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The Orrin Freeman House and the
Spirit of ‘76
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Alex Gerrish
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Haddam
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Abigail Hinman: Heroine of the American Revolution or Legend?
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Rosa Ponselle: Meriden’s Famous Musical Daughter
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John Warner Barber’s Engravings Chronicle Connecticut History
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Emily Clark
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New Haven
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George Laurence Nelson: Artist of Kent’s Seven Hearths
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The Welcoming Warmth of Kent’s Seven Hearths
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Clare Boothe Luce Changed Perceptions about Women in Business and Politics
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Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Captures the Gilded Age in Norwalk
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The Lyman Allyn Opens – Today in History: March 2
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Actress Gwen Reed Best Remembered for Dedication to Childhood Literacy
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William Gillette’s Last Performance – Today in History: February 27
Discovering the Mysterious Identity of the “Kent Limner”
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The Open and Fortified Country of the Human Heart: A Victorian Lady’s View of Love
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Alexander Calder and Making Art Political
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Charles Ethan Porter, Portrait of a 19th-Century African American Painter
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Music Vale Seminary in Salem Credited as Being First in US
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Timothy Dwight Dies – Today in History: January 11
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Yukitaka Osaki and Gillette Castle: One of Hadlyme’s First Japanese Immigrants
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Hartford’s “Façade House”: The Unique Home of Chick Austin
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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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Connecticut Native American Arts
John Frederick Kensett Illuminates the 19th-Century Landscape
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[Archived] Goodspeed Opera House Opens – Today in History: October 24
Goodspeed Opera House Opens – Today in History: October 24
Laura Wheeler Waring: Renowned African American Portrait Artist and Educator
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A Metal Giant in Wilton
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Florence Griswold’s Home: A Story of Perseverance and Community
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Anson Dickinson: Milton’s Painter of Portrait Miniatures
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A Photographer with a Painter’s Eye: The Story of Nelson Augustus Moore
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Killingworth’s Automated Attraction – Who Knew?
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Julian Alden Weir: The “Heart” of American Impressionism
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Rock and Roll vs. Racism
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Pan-Harmonicum Strikes a New Note for Puritan Worship in Lebanon
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Breaking the Mold: Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Elbert Weinberg
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Past Perfect: Wallace Nutting Invents an Ideal Olde New England
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Sophie Tucker, The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas
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“Gentleman’s Farming” Comes to Waterford
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Hervey Brooks’s 19th-Century Pottery Barn
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“Take Five” with Dave Brubeck
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Edith Watson: Camera Artist
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Frances Laughlin Wadsworth: Sculpting the Past
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Connecticut and American Impressionism
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[Archived] Marian Anderson’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement
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Marian Anderson’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement
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Samuel Waldo Born – Today in History: April 6
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The Lebanon Grange Followed a Different Tune than National Movement
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Faith Trumbull: The Artist Was a Young Girl
Marietta Canty House
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Four Saints in Three Acts Debuts – Today in History: February 7
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Hartford’s Charles Dillingham Discovered Broadway Stars
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Jim Flora Captures 20th-Century Pop Culture
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“Tom Thumb” Born – Today in History: January 4
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There’s No Place Like Home for the Designer of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers – Who Knew?
