VOLUME 23/NUMBER 1/WINTER 2024–2025

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Connecticut Explored

Connecticut history, one good story after another.

IN THIS ISSUE: Eat Up!

Contents

Volume 23/Number 1/Winter 2024–2025

pg 9 Hog River Journal: Food for Thought

By Kathy Hermes

pg 10 Letters, etc.

pg 12 Connecticut Humanities: Salt Cod: Resistance and Agency in Caribbean American Cuisine?

By Ramin Ganeshram

pg 14 Making History with Don Tuller

By Andy Horowitz

pg 16 Snapshots!

pg 18 Photo Essay: “You Can Imagine What a Feast We Had”: Dinner at the Cos Cob Art Colony

By Kelsie Dalton

pg 24 The Farm Workers’ Movement from California to Connecticut

By Arianna Basche

pg 28 What the Wangunk Drank

By Katherine Hermes and Alexandra Maravel

pg 34 The Genealogy of the Washington Food Market

By David W. Babington

pg 38 Have You Eaten Yet?

By Michelle Cheng and Chelsea Garth

pg 42 Site Lines: Frozen in Time: A. C. Petersen Farms

By Mary M. Donohue

pg 45 Connecticut History for Kids: What’s for Lunch?

pg 46 Spotlight: News & Events from Partner Organizations