Amazing Tales from Off the Beaten Path

The Mystery Behind the Design of NY City's Street Grid

The Sheer Exhilaration of Ski Jumping

Who Padlocked the Governor's Door, Barring Him from His Own Office?

The Slaying of one of the Biggest Robber Barons, Diamond Jim Fisk

His Trove of Letters Document Bloody Civil War Battles, Prisons, and Conditions

He was the Last Person Executed in CT - She Knew Him Best, 'Til the Day He Died

The Tiny Worm Behind an Enormous Industry

John Hancock: The Giant Signature that Fanned the Flames of Revolution

This Hero Stayed on a Sinking Sub to Save a Man

What's Hiding Behind That White Cross on the Hill?

Tracking Down the First Christmas Tree

The Illegal Pirate Radio Station at the Largest Rock Concert, Watkins Glen

You Used to Have to Pay to Use a Library

A Religious Group Pinpoints the End of the World

TV Cameraman Inside Ground Zero

An Ancient Hiking Rite Still Practiced

Boxer / Opera Singer / Queen of the Rum Runners

PT Barnum's Incredible Legacy

Skydiving's First Jump

Island of Miracles

How Ethan Allen Created a New State

A Forgotten Village Abandoned and Hiding in Isolated Woods

Just 30 Defenders Hold Off 1,300 British During 4-Day Attack

The Fatal Paparazzi Car Crash Involving Marilyn Monroe

America's First Folk Hero: General Israel Putnam

A CT Man Created the News Service You Use the Most

The First 9-1-1 Call Involved a Horrible 1878 Train Wreck in a CT River

Connecticut's Worst Storms Hit in Years Ending in the Number 8

Did Sybil Ludington Really Make her Paul Revere-like Ride?

NASCAR was Born at a Trend-Setting CT Racetrack

From a 1-Room Schoolhouse to Wall Street Mega-Titan

The Oldest Volunteer Fire Department in the Entire Nation is in CT

What was the Ferocious Creature that Terrorized CT in 1939?

When CT's Famous Blind and Deaf Resident, Helen Keller, Showed us the Way

How Four Deaths During a Mutiny Shook the Justice System 185 Years Ago

You Couldn't See the Frightening Enemy - But You Could Certainly Hear Them

We Have the Bankrobber's Body, but his Grave Still Reads X-Y-Z

Arsenic and Old Lace is Based on a True Murder Case

The CT Compromise: Without It, We'd Have No Country

The Invention of the Flying Automobile

Can We Settle the Issue over Who Settled First?

Tweed - CT's Little Airport That Could

Yankee Peddlers - Connecticut Introduces Door-to-Door Salesmen, in the 1700s

How a CT Man Defined and Chiseled Mount Rushmore

Part 2: When a Secret CT Military Sea Mission Went Very Wrong

PART 1: When A Secret CT Military Sea Mission Went Very Wrong

Riding Motorcycles with Top-Secret Documents Under Gunfire

The #1 Word Puzzle Creator in the U.S.

Secrets of the Oldest Town Green

The Inside Story Behind New England's Stonewalls

This CT Harbor Attack is in the Same Record Book as Pearl Harbor

Connecticut's Hanging of Witches in the 1600s

How One Ancient Dirt Path Paved the Future for Western CT

Who Put the Ivory in Ivoryton?

A Top-Secret World War II Project: "PO Box 1142"

Who Really Killed Seymour's First Selectman?

CT Gave Birth to the Very First Robot

One of CT's Biggest Disasters - the L'Ambiance Building Collapse

CT had its own Alamo - and it had a Gruesome Ending

He Murdered for Love - and Hate

Civil War Draft Dodging, with the Doctor's Help

Will CT Have Enough Open Space in the Future?

Noah Webster - Our Forgotten Founding Father

It's Connecticut's Only Zoo - And What a History it Has

Did a CT Man Survive the Titanic by Wearing a Dress?

When Your Small Plane Pilot Dies in Mid-Flight

Which of CT's 169 Towns Came First?

20,000 Leagues Under Long Island Sound: PART TWO

PART 1: 20,000 Leagues Under Long Island Sound

This CT Ghost Story has Plenty of Credible Witnesses

The U.N. was Supposed to be in Greenwich

A Founding Father’s Son Jailed in CT

The Mystery Behind the Eerie Moodus Noises

The Strongest Man in the World

Could You Move a 5,000-Man, Foreign-Speaking Army Across Colonial CT?

CT’s History Starts with The Mayflower

She May Have Been CT’s Most Famous Resident

The Most Important Man in CT History

The Best Story Ever Told in Connecticut

Digging for Evidence at Gallows Hill

As Slavery Ended in CT, Ugliness at the State’s First All-Black School

When CT Residents Were Sent to the Poor House

World War II Could Not Have Been Won Without Connecticut

The Day 2 Rolling Skulls Revealed a CT Vampire Grave

The Life-Saving Miracle at Yale New Haven Hospital

CT Won the Cigar War by Actually Creating a Weather Climate

An Extremely Unique Gated CT Community

The Famous Russians Who Fled Their Revolution for Southbury

The ABCs of EVs in CT 130 YearsAgo

CT’s Own ”Field of Dreams” Baseball Story

The Longest Running Newspaper in the Whole U.S.

George Washington Slept Here - Or Did He?

