Believed to be the oldest house in Orange, the Bryan-Andrew…
ReadAfter some 350 years, the matter of where exactly some of the state’s boundaries lie continues to be debated.
ReadDeep within the woods of Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington are…
ReadHartford’s own leading lady was a lively entertainer whose career spanned over five decades and whose generosity spilled over to various and numerous charities.
ReadThe first time this founding father traveled through Connecticut, he was an ambitious Virginia colonel hoping to advance his career in the British military. When he last visited Connecticut, he was the first president of the new United States.
ReadWalnut Grove is the former estate of the Hammond family,…
ReadFrank Duryea was a long-time Madison resident who helped develop…
ReadThe brownstone quarries in Portland, Connecticut, owe their existence to…
ReadJohn Howard Hale came from a family of fruit growers in Glastonbury and developed a new type of peach that flourished in the harsh New England climate.
ReadHervey Brooks was an American potter and farmer who made red earthenware domestic products in Goshen for more than half a century.
ReadHundreds of American Indians served as mariners, including on the Stonington schooner ‘Breakwater,’ which survived capture in the Falkland Islands.
ReadJohn Brown of Torrington used violence to oppose the spread of slavery prior to the Civil War, ultimately leading a bloody raid on the armory in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
ReadMore than something to sit on, “fancy chairs” were emblems of social mobility for middle-class Americans.
ReadOn May 7, 1909, Edwin Herbert Land, founder of the…
ReadA 28-year-old nurse from Hartford, Ruth Hovey served on the battlefields of World War I.
ReadIn 1900, in answer to a customer’s rush order for something “quick and delicious,” Louis Lassen of New Haven served up a meal that is credited as being the first hamburger.
ReadMost barns still on the Northeast landscape are New England-style barns from the 19th century and later.
ReadCanon Clinton Jones was a central figure in Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ community and a pioneer for compassionate care, queer visibility, and gender affirmation in the mid-20th century.
ReadFrom the mid-1800s to the present, Jews have called Connecticut’s capital city home and enriched it with their cultural traditions and civic spirit.
ReadIn their respective tragic but inspiring final American acts, Yung and the Mission reflect the worst and best of the Chinese Exclusion Act era.
ReadDave Brubeck was one of the leading jazz pianists and composers of the 1950s and 60s and made his home in Wilton.
Read…that Connecticut’s Reverend Birdsey Grant Northrop popularized Arbor Day celebrations…
ReadThe New England factory town of Collinsville, which can still be toured today, once supplied the world with axes, machetes, and other edge tools.
ReadIn 1760, this Killingworth minister and farmer published the first agricultural advice book in the British American colonies.
ReadOver the five decades Edith Watson traveled around North America, her keen eye and box camera lens captured the otherwise untold stories of women, providing a unique perspective on the humblest of lives.
ReadThe history of textile manufacturing in eastern Connecticut is well…
ReadHer statues honor the famous, from Thomas Hooker and Helen Keller to Alice Cogswell, the first pupil of what became The American School for the Deaf.
ReadWhile it is not uncommon in the modern era for…
ReadThe seemingly contradictory calls to use or preserve the state’s natural resources are, in fact, closely related efforts that increasingly work in tandem—but not without conflict.
ReadFrom farming and war work to physics and sports, the University of Connecticut has diversified over the years and become New England’s leading public university.
ReadFrench Impressionists celebrated their new modern lives, but American Impressionists looked instead to a New England countryside like that in Connecticut for evidence of a stable, timeless order beneath the dazzle of the ephemeral.
Read…that the Shakers of Enfield first packaged seeds in small…
ReadReformer Vivien Kellems fought her most famous battle against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as she sought tax reform for businesses and single people.
ReadShe performed in concert halls where blacks could not be seated, traveled to performances in segregated Jim Crow railroad cars, and, despite it, emerged as one of the great singers of the 20th century.
ReadOver 100 years ago, residents of the Moosup section of…
ReadOliver Wolcott served in military in the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution, but was also a popular member of the Continental Congress and governor of Connecticut.
ReadIn the 1920s, when aviation was still in its infancy, most pilots navigated using road maps and by following highways, rivers, and other landmarks that they could see from the air.
ReadThe life of Charles Dow, in many respects, follows the…
ReadMark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and used his “good-natured” and “devoted” servant, George Griffin, as a likely model for one of literature’s most memorable figures—Jim, the runaway enslaved man.
ReadAbraham Ribicoff rose from a New Britain tenement to become Connecticut’s first Jewish governor and a confidant of President John F. Kennedy.
ReadThe Hartford City Parks Collection comprises a rich archive, documenting Hartford’s pioneering effort to establish and maintain a viable system of municipal parks and connecting parkways between them.
ReadSome Connecticut River towns continue to hold an annual shad festival, replete with a “Shad Queen” and a feast known as a “shad planking.”
Read…that a storied Naugatuck business had its own “navy” and…
ReadAfter over one hundred years, Bristol’s Muzzy Field continues to welcome ball players and fans of sports history.
ReadSamuel Lovett Waldo was an early 19th-century portrait artist who worked among such famous colleagues as John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and John Singleton Copley.
ReadFrom makers of gun boats to bakers of ship biscuits, companies across the Nutmeg state helped keep the Union navy afloat while sea-savvy leaders and sailors from the state kept it in fighting form.
ReadIn 1894, a well-to-do Norwich family set sail from New London on a ship outfitted with Persian rugs, oil paintings, a library with hundreds of titles, and 75 cases of champagne.
ReadMusic played a central role in fraternal rituals and sense of community.
ReadAuthoring and illustrating dozens of books, such as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘In the Night Kitchen,’ Maurice Sendak redefined children’s literature throughout the 20th century.
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