Winter 2024-25
December 1, 2024
Rolling Out the Welcome Mat In February 2024, Governor Ned Lamont issued gubernatorial proclamations declaring Connecticut the “Home of America’s Best Pizza” and New Haven the “Pizza Capital of America,” declarations Representative Rosa DeLauro read […]
December 1, 2024
By Michelle Cheng and Chelsea Garth Sharing food brings communities together. Food can nourish us, offer comfort, help us celebrate special occasions, and inspire us to pass down stories and traditions. The Fairfield […]
December 1, 2024
By Kelsie Dalton The Cos Cob Art Colony emerged as the cradle of American Impressionism in 1890, when the first classes from the Art Students League of New York hopped on trains to bucolic Cos […]
December 1, 2024
By Katherine Hermes and Alexandra Maravel Roger Williams’s A Key into the Language of America, first published in London in 1643, is one of the earliest English sources on southern New England Algonquian language and […]
December 1, 2024
By Ramin Ganeshram For enslaved communities, resistance was necessary to maintain humanity, whether on a large scale like the Haitian Revolution or in small daily occurrences in a cookpot. New England codfish, dried and salted […]
December 1, 2024
By Mary M. Donohue The author would like to thank Ray Petersen for sharing his family archives with her. From the moment you enter A. C. Petersen Farms Restaurant, the excitement builds. As you grab […]
December 1, 2024
By Kathy Hermes Mark Twain once wrote, “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not” (Following the Equator, […]
December 1, 2024
In the Fall 2024 issue, a letter to the editor mentions General Joseph R. Hawley, erstwhile owner of The Hartford Courant, general, senator, representative, governor, and lots more. Your note quotes my father, J. Bard […]
December 1, 2024
By Andy Horowitz Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz interviews people who are bringing the past into the present. Tulmeadow Farm has been operating in West Simsbury since 1768. Don Tuller and his cousin Buzz represent […]