Connecticut Museums
February 28, 2017
by Richard A. Kissel (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2016/17 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As its heavy wheels slowly came to rest, the train carriage could retain its guest no longer. The gentleman’s heel greeted the […]
December 1, 2016
By Ethan Manis (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2016 SUBSCRIBE! In 1949, 19-year-old William Daniels was working at United Novelty Company, a manufacturing company in Biloxi, Mississippi. In that era, gasoline was used routinely as […]
October 5, 2016
By Diantha Dow Schull SUMMER 2009 Connecticut’s cultural and educational institutions are positioned to help mediate one of the greatest bio-demographic changes in history: the aging of the population. They can offer historical and cultural […]
October 5, 2016
By Susan P. Schoelwer SUMMER 2009 One of the most intriguing early American depictions of the stages of life emerged from the hands of a young Connecticut woman, driven from her family’s home by […]
August 31, 2016
By Kristin P. Havill (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Why do such disparate audiences as gardeners, artists, dogs and their owners, and students of religious and holocaust history visit the Bellamy-Ferriday […]
July 26, 2016
Re: Collections: Mastodon Frenzy (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2007/2008 By Elizabeth Collins By the 18th century, a massive, meat-eating elephant was haunting people’s dreams. Shawnee and Delaware tribal tales of meat-eating beasts hunted by giant […]
February 24, 2016
By Sarajane Cedrone (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2015-2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Nestled in a corner of CCSU’s Institute of Technology and Business Development in downtown New Britain is what Karen Hudkins describes as “Connecticut’s best-kept […]