Notable Connecticans

February 1, 2025

Miss Crandall’s School for Black Women

Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
January 15, 2025

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir with Griffin Dunne

Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
August 31, 2024

Phyllis Zlotnick: Paving the Way to a More Accessible Connecticut

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August 15, 2024

Results of the John Mason Monument Survey

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May 31, 2024

Summer 2024 Table of Contents

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

RJM: Walter Woodward’s Testimony

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May 31, 2024

Sitelines: Restoring the Gallaudet Monument

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March 1, 2023

Hubbard Park, Meriden’s Crown Jewel

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

John Henry Twachtman Adopts Greenwich

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

Site Lines: The Robesons Move to Enfield

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

Architect Kevin Roche, Shaping Environments

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

Grace King: A Southern View of Twain’s Hartford

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

The U.S. National Park Service’s Founder, Director, and Champion

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

William Lanson, An Artisan Who Built Beyond Structures

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

Counterfeiter William Stuart, Hero of His Own Story

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 […]
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