Chief G’tinemong/Ralph W. Sturges
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Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Greenwich
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Chick Austin Modernizes a Connecticut Institution
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Thomas W. Nason, the Poet Engraver of New England
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Drawing (on) the Connecticut Landscape: Benjamin Hutchins Coe Teaches Americans the Democratic Art
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West Indians in Hartford
Yale University Art Gallery – Today in History: October 25
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A Celebrated Artist and a Meaningful Space – Today in History: October 20
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A Revolutionary Book Designer: Bruce Rogers of New Fairfield
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Calder’s Stegosaurus Dedicated – Today in History: October 10
Mariann Wolcott and Ralph Earl – Opposites Come Together and Make History
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Evelyn Beatrice Longman Commemorates the Working Class
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Art Young, Radical Cartoonist
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Martha Graham, Connecticut College, and the American Dance Festival
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Ralph Earl: Portrait of an Early American Artist
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Hope on the Wall: Connecticut’s New Deal Post Office Murals
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Connecticut Valley Style: Eliphalet Chapin Inspires a Tradition of Craft
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Herbert Abrams Immortalizes the Nation’s Leaders
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A World in Motion: Artist and Sculptor Alexander Calder
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Drawn to Superheroes
An Artist’s Life in Hartford: The Early Career of Dwight Tryon
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Stevan Dohanos Captures Connecticut Life
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North Haven: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s
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Ivoryton Playhouse Opens – Today in History: June 17
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The State Cantata – Today in History: June 3
Tavern Signs Mark Changes in Travel, Innkeeping, and Artistic Practice
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Susan P. Schoelwer
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The Minute Man, Westport CT
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Artist Frederic Church Born – Today in History: May 4
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A Connecticut Painter Finds His Voice through Colonial Folk Art
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Eugene O’Neill’s Connecticut Connections
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Carl Sandburg, Poet from the Grassroots, Reaches Connecticut Audiences
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An Artist and Her Books: Amelia Watson, 1856–1934
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The Wearing of the Green: 19th-century Prints of Irish Subjects by Hartford’s Kellogg Brothers
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Holmes at Home: The Life of William Gillette
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Remembering Fredi Washington: Actress, Activist, and Journalist
Ernest Borgnine: Breaking the Hollywood Mold
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Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck
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Ellis Ruley: Art that Celebrated Life
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The Great Remedy: Picturing the Emancipation Proclamation
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The Hartford Convention or Leap no Leap
Leroy Anderson Composed Iconic Music in Woodbury
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The Atheneum Joins War Effort – Who Knew?
Calder in Connecticut: World-Famous Artist Called Roxbury Home
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American Actor Changes 19th-Century Theater – Who Knew?
Broadway Comes to Westport
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Hartford’s Louis Peterson, Groundbreaking African American Playwright
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Hartford’s Anna Sokolow, Modern Dance Pioneer
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A Patriotic Legacy in Print
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Painter, Muralist, Sculptor Sol LeWitt born – Today in History: September 9
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Roger Tory Peterson Dies – Today in History: July 28
Weir Farm the Result of a Trade – Who Knew?
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Colt Park and the Magical Summer of 1976
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The Origins and Enduring Legacy of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre
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Instruction by Mail: The Famous Artists School
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Early Civil Rights and Cultural Pioneers: The Easton Family
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The Hartford Insurance Investigator With the Action-Packed Expense Account
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Colonial Revival Movement Sought Stability during Time of Change
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Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking
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Katharine Hepburn’s Love Affair (with Connecticut)
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A Russian Village Retreat in Southbury
John Rogers was a 19th-Century Sculptor for the Common Man
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News From Lexington: Contemporary Views of the Opening Battles of the American Revolution
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Bridgeport’s Walt Kelly, Creator of Pogo
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Video – Sophie Tucker Tribute Film
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James Abbott McNeil Whistler’s Life in Pomfret
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Rex Brasher Dies – Today in History: February 29
“Negroes Who Stand Up and Fight Back” – Paul Robeson in Hartford
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The Legend of the Charter Oak
Hardcore Connecticut: Documenting the State’s Punk Rock Scene
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Sarah Bernhardt Performs in Hartford – Today in History: June 8
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American Painter John Trumbull Born – Today in History: June 6
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Artist Louis Paul Dessar Dies – Today in History: February 14
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Video – Unsung Heroes: The Music of Jazz in New Haven
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Video – Dotha Bushnell Hillyer Tribute Film
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Video – Florence Griswold Tribute Film
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An Overview of Connecticut’s Outdoor Sculpture
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A Special Place to Honor Military Veterans in Plainville
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Video – Rudolph Zallinger’s Masterpiece, “The Age of Reptiles”
The Decorative Arts of Connecticut
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The Old Brownstone Soldier
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Norfolk—Alive With The Sound of Summer Music
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Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Est. 1842
James G. Batterson, Stone Contractor
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Litchfield Historical Society
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Phelps-Hatheway House and Garden
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Bush-Holley House
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The Answer Is Risom!
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Florence Griswold Museum
Writer
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CPTV
Town(s)
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Old Lyme
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Slater Memorial Museum
Writer
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CPTV
Town(s)
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Norwich
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: New Britian Museum of American Art
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Mattatuck Museum
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Artist Roger Tory Peterson, a Champion for the Natural World
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Preserving an All-American Downtown in Torrington
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The Art of Life and Death in Colonial Bolton
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