May 1, 2019
This episode celebrates the 100th anniversary of the most influential design school of the twentieth century, the Bauhaus, and Connecticut’s connection to it. Connecticut Explored’s Assistant Publisher Mary Donohue and conceptual artist, photographer and frequent Connecticut Explored contributor Bob Gregson...
Mar 29, 2019
In this podcast cross-over episode, Johnna Kaplan, author of Connecticut Explored's spring 2019 story about Fort Trumbull in New London, Connecticut is joined by her Going/Steadypodcast co-host Kerri Provost. Listen as they dive into the history of Fort Trumbull, a Connecticut state park that’s seen a devastating...
Feb 27, 2019
The story behind this episode started with the high-profile heist in 1991 of a stained-glass window from the nineteenth century mausoleum of a New London industrialist. The window was designed by world-famous artist Louis Comfort Tiffany. But the thieves hadn’t counted on a persistent detective. Tiffany, best known...
Feb 1, 2019
After World War II, one Connecticut community made a conscious effort to reject racial segregation. The founders of Village Creek in Norwalk created a cooperative neighborhood which promised not to discriminate based on "race, color, creed or politics."
Over the next decades, the Villagers faced criticism from...
Jan 13, 2019
State Historian Walt Woodward asked five
of Connecticut's leading voices for the history community,
what their favorite winter history
reads are this year. Briann Greenfield of the Harriet Beecher Stowe
Center, State Librarian Ken Wiggin, Sally Whipple of the Old State
House, Jason Mancini of CTHumanities, and...