Best of Elizabeth Normen
September 6, 2016
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2016 Our Puritan forefathers dealt with crime swiftly and harshly. Punishment, not incarceration, was their preferred method of bringing a wayward lamb back into the fold. […]
April 5, 2016
African American Connecticut Explored Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools With Selected Grade-Appropriate Essays Normen, Elizabeth, Stacey Close, Katherine J. Harris, and Wm Frank Mitchell, ed. African American Connecticut Explored. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University […]
March 31, 2016
by Clarissa J. Ceglio, Janice Matthews, & Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! If a town is lucky enough to still have a one-room schoolhouse, the community invariably has a […]
February 26, 2016
by Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In this presidential election year, we decided to focus our spring issue on stories about voting rights and civic engagement. These stories remind […]
February 24, 2016
By Elizabeth Normen and David Corrigan (c) CT Explored Inc., WINTER 2015/16 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In this photo essay we celebrate six iconic brands that Connecticut can claim as having fostered—some of them so ubiquitous you never […]
September 15, 2013
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2013 https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/connecticut-explored In our Fall 2012 10th Anniversary issue we explored Connecticut’s enduring reputation as The Land of Steady Habits—a term that stood for nearly 200 […]
March 1, 2003
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2003 Subscribe/Buy Back Issues! A common thread running through the Spring 2003 issue on Pastimes is the sense of community that leisure-time activities engendered or were […]
September 25, 2002
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Built It/Razed It is the theme of the Winter 2003 issue, in which we look at some of Greater Hartford’s significant historic structures […]
August 24, 2002
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2002 NOTE: Connecticut Explored began in fall 2002 as Hog River Journal: Hartford and the region’s magazine of history, culture, and the arts. By fall 2009, we’d changed our name […]