Connecticut Explored

05/30/2026

Our organizational partner, Slater Memorial Museum, opens its Summer Lecture Series on Tues, June 2 at 6pm!

Dr. Nancy Steenburg has been on the Venture trail for 20 years, searching for the documentation of Venture’s extraordinary life, and digging deeper into the impact of enslavement in colonial Connecticut.

05/25/2026

This Wednesday with our publisher, Dr. Kathy Hermes!

05/24/2026

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We're celebrating our 25th year in print in 2027 and are taking proposals:

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05/21/2026

Come with us as we explore the new exhibition, "A Journey of Hope: The Irish American Immigrant Experience", curated by Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield now on exhibit at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, in this recent episode of Grating the Nutmeg Podcast!

Our guest is John Foley, president of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield.

Listen: ctexplored.org/irishimminart/

05/20/2026

As we reach the Semiquincentennial - the 250th anniversary of the United States - dive into Connecticut's amazing impact with our special expanded Summer issue!

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05/20/2026

More great summer reading!

See more: amazon.com/Portraits-Patriots-Trumbull-Connecticut-Revolution/dp/B0FD86DMR4

05/19/2026

Was a 24-hour sports television cable network considered a wild and impossible idea? This is their FIRST show on Sept. 7, 1979!
In this recent Grating the Nutmeg Podcast, we chat with the authors of the new audiobook SPORTS HEAVEN: The Birth of ESPN, published by Hachette Audio, about ESPN’s origins and how their home base ended up in !

Listen: ctexplored.org/espnpod/

05/17/2026

The fascinating and important new book from our friend John Mills / Alex Breanne Corporation!

See more: amazon.com/Narrative-Primus-Lineage-American-History/dp/B0GJ2LP7TH

05/15/2026

In 1955, a group of disabled young adults living at New Britain Memorial Hospital signed a letter declaring their intention to seek out "adventuresome living for the physically handicapped." They formed a nonprofit called New Horizons and set out on a thirty-year journey to raise money and navigate legal barriers in order to realize their most cherished dream: a housing complex for the disabled, run by the disabled. In 2026, New Horizons Village in Farmington turns 40. Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History gives you a capsule history of the New Horizons movement and speaks with current residents and staff about what New Horizons means to them.

New Grating the Nutmeg Podcast! Listen: ctexplored.org/nhrvpod/