Founding Antarctica at Age 21, with no Map, in a 47-foot Boat

Benedict Arnold - CT’s Misunderstood Traitor

The First Nuclear Submarine - The USS Nautilus

Rochambeau’s Direct Descendant Remenisces About His Famous Ancestor

CT Put the ”Law” in Lawyers

Where are Western CT’s Native Americans Now?

CT’s Game-Changing Contribution to Telephone Communications

One Town - Two Very Different American Flags

The Greatest Rock Concert That Wasn’t

169 Noteworthy Signs

Escaping Execution by Hiding in Judge’s Cave

What Remains of CT’s Earliest Turnpikes

Hidden Revolutionary War Treasure

The Mystique of the Old Connecticut Path

The Ice Man Cometh in Connecticut

Putting the Spotlight on CT’s Lighthouses

On a CT Whale Hunt, They Found the President’s Desk

Timing is Everything: CT as Clock-Making King

UFOs Over Connecticut

200 Years of Fatal Train Accidents in Connecticut

When Hungarian Soldiers Came to Rural Connecticut for the Winter

The Making of Candlewood Lake - CT’s Disneyland

Thanks CT for Cleaning Up U.S. Rivers

Connecticut Radio Turns 100

Bell Town USA is in CT

Whaling in CT

When Cleveland Used to Belong to Connecticut

Driving the Oldest Ferry Boat in the U.S.

Why Nathan Hale is Connecticut’s State Hero

How Connecticut Thumbed its Nose at Prohibition

When the Devil was Accused of Murder in Connecticut

NEW - Connecticut Trivia Tidbits

The Daunting Challenges of Attending Those Quaint One-Room Schoolhouses

Connecticut’s Valley Forge - The Harsh Winter of 1778 at Redding’s Putnam Park

How Connecticut Horsemen Helped Win the Revolutionary War

The Woman Who Smashed the Glass Ceiling for Female Governors: Connecticut’s Ella Grasso

Hiding in Plain Sight - Connecticut’s Stone Mile Markers

Connecticut’s Fairytale Land: The Last Green Valley

A British Revolutionary War Raid that Bears Remembering

Connecticut’s Cold War Secrets

Aerospace is Connecticut’s Middle Name

When Stagecoaches Were How You Got Around

The Day 4 Trains Collided in 10 Minutes

Identifying Four Unearthed 250-year-old Skeletons, Buried in a Mass Grave

When Dinosaurs Roamed Connecticut

The First State Prison Ever in the U.S. was in CT - and it was Like a Dungeon

Is a Pickle That Doesn’t Bounce Illegal in Connecticut?

Benedict Arnold and the Revolutionary War Battle of Ridgefield

The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes and his Gillette Castle

Curses, Buried Treasure, Ghosts - Milford’s Charles Island Has it All

Connecticut’s Civil War Battle of Charcoal Run: Danbury versus New Fairfield

Connecticut’s Worst Natural Disaster - The Floods of 1955

When Indian Culture and Christianity Met Each Other in Connecticut

Connecticut Features Many Gems - Literally!

When Grave Robbing Became Illegal in Connecticut

The First Mass Murder in the U.S.

The Hubble Telescope: Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe

In the Presence of Greatness: Danbury’s Marian Anderson

The Odd Notch Along Connecticut’s Northern Border

Connecticut’s Only Pro Football Team

How an American Industry Grew but Then Left Big Problems

Did JFK Single-Handedly Kill the Hatting Industry?

The Day the Clowns Cried at the Worst Circus Fire in U.S. History

Charles Ives - So Much More than ”Just” a Musical Giant

Part 2: The Greatest Showman on Earth - PT Barnum

Part 1: The Greatest Showman on Earth - PT Barnum

Part 2: Redding’s Favorite Son - Mark Twain

Part 1: Redding’s Favorite Son - Mark Twain

The Deadliest Fire in Federal Prison History: 7-7-77

PART 2: There Was Never Anything Quite Like the Great Danbury State Fair

PART 1: There’s Never Been Anything Quite Like The Great Danbury State Fair

The Catastrophic Night When Not One, But Two Dams Gave Way

The Show Must Go On - Even Outdoors

Keeping The Grange Alive in the 21st Century

The World is His Oyster

She Put the Alice in Alice’s Restaurant

Hippies, Zealots or Entrepreneurs - Connecticut’s Odd Sandemanian Religion

The Gruesome Connecticut Woodchipper Murder Case

Part 2: A Trail Like No Other - It Brought Us Freedom

A Trail Like No Other - It Brought Us Freedom

The Mad Hatters and Their Major US Supreme Court Case

What Would Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk Think About COVID?

The Incredible Trail of the Whispering Giants

The Erie Canal's Eastern Cousin

The Weekend the British Burned Danbury - Part 2

The Weekend the British Burned Danbury - Part 1

The Magical Life of Flying in Connecticut

Soap Box Derby Racing in Connecticut

How Danbury Helped Separate Church and State

How to Build a New England Town Center

Kickbacks Paved the Merritt Parkway

Did a Connecticut Woman Murder Jack the Ripper?

Connecticut‘s Nuclear Missiles (Part 2)

Connecticut‘s Nuclear Missiles (Part 1)

An Enchanting Connecticut Legend -- The Leatherman

Ode to the Housatonic Railroad

The Man Who Taught PT Barnum About the Circus

Stagecoaches, trollies and steam locomotives in Connecticut

The Unbelievable Pardue Brothers Crime Spree

The Appalachian Trail - a Connecticut Vision

Building Connecticut -- one earthen road at a time

Fighting Hitler in Southbury

Mark Twain‘s Final Years in Redding