Don’t Take Our Word For It!
By Elizabeth Normen There is perhaps nothing more powerful than personal testimony, and so, in…
Browsing: Hog River Journal
Fall 2021: Victorian Connecticut—”Excess and Empire”
HOG RIVER JOURNAL: Fall 2021 — “Excess and Empire” (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021…
No Place Like Home – Summer 2021
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This issue’s…
Take a Hike!
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When I…
Our Readers Still Love Print — But Virtual is Good, Too
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Winter…
Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of World War II
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! We salute our…
Connecticut & the Vote to Ratify the 19th Amendment
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the critical…
The Congregational Church: Nothing More Connectican
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In what…
What About the Struggle for Black Suffrage in Connecticut?
By Ramin Ganeshram and Elizabeth Normen LINK to Op-Ed as it appeared in The Hartford Courant,…
Disrupters in Small Packages
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Disruptions are…
Venture & Meg Smith–A Connecticut Family
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Family” is the…
Contested Land–An Issue Full of Surprises
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When we…
Spring 2019: Water–Connecticut’s Big Story
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Spring 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE Give a Gift/Become…
Are You Fanning Your Creative Spark?
By Elizabeth Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2018-2019 Long before I discovered a…
Where the Constitution of 1818 Fell Short
By Elizabeth Normen SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE This special issue commemorating the 200th anniversary of the…
Sports Give Connecticut a National Profile
By Elizabeth J. Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2018 Sports have a way of…
Connecticut history revealed down a long driveway, under 10 feet of water, and in a barn
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE I’m a sucker for a property…
A Valentine to You
by Elizabeth Normen Happy Valentine’s Day! What better theme is there as we celebrate our…
CTExplored Featured on WTNH with Ann Nyberg!
WTNH’s Ann Nyberg recently interviewed Betsy Fox about Connecticut-made cocktail shakers, the subject of Betsy’s…
60 issues, 3,800 pages, Hundreds of Stories
by Elizabeth J. Normen, Fall 2017 With this issue, Connecticut Explored celebrates its 15th anniversary!…
Connecticut’s First Prohibition Law
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 The theme of this issue—food…
Connecticut in World War I, Part II
By Elizabeth J. Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2017 This issue is produced…
CT Explored Fighting “Fake History” With New Textbook for Third/Fourth Grade
We’re as shocked as anyone that some students in Connecticut are reading a whitewashed history…
The Influence of Connecticut in the American West
By Leah S. Glaser (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Winter 2016-2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut Explored…
True Crime Stories
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2016 Our Puritan forefathers dealt with…
We’ll Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends
By Elizabeth J. Normen As our Fall issue went to press, we receive word that, due…
Even with History, Go Local
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2016 Anyone who knows historian Bill Hosley…
Our Hard-Won Right to Vote
by Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In this presidential…
Launched from a Connecticut Kitchen
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2015-2016 In the Winter 2015-2016 issue,…
Time, Talent, Treasure
By Elizabeth J. Normen FALL 2015 I was raised in a philanthropic family. That doesn’t…
Historic Preservation: It’s not just about buildings
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2015 Is historic preservation only about saving old buildings from…
The Upside to Our Proximity to New York City
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Spring 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One upside to…
WWI’s Impact on Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014/2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Knowledge Wins!” proclaims…
Can You Trust What You Read?
By Elizabeth J. Normen Fall 2014 It’s starting to feel a bit like the Wild…
Why Connecticut Didn’t Go Dutch
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2014 2014 marks the 400th anniversary of Adriaen Block’s 1614…
Is it Best to be First?
By Elizabeth J. Normen Spring 2014 Here’s why I’m wary of claims of being “first”…
How Times Have Changed–or Have They?
By Elizabeth J. Normen Winter 2013-2014 How often do you shake your head and think,…
A Swedish Yankee in Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen Fall 2013 In our Fall 2012 10th Anniversary issue we explored…
Why the Sperm Whale is our State Animal
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2013 The sperm whale was designated the Connecticut state animal…
Discovering Historic Connecticut Landscape–On Your Bike!
By Elizabeth J. Normen Spring 2013 One of my new favorite things to do on…
The Emancipation Proclamation: Who Celebrated in Connecticut?
By Elizabeth J. Normen Winter 2012-2013 True or False: ____ Connecticut was a slave colony/state…
Our Own Connecticut Way
By Elizabeth J. Normen FALL 2012 In the Fall 2012 issue we again examine one…
Why the War of 1812 Was Good for Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2012 Anniversaries provide a wonderful impetus for refreshing our understanding…
Nutmegger or Connectican?
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The spring…
STORIES FROM THE HOG RIVER
An Apple a Day There’s something deliciously macabre about the history of healthcare. Shivers ran…
An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age: The Hartford Art School
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The World’s Fair…
Pastimes and Great Baseball Memories
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2003 Subscribe/Buy Back Issues! A common…
Do We Try too Hard to Preserve the Past?
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Built It/Razed It…
Introducing the Magazine of Connecticut History
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2002 NOTE: Connecticut Explored began in fall 2002 as Hog…