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The Political Fires that Fueled The Courant
By Joseph F. Nunes (c) Connecticut Explored Fall 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A…

Albert Pope and the Extraordinary Ordinary
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of…

Connecticut Guidebook Leads the Way
By Johnna Kaplan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The traveler along…

Borden Revolutionizes the Milk Business
By Charles Zanor (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the 1850s,…

The Kellogg Brothers Rival Currier & Ives
By Nancy Finlay (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On January 6,…

The Brass City Manufactures for Victory
By Raechel Guest (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Waterbury takes a…

Destination: Luddy/Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum
By Cynthia Cormier (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. May/Jun/Jul 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Shade-grown tobacco leaf…

“Whistling Death”: The Vought Corsair
By Jack Connors (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut has…

Pratt & Whitney: Dependable Engines Prepare for War
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When Frederick…

Civil War: Memorials to a Nation Preserved
By Matthew Warshauer and Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Coy Takes the Telephone to the Masses
By Elizabeth Holt (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Mr. Watson, come…

Amateur Radio and the American Radio Relay League
By Grace Burchard (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Have you ever…

Noah Webster’s Way with “WURDS”
By Jennifer DiCola Matos (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On February…

Mark Twain and the Phenomenon of Scrapbooks
By Ellen Gruber Garvey (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Back in…

NORMAN IVES and the ART of the LETTER
By Charles T. Clark (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 All images courtesy Norman S.…
Destination: Museum of Connecticut History
By Cynthia Cormier (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The 1910 white…

Destination: New Britain Industrial Museum
By Lois L. Blomstrann (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Though known…

Cheney Brothers: Innovations in Silk
By Charles B. Fears (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Cheney…

Horace Wells & The Discovery of Anesthesia
By William A. MacDonnell, D.D.S. (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It…

Horace Wells, Inventor of the Improved Shower Bath
By Richard C. Malley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Be it…

The Mother School of Deaf Education
By Gary E. Wait (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When the…

Catharine Beecher & Domestic Science
By Dawn C. Adiletta (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Not all…

Mark Twain, Inventor!
By Sujata Srinivasan (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Industrial America, with its…

Hard Times Tokens
By David Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1837 the…

The Danbury Square Box Company
By Diane Hassan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc Fall 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Images courtesy of…

re: Collections: Turning — Wheels, Reels, & Flutes
By Julie Frey (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Litchfield, Connecticut transformed…

How ESPN Came to Bristol
By David Nagle (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It is hard…

The Suspicious Colt Armory Fire
By Herbert G. Houze (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Colt…

re: Collections — Boring Made Easy
By David J. Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! David J.…

Sarah Boone Invents A Better Ironing Board
By Ainissa Ramirez (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! While I was…

Columbia Bicycles: The Vehicle of Healthful Happiness
RE: Collections — A Look at Objects in Collections By Richard C. Malley (c) Connecticut…

Site Lines: The Eric Sloane Museum Celebrates Craftsmanship
By Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2013-2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Labor in an…

The Reinvention of The New Haven Clock Company Factory
By Jason Bischoff-Wurstle (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As the transformative…

Ensign-Bickford: The Steady Evolution of a Connecticut Family Business
By Dawn Byron Hutchins (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Joseph Toy,…

The Swift Factory Shines Again
By Kerri A. Provost (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Forty years…

The Sampler: From Everyday to Nevermore
By David Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! “If you build…

Snappy Style from Beacon Falls: The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company
By David Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! After Connecticut native…

Connecticut Shapes the Intimate-Apparel Industry
By Elizabeth Pratt Fox (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2017-2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! The production…

Connecticut Women Fight for Reproductive Rights
By Barbara Sicherman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Fall 2017 On June 7, 1965, in…

200 Years of Deaf Education
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2017 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE The year was 1850; the place,…

Jim and Jane Henson Create the Muppets and More
SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE By Karen Falk and Karen Frederick (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Fall 2017…

New Haven’s Pizza Ingenuity
By Colin M. Caplan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 SUBSCRIBE/Buy the Issue Pizza is…

Connecticut’s Small Appliance Revolution
By Dave Corrigan and Karen Hudkins (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE…

The Gaiety of the Connecticut Cocktail Shaker
By Elizabeth Pratt Fox (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! From sipping…

The Two-Million-Dollar Map
By Nancy Finlay (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of the…

Discovering LaGardo Tackett
by F. Peter Swanson, M.D. (c) Connecticut Explored inc. WINTER 2010/11 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I…
Saddles Fit for a Shah
by Patrick Skahill (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2010/11 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1958, a…

How Connecticut-Made Guns Won the West
by Pamela Haag (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2016/2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! So far as…

