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...
Dec 3, 2018
Charles Lyle, executive director of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, whets your appetite for a visit to the Webb, Stevens, and Deane houses to see how the holidays were celebrated in three eras: c. 1770, c. 1830, and c. 1930. Find out how, in the 1800s, Clement C. Moore and Thomas Nast created...
Oct 15, 2018
This episode, the fourth in our 6-part series commemorating the Constitution of 1818, explores one of the main accomplishments of the state’s first constitution: the separation of church and state. Professor Robert Imholt challenges that assertion, though, arguing that the process to disentangle religion from the...