Notable Connecticans
August 31, 2024
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August 15, 2024
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May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 Connecticut Explored Connecticut history, one good story after another IN THIS ISSUE: Monuments and Memory pg 9 Hog River Journal: Monuments and Monumental Arguments By Kathy Hermes pg 10 Guest Editor: […]
May 31, 2024
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May 31, 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 Steve Thornton (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Paul Robeson, world famous actor, singer, and activist, was of course not the first celebrity to move to Connecticut. But perhaps unlike many […]
May 17, 2022
By Robert Gregson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the documentary film Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect (2017), architect Robert A.M. Stern describes Kevin Roche as “irresistibly nice.” But nice as […]
May 17, 2022
By Miki Pfeffer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! With a critical eye and a rapier wit, Southern writer Grace King (1852 – 1932) scrutinized “Yankee” ways in Hartford from her perch […]
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 23, 2022
By Stacey Close (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1845 The Hartford Courant published a short article about William Lanson who, it said, was commonly known as “King Lanson.” It failed […]
November 29, 2021
By Morgan Bengel (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! William Stuart is a dynamic character in Connecticut’s history who has been identified in many different ways. Stuart recognized himself as a counterfeiter […]
November 27, 2021
By Bruce E. Hawley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! P. T. Barnum, the legendary showman, museum operator, and entrepreneur, was 41 years old in 1851. He had accumulated substantial wealth from […]
November 27, 2021
By Eve M. Kahn (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The life of Hartford-born painter Mary Rogers Williams (1857 – 1907), who was largely forgotten after her death, is documented in vibrant letters and […]