Sam Colt Mines the Arizona Territory
by Leah S. Glaser (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2016/17 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This article…

Site Lines: Connecticut’s State Ship
by Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A…

Civil War: Connecticut Arms the Union
By Dean E. Nelson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A year…

The Depression Gave Us — The Buffet Server?
by David Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2010/11 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In September 1933,…

Woodbury: Zimri Moody, Cabinetmaker
by Elizabeth Pratt Fox and Lynn Friedman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2016 Subscribe/Buy the…

Orange: PEZ
By Jennifer LaRue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! How did PEZ,…

What’s Up With Stratford’s Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Plant?
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! If a…

Full Steam Ahead: Steamboat Travel in Connecticut
By Brenda Milkofsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Long Island Sound…

The Ill-Fated Farmington Canal
By Ellsworth S. Grant (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It was…

In Search of the Great Find! 18th and 19th Century American Antiques in Colchester, Connecticut.
by Briann Greenfield (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The converted Baptist…

Ovation Guitar
By Jennifer LaRue (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2008 Charlie Kaman made considerable contributions to the…

The Kent Iron Furnace
by Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Museum artifacts come…

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
by Lisa Guernsey (c) CONNECTICUT EXPLORED Inc. FALL 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue The insurance companies…

The Quarry That Built Boston and New York City
by Doe Boyle (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A paddler making…

The Bright Lights of Willimantic
By Tom Beardsley FALL 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On February 18, 1854, two prominent Connecticut…

A Century of Connecticut Inventions
by Dean Nelson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! President George Washington…

Frederick Rentschler: The Sky’s the Limit
by Jack Connors (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The imposing statue…

The Horseless Era Arrives
by Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc, SPRING 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By the mid-1890s…

Cheney Mills: Life in a Mill Town
by Mary Dunne (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! An employee of the…

The Miracle on Capital Avenue
By Ellsworth Grant (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. May/Jun/Jul 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The advance of…

New Britain Manufactures For the War Effort
by Lois L.Blomstrann (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By the time…

Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets
By Melissa Sirick (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Inventor and businesswoman,…

Site Lines: Making Places
By Sarajane Cedrone (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2015-2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Nestled in a corner…

The Simple Genius of the Audubon Bird Call
By Richard C. Malley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2015/16 Listen to Rich demonstrate…

International Silver Company Shines Once More
By Patricia F. Singer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2015/16 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When the International…

Electric Boat: Full Speed Into the Nuclear Age
By Barbara Nagy (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., WINTER 2015/16 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mike Toner graduated from…

Pepperidge Farm: Healthful Bread Builds a Business
By Cathryn J. Prince (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., WINTER 2015/16 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When the three…

Iconic Connecticut Brands
By Elizabeth Normen and David Corrigan (c) CT Explored Inc., WINTER 2015/16 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In…

Timex: Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking
By Emily Gifford (c) Connecticut Explored. Winter 2015-2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Timex Group is one…

Noah Webster: Father of American Copyright Law
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Noah Webster,…

Everyman’s Time: The Rise and Fall of Connecticut Clockmaking
By Donald Muller (c) CT Explored, Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As to the Yankee…

Bigelow Tea — A Connecticut Tea Party
By Alan Bisbort (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2015-2016 Shop/Buy the Issue! Some companies have been…

The Fuller Brush Company
By Vincent Michael Valvo (c) CT Explored, Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For the better…

Peter Paul’s Path to Sweet Success
By Gregg Pugliese (c) CT Explored, Spring 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Everyone remembers the famous…

Connecticut at the New York World’s Fair
By Jason Scappaticci (c) Connecticut Explored Inc ., Summer 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The 1964−1965 New…

Preserving Connecticut’s Aeronautical History
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Sometimes preservation means…

Selling Connecticut Products Abroad
By Briann Greenfield and Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2011/12 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Ivoryton
By Christopher Pagliuco (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the late…

Witch Hazel–Connecticut’s Wonder Shrub
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Quick: name…

Sikorsky–Still Revolutionary
By Alexander Soule (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2014 Subscribe to receive every issue! It was…
Is it Best to be First?
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Here’s why…

Noah Webster: Accent on an American Language
By Tracey Wilson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! innovate: to introduce…
Connecticut’s National Park Quest
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This wouldn’t…

We Made it!
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I was…

The Silicon Valley of the 19th Century
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Hartford was…

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FALL 2007 VOLUME 5 / NUMBER 4 IN THIS ISSUE: WE MADE IT! Rivaling Currier…

BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2005
SPRING 2005 VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 2 SPECIAL ISSUE: MADE IN CONNECTICUT Twain’s Love Affair…