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This lecture was presented by Dr. Leon Chameides for the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, Voices of Hope, and The Emanuel Synagogue. Learn more about Polish-Jewish history and how our guest Dr. Leon Chameides survived the Nazi occupation of Poland as a Jewish child. De...
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By Matthew Warshauer and Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Civil War has been memorialized more than any other conflict in America’s history. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust poignantly noted in This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American C...
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By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue When most people today hear the word “doughboy,” an image of the Pillsbury Company’s “Poppin’ Fresh” doughboy probably comes to mind rather than the American soldiers of World War I. The origin of the te...
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Watch at home!Now on YouTube! Did you miss our latest lecture? You can now watch a recording of "Send On My Compass and Chain: Surveying the Western Reserve" with Curator Alex Dubois on the Litchfield Historical Society YouTube Channel

Surveying parties were among the first new arrivals to set foot in the Western Reserve. Tasked with measuring the land and dividing it into townships, the surveyors created some of the earliest descriptions of “New Connecticut.” This talk examines the writings of surveyor Moses Warren Jr. and the successes, challenges, and tragedies experienced by his party.

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By Emily Bloom-Shufrin, Sophie Gandler, and Matt Levy (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Located in New London near the mouth of the Thames River, the Monte Cristo Cottage was the summer boyhood home of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill (1888 – 1953), ...
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Join Pequot Library for their Southport Garden Stroll (June 1 - 2).

Featuring several of Southport’s finest private gardens, this self-guided walking tour starts at the heart of Southport Village at the library. Pick up your tour map/program, browse local vendors and farms on the Great Lawn, then wind your way through a floral adventure in an idyllic seaside New England neighborhood!

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Grating the Nutmeg: 160. Saving Jewish Farming History in Chesterfield
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As a preservationist, I have always believed that if you knew about the history of a place, it would make you care more about it. And if you uncovered the history, you’d feel inspired by the stories of the people who came before you. This episode reveals the importance of “citizen historians” ...
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By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1882 the City of Hartford held a design competition for its proposed Civil War memorial. To be located in the city’s downtown gem, Bushnell Park, and within eyeshot of the shimmering white marble State Capitol, ...
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Unlock your creativity this summer by taking an art class at the NBMAA!

June studio classes and workshops include:

-Studio@4 | En Plein Air! (Ages 9-12)
Thursdays, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 4-5:30 p.m.

-Adult Studio | Portrait Painting with Antony Zito
Thursdays, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 5-7 p.m.

-Adult Studio Workshop | Sketch With the Masters
Sunday, June 4, 2-4 p.m.

-Adult Studio | Watercolor with Mary Smeallie
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-Watercolor Plein Air Workshop | Christina Corey
Saturday, June 10, 1-4 p.m.

Learn more and sign up for an art class at nbmaa.org/programs-events

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Site Lines: The Innovation of Palliser, Palliser & Company - Connecticut Explored
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By Emily Clark (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Driving through Bridgeport, one sees a mix of housing styles from mid-20th-century modest ranches and duplexes to centuries-old colonials and renovated seaside cottages. Among the most striking are the two-story Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne, and...
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By Todd Levine (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut’s own Eli Whitney is well known as the inventor of the cotton gin (invented before he came to Connecticut to start his rifle factory) and has long been credited with inventing mass-production techniques t...
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New Grating the Nutmeg Podcast episode now streaming! Listen: bit.ly/42NLijw

Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library speaks with filmmaker Gorman Bechard of What Were We Thinking Films, Inc., who's working on a documentary about Powder Ridge. In 1970, a planned 3-day rock concert at Powder Ridge in Middlefield was cancelled after an injunction by the town. But tens of thousands of young people showed up anyway and proceeded to have one hell of a party. Gorman peels back the many layers of this story, including a shady promoter, the town's grudge against a property owner, and the one famous musician who braved the police to show up and perform -- with an amp hooked up to a Mister Softee truck! #ct #history #podcast ...
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By Mary Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Stony Creek granite is one of Connecticut’s most sought-after building materials, one that represents the height of craftsmanship in some of the country’s most iconic structures, including the base of the Statue o...
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Coming see us at the CLHO conference! We’ll have a table in this beautiful space!The League is thrilled to host this year's conference at our home base, CCSU, for the first time since 2019. This year, sessions will be held in the brand-new Willard-DiLoreto Hall, and its sunny atrium will host our Museum Marketplace. New this year, attendees will receive passports that, once they visit each exhibitor, will enter them for special prizes. Register as an exhibitor today! clho.org/event-5202642 ...
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Today!#ThirdthursdayProgram #CTExplored On Thursday, May 18, 2023, Connecticut Explored Executive Director and Publisher Kathy Hermes will lead a discussion on some of the Greatest and Sometimes Most Difficult Stories to tell that are published in the magazine. In this discussion, Katherine will explain the history and goals of the magazine and some of the challenges of writing about the history that many readers want while honestly confronting the state's "hard history" in a magazine format. The Connecticut Explored magazine is a quarterly, non-profit glossy magazine that explores the state’s cultural heritage through intriguing images and compelling stories.

Katherine has created and been involved with several digital public history projects. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for American Indian Studies. She has an A.B. in History from the University of California at Irvine; a J.D. from Duke University School of Law; and a Ph.D. in History from Yale University. She taught early American history at the University of Otago in New Zealand (1992-1997) and at Central Connecticut State University (1997-2022), where she also served as Department Chair.

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The Summer issue arrived in our offices today. Look for it in your mailboxes very soon. We have great articles on islands both figurative and real in this issue. Connecticut Landmarks' Andy King has an article about the Palmer-Warner House, Matt Warshauer on the West Indies sugar trade, Kathy Hermes and Alex Maravel on Thirty Mile Island, Karen Ali on Puerto Rican migration to Willimantic, Lauren Curran on Pine Island, and Shaun Roche on Outer Island. We also have a new feature: Snapshots! You are gonna love it! ...
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