Summer 2021

May 19, 2021

Mine Hill and the Lost Village of Chalybes

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 […]
May 19, 2021

Ed Logue and Urban Renewal in New Haven

By Lizabeth Cohen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. This story is adapted from Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Lizabeth Cohen. © 2019 by Lizabeth Cohen. […]
May 19, 2021

Norwich’s Millionaires’ Triangle

By Tricia Staley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A vice president of the United States, governor of Connecticut, congressmen, generals, major manufacturers and merchants, the head of a major pharmaceutical company, […]
May 19, 2021

The Reverend Richard A. G. Foster’s Unheralded Sojourn in New Haven

By Benjamin Foster Jr. (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By 1940 African Americans constituted a growing segment of New Haven’s population. In response to manufacturers’ need for workers during World War […]
May 19, 2021

Seeking Racial Equity in Norwalk’s Village Creek

  By Natalie Belanger (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A small community in Norwalk has been doing the work of seeking racial equity since 1949. A casual visitor to Village Creek […]
May 19, 2021

Betty Knox and the Greening of Hartford

By Kevin Flood (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Anyone involved in the civic life of Hartford has likely come across the name Knox, whether in the form of KNOX Inc., an […]
May 19, 2021

Site Lines: Constance Baker Motley’s Chester Retreat

By Marta Daniels (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 2019 the State Historic Preservation Office formally dedicated the Chester property of Judge Constance Baker Motley as the Connecticut Freedom Trail’s 140th […]
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