Contested Land–An Issue Full of Surprises
When we decided to go with one-word themes for our issues this year (Winter 2018-2019:…
Browsing: Hog River Journal
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 Connecticut Explored invited CCSU history…
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 In this presidential election year, we…
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…
Connecticut Celebrities Through and Through
By Elizabeth J. Normen Spring 2015 One upside to Connecticut’s proximity to New York City…
WWI’s Impact on Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014/2015 “Knowledge Wins!” proclaims a World War I-era…
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?
The spring issue’s publisher’s letter is creating some buzz. Here’s what people are talking about:…
An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age: The Hartford Art School
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2003 https://www.ctexplored.org/subscribe/ “Afternoon Illustration Class”, 1914-1915 brochure…