Historic Holiday Recipes
Listen to Grating the Nutmeg Episode 61! State historian Walt Woodward interviews Keith Stavely and…
Browsing: The Sampler
THE SAMPLER: The Revolution of 1818
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE The Constitution…
COVER STORY: Pleasure Boating on the Connecticut River
By Brenda Milkofsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 During the War of 1812 Captain…
Mad for Mid-Century Modern in Connecticut
Listen to Grating the Nutmeg episode 48 and follow along with these images, all taken…
SAMPLE STORY: Site Lines–Finding “Isabel”
By Nicholas DeLong (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 On the night of September 28,…
“First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage”
By Christina Keyser Vida (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2017-2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Here we…
Greater Hartford NAACP: 100 Years in the Freedom Struggle
By Stacey Close (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2017 SUBSCRIBE / BUY THE ISSUE On…
The Sampler: Connecticut Oystering
By Rachel Thomas-Shapiro (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE Mystic, Blue Point,…
The SAMPLER: Remembering World War I
By Christine Pittsley (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2017 When you read about the United States…
The Sampler: Sam Colt Mines the Arizona Territory
By Leah S. Glaser Winter 2016-2017 (c) Connecticut Explored SUBSCRIBE! This article is adapted form…
The Sampler: Fall Cover Story–First Offender Club
By Michael C. Dooling (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2016 Over the course of a…
Grating the Nutmeg Podcast: Images from the 1659 Hollister Homesite Dig
Take an “earwitness” journey with Walt Woodward on the latest Grating the Nutmeg podcast (episode 13) to…
The Sampler: Shack Attack! Classic Roadside Eateries
By Mary M. Donohue SPRING 2012 LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST: Shack Attack! Summer Eats in…
SAMPLE ARTICLE: Top 10 Treasures from Connecticut’s Small Museums
By William Hosley (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2016 For me, small is BIG when it…
SAMPLE ARTICLE: The Anti-Income Tax Rally of 1991
By Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2016 SUBSCRIBE! With the signing of the state…
Grating the Nutmeg Podcast: Images of “The Conquest of America,” A WWI Cautionary Tale
This spring, Americans will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War…
SAMPLE STORY: Bigelow Tea–A Connecticut Tea Party
By Alan Bisbort (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2015-2016 Some companies have been tested by fire, some…
SAMPLE ARTICLE: Katharine Hepburn, Local Girl (Spring 2015)
By Tedd Levy SPRING 2015 In 1999 the American Film Institute named Katharine Hepburn one…
SAMPLE ARTICLE–Winter 14/15: New Haven’s Monuments Man
New Haven’s Monuments Man By Laura A. Macaluso In wartime, when the thoughts of…
SAMPLE ARTICLE–Fall 2014 Issue: The Political Fires that Fueled The Courant
The Political Fires that Fueled The Courant By Joseph F. Nunes The Hartford Courant’s 250th…
SAMPLE STORY–Fall 2015: A National Stage for Anne Rogers Minor
By William Hosley (c) Connecticut Explored. Fall 2015 One of the irrepressible joys of doing local…
SAMPLE ARTICLE–Summer 2014: State Archaeologist on 30 Years of Great Finds
Right Down the Street, and Right Beneath your Feet Connecticut Explored, Summer 2014. Purchase the…
Sikorsky–Still Revolutionary
By Alexander Soule (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2014 Subscribe to receive every issue! It was…
SAMPLE ARTICLE–Winter 13/14: The Mere Presence of a Gatling
The Mere Presence of a Gatling By David Corrigan Subscribe to receive the full issue!…
SAMPLE ARTICLE–Fall 2013: Connecticut’s Irish Domestics
(c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2013 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE By Neil Hogan The Irish were the…
SAMPLE ARTICLE: The Scandalous Luna Park
From the Summer 2013 issue. Click here to purchase the issue. CLICK HERE TO READ…
SAMPLE ARTICLE: Saving Mark Twain’s House
By Steve Courtney Click here to SUBSCRIBE and read the illustrated story in the Spring 2013…
Winter 2012/2013: Lincoln and The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Winter 2012/2013 Issue By Katherine Kane CLICK HERE TO READ A PDF OF THE ARTICLE…
The Unsteady Meaning of “The Land of Steady Habits”
By Walter W. Woodward, Fall 2012 Volume 10 Number 4 Why has “The Land of Steady…
RECENT ISSUE: What Was the War of 1812 All About?
SAMPLE ARTICLE: In his regular column, state historian Walt Woodward explains, in brief, what the…
RECENT ISSUE: WHY ARE CT’s BORDERS WHERE THEY ARE?
Our Spring 2012 issue was all about mapmaking. CLICK HERE to read about why our…
SAMPLE ARTICLE: Ebenezer Bassett’s Historic Journey
By Carolyn B. Ivanoff with Mary J. Mycek and Marian K. O’Keefe First published on…
SAMPLE ARTICLE: The Land of Steady Constitutional Habits
By Wesley Horton [originally published in the Fall 2012 issue] Connecticut has been governed for…
Site Lines: Monuments to Connecticut’s Lost County Government
By Paige Durgin FALL 2012 (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2012 County government operated in…
What Was That War About Again? Find out in the Summer Issue!
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. If you’re like me,…
New Book for Baseball History Fans
David Arcidiacono, who wrote about the Hartford Dark Blues baseball team in our Spring 2003…
STORIES FROM THE HOG RIVER
Here’s what our readers have shared about their experiences with the Hog River, beginning with…