Summer 2022

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 23, 2022

Buckminster Fuller, Bridgeport, and the Car of Tomorrow

By Charlie McMahon (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As with any budding technology, in the early decades of car manufacturing experimentation was the norm. Bridgeport was the site of two notable […]
May 23, 2022

George Washington in Connecticut

By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! George Washington visited Connecticut a handful times before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. In his earlier visits, he took the coastal […]
May 23, 2022

Frederick Douglass in New London

By Thomas Schuch (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “It is by no means a grateful task to abolitionize Connecticut. As a state, it will probably be the last to be reformed,” […]
May 23, 2022

The West Indian Social Club, A Home Away From Home

By Fiona Vernal (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! According to its founding charter, The West Indian Social Club of Hartford (WISC) will celebrate its 72nd anniversary in October 2022. One of […]
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

The Hindenburg Flies Over Bridgeport

By Carolyn Ivanoff (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the early years of flight, zeppelins were massive, rigid-framed, fabric-covered airships that captured the world’s imagination. Named for German Count Ferdinand von […]
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

Photographing Wartime Connecticut

By Mary M. Donohue and Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All images are courtesy of the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of […]
May 17, 2022

Summer 2022: Letters, etc.

(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Pretty in Pink in Stony Creek” (Spring 2022) did not mention that Hartford’s Wallace Stevens Walk uses 13 unique markers, each carved from Stony Creek granite […]
May 17, 2022

Passing Through, Putting Down Roots — Summer 2022

By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In Winter 2011/2012 we decided to leave the State of Connecticut—editorially speaking—and explore stories about Connecticans who made their mark abroad. We […]
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. […]
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