offices and New Partnerships

By Kathy Hermes (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! New Offices and New Partnerships  In this issue we bring you the Power of Place. And so it is with great pleasure that I […]
August 25, 2022

Celebrate 20 Years With Us

By Kendall Wiggin    (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Fall 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!                                              […]
May 17, 2022

Passing Through, Putting Down Roots — Summer 2022

By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In Winter 2011/2012 we decided to leave the State of Connecticut—editorially speaking—and explore stories about Connecticans who made their mark abroad. We […]
February 23, 2022

Preserving Historic Craftsmanship — Spring 2022

By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Welcome to our latest issue about historic preservation. This is our eighth, nearly bi-annual, issue with this theme. (The first was our […]
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