Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut‘s Beaten Path
By Mike Allen
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Noted story teller and former journalist Mike Allen interviews special guests and then produces amazing tales about people, places and events from Connecticut history. His style and enthusiasm make history relatable, interesting, fun and informative. You certainly don‘t have to be from Connecticut to enjoy these stories -- you just need to find history interesting and to love a good story. New episodes are published every Thursday. Theme music (Musical Interlewd 1, intro; Musical Interlewd 2, outro) by Christopher Cech. Podcast logo design by Ashley Cech. Logo photo by Yvonne Cech. This podcast is a production of True North Associates, LLC.
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How Ethan Allen Created a New State
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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A Forgotten Village Abandoned and Hiding in Isolated Woods
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Just 30 Defenders Hold Off 1,300 British During 4-Day Attack
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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The Fatal Paparazzi Car Crash Involving Marilyn Monroe
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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America's First Folk Hero: General Israel Putnam
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The Man Who Created the News Service You Use the Most
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The First 9-1-1 Call Involved a Horrible 1878 Train Wreck in a River
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Connecticut's Worst Storms Hit in Years Ending in the Number 8
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Did Sybil Ludington Really Make her Paul Revere-like Ride?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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NASCAR was Born at this Trend-Setting Racetrack
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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From a 1-Room Schoolhouse to Wall Street Mega-Titan
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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The Oldest Volunteer Fire Department in the Entire Nation
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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What was the Ferocious Creature that Terrorized CT in 1939?
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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When the Famous Blind and Deaf Citizen, Helen Keller, Showed us the Way
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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How Four Deaths During a Mutiny Shook the Justice System 185 Years Ago
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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You Couldn't See the Frightening Enemy - But You Could Certainly Hear Them
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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We Have the Bankrobber's Body, but his Grave Still Reads X-Y-Z
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Arsenic and Old Lace is Based on a True Murder Case
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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The CT Compromise: Without It, We'd Have No Country
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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The Invention of the Flying Automobile
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Can We Settle the Issue over Who Settled First?
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Tweed - CT's Little Airport That Could
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Yankee Peddlers - Connecticut Introduces Door-to-Door Salesmen, in the 1700s
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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How a CT Man Defined and Chiseled Mount Rushmore
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Part 2: When a Secret CT Military Sea Mission Went Very Wrong
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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PART 1: When A Secret CT Military Sea Mission Went Very Wrong
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Riding Motorcycles with Top-Secret Documents Under Gunfire
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The #1 Word Puzzle Creator in the U.S.
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Secrets of the Oldest Town Green
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The Inside Story Behind New England's Stonewalls
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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This CT Harbor Attack is in the Same Record Book as Pearl Harbor
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May 30, 2024 |
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Connecticut's Hanging of Witches in the 1600s
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May 23, 2024 |
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How One Ancient Dirt Path Paved the Future for Western CT
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May 16, 2024 |
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Who Put the Ivory in Ivoryton?
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May 09, 2024 |
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A CT Man's Top-Secret Project: "PO Box 1142"
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May 02, 2024 |
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Who Really Killed Seymour's First Selectman?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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CT Gave Birth to the Very First Robot
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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One of CT's Biggest Disasters - the L'Ambiance Building Collapse
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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CT had its own Alamo - and it had a Gruesome Ending
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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He Murdered for Love - and Hate
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Civil War Draft Dodging, with the Doctor's Help
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Will CT Have Enough Open Space in the Future?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Noah Webster - Our Forgotten Founding Father
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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It's Connecticut's Only Zoo - And What a History it Has
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Did a CT Man Survive the Titanic by Wearing a Dress?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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When Your Small Plane Pilot Dies in Mid-Flight
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Which of CT's 169 Towns Came First?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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20,000 Leagues Under Long Island Sound: PART TWO
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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PART 1: 20,000 Leagues Under Long Island Sound
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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This CT Ghost Story has Plenty of Credible Witnesses
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The U.N. was Supposed to be in Greenwich
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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A Founding Father’s Son Jailed in CT
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Mystery Behind the Eerie Moodus Noises
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The Strongest Man in the World
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Could You Move a 5,000-Man, Foreign-Speaking Army Across Colonial CT?
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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CT’s History Starts with The Mayflower
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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She May Have Been CT’s Most Famous Resident
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The Most Important Man in CT History
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The Best Story Ever Told in Connecticut
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Digging for Evidence at Gallows Hill
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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As Slavery Ended in CT, Ugliness at the State’s First All-Black School
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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When CT Residents Were Sent to the Poor House
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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World War II Could Not Have Been Won Without Connecticut
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Day 2 Rolling Skulls Revealed a CT Vampire Grave
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Life-Saving Miracle at Yale New Haven Hospital
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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CT Won the Cigar War by Actually Creating a Weather Climate
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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An Extremely Unique Gated CT Community
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Famous Russians Who Fled Their Revolution for Southbury
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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The ABCs of EVs in CT 130 YearsAgo
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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CT’s Own ”Field of Dreams” Baseball Story
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The Longest Running Newspaper in the Whole U.S.
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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George Washington Slept Here - Or Did He?
