Hurricanes Connie & Diane Deliver Double Hit – Who Knew?
August 12, 2017
…that Hurricanes Connie and Diane, which struck within days of each other in August 1955, exceeded the combined property damage... Read more » …[more]
Who Knew?
Landscape Architecture Helps in Healing – Who Knew?
April 24, 2017
…Hartford-born landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted re-designed the grounds on the campus of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane to... Read more » …[more]
Categories: Architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, Hartford, Health and Medicine, Who Knew?
War and the Fear of Enemy Aliens – Who Knew?
April 7, 2017
…that Greenwich had a special police unit trained to handle suspected foreign agents operating in Connecticut. …[more]
Categories: Emergence of Modern America, Great Depression and World War II, Greenwich, War and Defense, Who Knew?, World War I, World War II
One-Legged Stools – Who Knew?
February 1, 2017
. . . that Hazard Powder Company employees sat on one-legged stools to keep them from falling asleep while working... Read more » …[more]
Categories: Business and Industry, Civil War and Reconstruction, Enfield, Who Knew?
Colonel Augustus G. Hazard, Gunpowder Manufacturer – Who Knew?
January 12, 2017
…that Connecticut resident, Augustus G. Hazard owned and operated over 100 gunpowder mills in the Hazardville section of Enfield. Born... Read more » …[more]
Categories: Business and Industry, Civil War, Disaster, Enfield, Who Knew?
Mohawk Mountain Made Snow for Winter Sports Lovers – Who Knew?
January 7, 2017
…that in the early 1950s innovative Connecticut minds created the first documented artificial snow for the state’s skiers and sports... Read more » …[more]
Categories: Cornwall, Invention and Technology, Popular Culture, Sports and Recreation, Who Knew?
The Living Actually Haunted Many Connecticut Taverns – Who Knew?
December 28, 2016
Early Connecticut laws deemed anyone who spent excessive time in taverns as a "tavern haunter" and subjected them to fines and ridicule. …[more]
Categories: Crime and Punishment, Everyday Life, Food and Drink, Law, Popular Culture, Who Knew?
There’s No Place Like Home for the Designer of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers – Who Knew?
December 26, 2016
Connecticut-born Adrian, the American clothing designer who found success in Hollywood, designed Dorothy’s ruby slippers for The Wizard of Oz. …[more]
Categories: Arts, Naugatuck, Popular Culture, Who Knew?
Hartford Publishes the First Literary Work by an African American – Who Knew?
December 25, 2016
…that Jupiter Hammon, who endured life-long enslavement became the first African American writer to be published in America when his... Read more » …[more]
Categories: Colonization and Settlement, Hartford, Literature, Who Knew?
Waterbury Clock Company Saved by Mickey Mouse – Who Knew?
December 23, 2016
…that the Ingersoll Waterbury Company (now Timex) was saved from bankruptcy during the Great Depression, in part, by the introduction... Read more » …[more]
