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The Baseball Playograph
By Gregg Mangan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In an era…
Connecticut’s Lost Ski Areas
By Diane Pflugrad Foley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The 10-year-old…
A Family Affair: The Manchester Road Race
By Christopher Pagliuco (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Manchester Road…
The McCook Boys Collect Baseball Cards
By Beverly Lucas (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Kids have been…
Whaler Mania
By Brian Codagnone (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! June 19, 2006…
How ESPN Came to Bristol
By David Nagle (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It is hard…
Marshall “Major” Taylor & William Fenn: The Fastest Men on Two Wheels
By Bill Pierce (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Monday, October 5,…
Destination: Ingalls Rink and the Yale Bowl
By Patrick Pinnell (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For structures designed…
Cricket Comes to Hartford
By Stan Walker (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the collection of…
Workers: Play Ball!
By Laura Smith (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2013-2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All images from the…
The Old Connecticut Game of Wicket
By Alexander Dubois (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By the end…
Walter Camp, The Father of American Football
By Warren Goldstein (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This story is…
African American Greats in Connecticut Baseball
By Steve Thornton (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For generations sports…
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…
Racing at Charter Oak Park
By Gene Leach (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Along the border…
The Midway Golf Club
By Jeffrey Mainville (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1963 a…
Site Lines: Golf at Hill-Stead
By Melanie Bourbeau with Tracey Angels and Anthony Pioppi (c) Connecticut Explored inc. Summer 2018…
Pleasure Boating on the Connecticut River
By Brenda Milkofsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 During the War of 1812 Captain…
Summer 2018: Escaping the Summer Heat
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The Meriden Buzz Saw: Kid Kaplan Pulls Himself Up by his Boxing Gloves
by David Kluczwski (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Kaplan came to…
The Nation’s Oldest High-School Football Rivalry
by Geoff Serra (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A photograph in…
Girls Can Play, Too!: Women’s Basketball in Connecticut
by Elizabeth Lewis (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A woman living…
A Short History of Connecticut’s Racetracks
by Allan E. Brown (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It wasn’t…
The Hartford Dark Blues
by David Arcidiacono (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Robert Ferguson (1845-1894)…
I Called Him Mr. Hurley
By Charles A. Teale, Sr. (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I dropped…
Whalers Fans and Our New Name
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Welcome to…
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