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Founding Antarctica at Age 21, with no Map, in a 47-foot Boat
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Benedict Arnold - CT’s Misunderstood Traitor
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The First Nuclear Submarine - The USS Nautilus
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Rochambeau’s Direct Descendant Remenisces About His Famous Ancestor
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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CT Put the ”Law” in Lawyers
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Where are Western CT’s Native Americans Now?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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CT’s Game-Changing Contribution to Telephone Communications
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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One Town - Two Very Different American Flags
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Greatest Rock Concert That Wasn’t
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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169 Noteworthy Signs
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Escaping Execution by Hiding in Judge’s Cave
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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What Remains of CT’s Earliest Turnpikes
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May 25, 2023 |
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Hidden Revolutionary War Treasure
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Mystique of the Old Connecticut Path
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May 11, 2023 |
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The Ice Man Cometh in Connecticut
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May 04, 2023 |
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Putting the Spotlight on CT’s Lighthouses
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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On a CT Whale Hunt, They Found the President’s Desk
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Timing is Everything: CT as Clock-Making King
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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UFOs Over Connecticut
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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200 Years of Fatal Train Accidents in Connecticut
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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When Hungarian Soldiers Came to Rural Connecticut for the Winter
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Making of Candlewood Lake - CT’s Disneyland
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Thanks CT for Cleaning Up U.S. Rivers
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Connecticut Radio Turns 100
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Bell Town USA is in CT
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Whaling in CT
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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When Cleveland Used to Belong to Connecticut
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Driving the Oldest Ferry Boat in the U.S.
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Why Nathan Hale is Connecticut’s State Hero
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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How Connecticut Thumbed its Nose at Prohibition
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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When the Devil was Accused of Murder in Connecticut
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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NEW - Connecticut Trivia Tidbits
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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The Daunting Challenges of Attending Those Quaint One-Room Schoolhouses
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Connecticut’s Valley Forge - The Harsh Winter of 1778 at Redding’s Putnam Park
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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How Connecticut Horsemen Helped Win the Revolutionary War
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The Woman Who Smashed the Glass Ceiling for Female Governors: Connecticut’s Ella Grasso
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Hiding in Plain Sight - Connecticut’s Stone Mile Markers
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Connecticut’s Fairytale Land: The Last Green Valley
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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A British Revolutionary War Raid that Bears Remembering
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Connecticut’s Cold War Secrets
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Aerospace is Connecticut’s Middle Name
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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When Stagecoaches Were How You Got Around
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Day 4 Trains Collided in 10 Minutes
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Identifying Four Unearthed 250-year-old Skeletons, Buried in a Mass Grave
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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When Dinosaurs Roamed Connecticut
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The First State Prison Ever in the U.S. was in CT - and it was Like a Dungeon
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Is a Pickle That Doesn’t Bounce Illegal in Connecticut?
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Benedict Arnold and the Revolutionary War Battle of Ridgefield
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes and his Gillette Castle
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Curses, Buried Treasure, Ghosts - Milford’s Charles Island Has it All
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Connecticut’s Civil War Battle of Charcoal Run: Danbury versus New Fairfield
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Connecticut’s Worst Natural Disaster - The Floods of 1955
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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When Indian Culture and Christianity Met Each Other in Connecticut
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Connecticut Features Many Gems - Literally!
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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When Grave Robbing Became Illegal in Connecticut
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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The First Mass Murder in the U.S. (in the 1700s) was in western Connecticut
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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The Hubble Telescope: Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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In the Presence of Greatness: Danbury’s Marian Anderson
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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The Odd Notch Along Connecticut’s Northern Border
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Connecticut’s Only Pro Football Team
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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How an American Industry Grew but Then Left Big Problems
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Did JFK Single-Handedly Kill the Hatting Industry?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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The Day the Clowns Cried at the Worst Circus Fire in U.S. History
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Charles Ives - So Much More than ”Just” a Musical Giant
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May 19, 2022 |
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Part 2: The Greatest Showman on Earth - PT Barnum
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May 12, 2022 |
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Part 1: The Greatest Showman on Earth - PT Barnum
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May 05, 2022 |
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Part 2: Redding’s Favorite Son - Mark Twain
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Part 1: Redding’s Favorite Son - Mark Twain
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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The Deadliest Fire in Federal Prison History: 7-7-77
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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PART 2: There Was Never Anything Quite Like the Great Danbury State Fair
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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PART 1: There’s Never Been Anything Quite Like The Great Danbury State Fair
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The Catastrophic Night When Not One, But Two Dams Gave Way
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The Show Must Go On - Even Outdoors
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Keeping The Grange Alive in the 21st Century
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The World is His Oyster
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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She Put the Alice in Alice’s Restaurant
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Hippies, Zealots or Entrepreneurs - Connecticut’s Odd Sandemanian Religion
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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The Gruesome Connecticut Woodchipper Murder Case
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Part 2: A Trail Like No Other - It Brought Us Freedom
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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A Trail Like No Other - It Brought Us Freedom
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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The Mad Hatters and Their Major US Supreme Court Case
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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What Would Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk Think About COVID?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Incredible Trail of the Whispering Giants
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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The Canal that Split Connecticut in Half - Physically and Politically
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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The Weekend the British Burned Danbury - Part 2
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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The Weekend the British Burned Danbury - Part 1
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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The Magical Life of Flying in Connecticut
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Soap Box Derby Racing in Connecticut
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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How Danbury Helped Separate Church and State
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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How to Build a New England Town Center
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Kickbacks Paved the Merritt Parkway
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Did a Connecticut Woman Murder Jack the Ripper?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Connecticut‘s Nuclear Missiles (Part 2)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Connecticut‘s Nuclear Missiles (Part 1)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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An Enchanting Connecticut Legend -- The Leatherman
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Ode to the Housatonic Railroad
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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The Man Who Taught PT Barnum About the Circus
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Stagecoaches, trollies and steam locomotives in Connecticut
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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The Unbelievable Pardue Brothers Crime Spree
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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The Appalachian Trail - a Connecticut Vision
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Building Connecticut -- one earthen road at a time
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Fighting Hitler in Southbury
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Mark Twain‘s Final Years in Redding
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Sep 05, 2021 |