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Connecticut History for Kids: Pirates of the…Long Island Sound?

c) Connecticut Explored, Summer, 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Welcome to our page for young readers! In this issue we’re talking about…

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Your Favorite Places in Connecticut

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Student Citizen Historians

Five years ago, “citizen historians” in Connecticut were recruited to examine how the Holocaust was covered in local newspapers. The…

August 26, 2022
Kids Page: Jackie Robinson Changes the Game
May 23, 2022
The First Immigrants, the English
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Kids’ Page: Saving a Bridge with Flowers
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Maud Maxson Writes Home
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Art for Everyone
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Calling all Shakespeare fans! Pequot Library invites you to their exhibition opening reception for "How William Became Shakespeare," Thursday, October 5.Oct. 5 at 6:00 p.m.: You're invited to our Exhibition Opening Reception | Shakespearean Futures Panel Discussion and Keynote Presentation with Pulitzer Prize Prize-winning historian @s_greenblatt! Learn more: buff.ly/3EimtBX. Click here to read about Greenblatt's rebellion and how it led him to the Colbert Report: buff.ly/456wc9w. ...
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By Andra Chantim (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Down Old Saybrook’s main street, just past the bustling section of shops and restaurants, as the street begins to return to a quieter residential neighborhood, stands the James Gallery & Soda Fountain. Once the loc...
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By Mary M. Donohue and Whitney Bayers (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Black churches have long been at the forefront in the battle for social progress and equality. Since the end of the 18th century, African Americans worked to organize Christian congregations that...
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Katherine Hermes, Ph.D., J.D., publisher of Connecticut Explored magazine and Professor of History, Emerita, at Central Connecticut State University, will deliver a talk, “Forgotten Voices of the Revolutionary War: People of Color and the Redding Encampment, 1778-1779,” Monday, October 16, at 5 p.m. in the Kelley Center, sponsored by the History Department.

Dr. Hermes worked as part of a team of scholars and media specialists researching the lives of “forgotten voices” from the Revolutionary War winter encampment at what is now Putnam Memorial State Park, in Redding, CT. She will highlight the lives of soldiers like Daniel Mossock, a Tunxis tribal member from Farmington, Jack Arrabus, an African American soldier from New Haven who sued for his freedom, and Judith Lines, a widowed Indigenous and African American camp follower from Windham who received her own pension after the war.

This talk derives from a National Park Service Battlefield Interpretation grant awarded to CRIS Radio- Connecticut Radio Information System, a 43-year-old nonprofit radio-reading service, to create an accessible smartphone audio tour of the Revolutionary War winter encampment. crisaccess.org/forgotten-voices-of-the.../
In addition to the CRIS Radio audio production team, the project included archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, archivists, and graduate students who researched the roles of soldiers of color, and the civilian women, Native Americans, and African Americans who helped the soldiers survive the harsh winter of 1778-79 at the site.
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CRISAccess clients are diverse, from aquariums to art museums, yet they all seek a common goal – to make their exhibits come to life! We helps our clients achieve that goal with our human-narrated audio tours in English and Spanish.
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By Sarajane Cedrone (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2015 Hannah Gray took advantage of the limited work opportunities available to her in the late 19th century in her adopted city of New Haven and, through her hard work and generosity, created a philanthropic legacy that continues to this day. The Ha...
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Grating the Nutmeg: 145. Activists Paul and Eslanda Robeson in Connecticut
In the Summer 2022 issue of Connecticut Explored, author and historian Steve Thornton of the Shoeleather History Project brings us the story of the internationally-renown activist, actor, and singer Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda, an anthropologist, author and activist in her own right. The Robes...
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By Liz Warner (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2008/2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! More than a century before the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the Bemans of Middletown, Connecticut were activists devoted to the struggle for equal opportunities for African Americans in the job market, schoo...
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Say hi if you’re at the Naugatuck Harvest Moon Festival! We’re here both Friday and Saturday! We’re by the Paradise Island Food truck. ...
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You can’t find a better local story about baseball, family, and community than that of the Springer family of New Britain. In this episode, Natalie Belanger chats with George Springer, Jr. George is a very proud dad. His daughters Nicole and Lena played collegiate softball, and both went on to play for the Puerto Rican National team. His son, George Springer III, plays right field for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2017, when he played for the Houston Astros, he was an MLB All-Star and named World Series MVP.

This fall the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is hosting the Smithsonian traveling exhibition ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas. It explores the historic role that baseball has played as a social and cultural force within Latino communities across the world, and how Latinos in particular have influenced and changed the game.
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🎶Check out this three-day, history-based music festival at Keeler Tavern! 🎶

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Keeler Tavern Museum in Ridgefield, CT provides educational and cultural programs on colonial life, exhibitions and public events in our carriage house, and a garden for hosting special events.
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By Barbara Donahue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Dozens of Connecticut towns played some part in the mid-19th-century drama of the Underground Railroad, but Farmington claims a starring role, with a wealth of authenticated “Railroad” sites and stories. An autum...
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Jordan Jackson, a Grating the Nutmeg Podcast listener and lighthouse fan, shares her first-hand account of visiting the Sheffield Island Lighthouse in Norwalk Harbor in our newest episode!

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The Connecticut Freedom Trail was established by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1995 to recognize African Americans’ and other minority populations’ fight for freedom and social equality in the state.
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