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Common Struggle, Individual Experience: How Can Museums Talk About Mental Health? (CTE Game Changer Series)
Season 2 Episode 150
Connecticut Explored is celebrating its 20th anniversary with "20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History," a series of articles, podcasts, and pu…
3 years, 8 months ago
New London and the Middle Passage (CTE Game Changer Series)
Season 2 Episode 149
Connecticut Explored is celebrating its 20th anniversary with "20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History," a series of articles, podcasts, and pu…
3 years, 8 months ago
148. Rediscovering the Battle of Ridgefield
The discovery of four 18th century male skeletons thought to be possible soldiers in the April 27, 1777 Battle of Ridgefield, prompted the most in-d…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Hindenburg Flies Over Connecticut
Season 2 Episode 147
The airship Hindenburg passed over Connecticut 21 times during its 17-month service between 1936-37. In the 1930s, air travel across the Atlantic O…
3 years, 9 months ago
Votes (and Markers) for Women!
Season 2 Episode 146
For this episode of Grating the Nutmeg, Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Historical Society talked to Joanie DiMartino, Connecticut state Coordin…
3 years, 10 months ago
Activists Paul and Eslanda Robeson in Connecticut
Season 2 Episode 145
In the Summer 2022 issue of Connecticut Explored, author and historian Steve Thornton of the Shoeleather History Project brings us the story of the…
3 years, 10 months ago
144. A Visit to the Katharine Hepburn Museum at "The Kate" in Old Saybrook
Season 2 Episode 144
Painting by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Join Walt Woodward on a visit to the Katharine Hepburn Museum at "the …
3 years, 11 months ago
The Need for Speed on the Connecticut River
Season 2 Episode 143
In this episode, CTExplored publisher Elizabeth Normen talks with Connecticut River Museum curator Amy Trout about the museum's summer exhibition Sp…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Institute of Living at 200
Season 2 Episode 142
In 1822, the Hartford Retreat for the Insane was chartered as one of the first mental health centers in the United States, and the first hospital of …
3 years, 11 months ago
Saving the Merritt Parkway
Season 2 Episode 141
Most people in the tri-state area have driven the Merritt Parkway with its extraordinary bridges and landscaped vistas. But can a roadway built in t…
4 years ago