Contents

Volume 24/Number 1/Winter 2025-26

 

pg 9 Hog River Journal: One Good Storyteller after Another

By Kathy Hermes, Publisher

 

pg 10 From our Board President

By Kendall Wiggin

 

pg 11 Letters, & Etc.

 

pg 12 Making History with Noemi Santana

By Andy Horowitz

 

pg 14 Connecticut Humanities: Telling Connecticut’s Stories

By Tammy Denease

 

pg 16 Snapshots!

 

pg 18 Photo Essay: “From whence the fair and dark have equal birth”: Their Kindred Earth Revises the History of a Connecticut Town

By Jennifer Stettler Parsons

 

pg 24 When the Sea Told a Story: New Haven’s Ghost Ship Across the Centuries

By Josh Weizel

 

pg 28 A Pit of Vipers: Connecticut’s Copperheads and Bridgeport’s Farmer Riot

By Jaime Pettit

 

pg 32 Building Community Across Generations: Native American Storytelling Traditions

By Darlene Kascak and Irene Norman

 

Pg 36 The “Miller Excitement”: A Town at War with Itself

By Martin Kivell

 

pg 40 Letting the Records Speak: The Stories Inside the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s American Revolution Papers

By Amy Hietala

 

pg 44 Site Lines: Community Preservation in Bridgeport’s Washington Park

By Michael Forino

 

pg 46 Connecticut History for Kids: Award-Winning Storytellers from Connecticut

 

pg 47 Spotlight: News & Events from Partner Organizations