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The Orrin Freeman House and the
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Linonian and Brothers in Unity: The Societies that Built Yale University’s Library
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Early Connecticut Gas Light Companies
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Connecticut College for Women: The State’s First All-Female Institution of Higher Learning
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Illuminating Connecticut’s Past: The Bradley & Hubbard Legacy
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New London’s Tradition of Burning Benedict Arnold…in Effigy – Who Knew?
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Electric Boat: From Innovation Trials to WWII Submarine Leadership
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Black Loyalist Refugees: Toney Escapes During the Burning of Fairfield
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A Fair to Remember in Brooklyn
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Miss Porter’s School in Farmington
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Connecticut History Day 2024: Turning Points in History
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Derby’s Osbornedale Farms, Frances Kellogg, and the Dairy Industry
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“Girl Pilot”: Mary Goodrich Jenson Breaks Barriers in Aviation and Journalism
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Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White: “No Picture Was Unimportant to Her”
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Jacques and Therese Makowsky and the Development of the Cornish Game Hen
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Oniontown: How Hard Work, Tall Tales, and Red Onions Built Wethersfield
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Cornfield Point: Old Saybrook’s Forgotten Scenic Alcove
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Jewish Farming Communities in Connecticut in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Disaster on the Sound: The Collision of the Steamboats
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Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield’s World-Famous Bonnet Maker
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Alan L. Hart: Pioneer in Medicine and Transgender History
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Derby Day on the Housatonic
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Connecticut’s First Roman Catholic Church
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Connecticut and the Armenian Genocide
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Lillian Hoban: Beloved Illustrator of “I Can Read” Books
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James Merrill: Connecticut’s First Poet Laureate
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Banner Lodge: A Vacation Playground for an Excluded Population
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The 29th First to Enter Confederate Capital When It Surrenders – Today in History: April 3
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Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children
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Polish Tobacco Farmers in the Connecticut River Valley
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Connecticut’s First Female Telephone Operator – Today in History: March 24
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George Laurence Nelson: Artist of Kent’s Seven Hearths
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