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Whatever Happened to Nick Bellantoni?
Episode 130
Recently, Connecticut State Historian Walt Woodward announced he will be retiring next July 1st. To find out what "historical" retirement is like, …
4 years, 6 months ago
Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
Season 2 Episode 129
What more do we need to know about Sam Colt? In Hartford we have the iconic blue-domed Colt Armory, Colt Park, the Colt addition to the Wadsworth At…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Connecticut Historian Makes History: Recovering Phyllis Wheatley's Lost Years
A Connecticut Historian Makes History: Recovering Phyllis Wheatley's Lost Years
UCONN legal historian Cornelia Hughes Dayton was searching throug…
4 years, 7 months ago
Telling Your Family Story with Jill Marie Snyder and Orice Jenkins
Season 2 Episode 127
Are you your family's historian? The one that listens to all the elders' stories or digs into that big box of old family photographs? Ever wonder ho…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Three Lives of Kevin Johnson
Episode 126
History has often been described as the present having a conversation with the past. Meet Kevin Johnson, who makes those conversations both real and…
4 years, 8 months ago
Precious Memories Captured in Hair
Season 2 Episode 125
In this episode, join Mary Donohue, Asst. Publisher of Connecticut Explored, for a discussion with Dr. Helen Sheumaker about Victorian jewelry and w…
4 years, 8 months ago
Lydia Sigourney, Benedict Arnold & the Battle of Bunker Hill
What do the nineteenth century author Lydia Sigourney, the 18th century hero-turned-traitor Benedict Arnold, and the Revolutionary War battle of Bun…
4 years, 8 months ago
Connecticut Seen: The Photography of Pablo Delano and Jack Delano
Season 2 Episode 123
In this episode, join Mary Donohue, Asst. Publisher of Connecticut Explored, for a discussion with Pablo Delano, visual artist, photographer and pro…
4 years, 9 months ago
The New Connecticut Yankee
Season 2 Episode 122
In this special summer episode we visit Frank and Lisa Catalano, who in their 18th-century home garden in Lebanon, are using some very inventive appr…
4 years, 10 months ago
Rooted in History: Connecticut's Trees
Season 2 Episode 121
In this episode, Dr. Leah Glaser and students from her 2021 Public History class at Central Connecticut State University present stories about the s…
4 years, 10 months ago