Winter 2022-23

By Benie N’sumbu (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I attended Connecticut public schools since kindergarten, but it wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I finally had the option […]

By William Devlin  (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mike Allen has that radio voice. The kind that makes you want to listen. That lets you know you’re in the hands of […]

By Dennis Culliton (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When I was a child growing up in southern Massachusetts I was fascinated by New England history and curious about the colonial and […]

M. Stephen Miller (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut’s built environment has a great number and variety of works to delight the eye and the mind. Many of these are readily […]

By Alex Dubois (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Between 1916 and 1938 Charles R. Hale dedicated himself to locating and documenting Connecticut’s old burying grounds and cemeteries. Beginning as a chart […]

By Elizabeth Rose (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer working with the largest healthcare workers union in Connecticut, District 1199/SEIU, and the Greater Hartford Labor […]

CT History for Kids Celebrating Connecticut’s Student Citizen Historians (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In this issue, we’re honoring “citizen historians,” ordinary people who become experts on the past. Citizen historians […]

By Nancy R. Savin   (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! At the intersection of Route 85, the Hartford-New London Turnpike, and Route 161 in Montville a gently sloping hillside site lies unseen […]

By Richard Curtiss (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the summer of 1944 the Farmington Valley was alive with the sights and sounds of a thriving tobacco industry. Clouds of dust […]

By Robyn Johnson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I am on a mission to preserve the stories of attorneys of color. I believe history is important to four journey—past, present, and future. […]

  Sapere aude! Dare to know! (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The philosopher Emmanuel Kant claimed this as the motto for the Age of Enlightenment, but it applies to our age […]

By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2022-23 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mathew Lyon (1749-1822) came to Woodbury from Ireland in 1764 at age 15 as a “redemptioner” agreeing to be “sold” on his […]