Landscape/Environment
September 1, 2024
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March 1, 2023
By Justin Piccirillo (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1869, just two years after Meriden was incorporated as a city, wealthy industrialist Walter Hubbard acquired his first parcel of land within the […]
May 23, 2022
By Maggie Dimock (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In a letter scribbled on stationery from The Players club in New York in the winter of 1902, now held in the Holley-MacRae […]
May 23, 2022
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! George Washington visited Connecticut a handful times before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. In his earlier visits, he took the coastal […]
May 17, 2022
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Stephen Tyng Mather was born and educated in California, but he considered the ancestral 1778 Mather homestead in Darien his true home. […]
February 25, 2022
Saving a Bridge with Flowers 130 years ago Simsbury got a new bridge. The old bridge was made of wood and had become unsafe. The new bridge was built in 1892 of metal. Metal bridges […]
February 25, 2022
By W. Phillips Barlow (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! At the northern end of Bridgeport is a beautiful park that today reads as a well-preserved piece of unspoiled nature. But it […]
August 24, 2021
By Beverly Lucas (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Established in 1864, in the midst of the Civil War, Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford encompasses 270 acres of landscaped memorial grounds designed […]
July 26, 2021
By Odell Shepard, with introduction by Rick Sowash (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Odell Shepard (1884-1967) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Connecticut author, the James J. Goodwin Professor of English Literature at […]
July 13, 2021
By John Ramsey (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the early 1960s tensions between the world’s two superpowers, the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., were at an all-time high, culminating with the […]
July 13, 2021
By Paula Gibson Krimsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue Frederick Gunn, the iconoclastic founder of The Gunnery, now the Frederick Gunn School, an independent boarding and day school in Washington, Connecticut […]
May 19, 2021
By Alexander Dubois (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mine Hill in Roxbury, Connecticut is a testament to both natural force and human effort. It was here that natural processes occurring over […]
April 6, 2021
By Mary Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Listen to the episode! Visitors have been enchanted by the thousands of soft and fragrant rose petals in Elizabeth Park’s rose garden since it opened in 1904. Climbing […]
February 27, 2021
By Robert Baron (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! From the time of Connecticut’s charter in 1662 to the present, the state’s boundaries have posed many challenges for those of us who […]
February 15, 2021
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2021 Sometimes, what we wear has a devastating impact on the environment. A good example is what we wear on our heads. In colonial times men’s hats often were made […]