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June 17: The First Black Playwright To “Take a Giant Step” to Broadway
Hartford, Connecticut · Hartford

June 17: The First Black Playwright To “Take a Giant Step” to Broadway

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-17-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   Lyseum Theater Playbill for “Take a Giant Step” (connecticuthistory.org) Award-winning playwright and filmmaker Louis Peterson spent his career creating dramatic stories that explored conflict and relationships especially as they turned around issues of race. He achieved a number of firsts, becoming the first Black playwright to have his work produced on Broad…Read Article
June 16: The Liberty Bell’s Whirlwind Tour of Connecticut
Stamford, Connecticut · Stamford

June 16: The Liberty Bell’s Whirlwind Tour of Connecticut

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-16-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   Today in 1903, just after 6:00 p.m., one of the most iconic symbols of American freedom — the Liberty Bell — arrived in Connecticut. Over the next 24 hours, it would visit five Connecticut cities and towns, giving tens of thousands of Connecticans a chance to see and be seen in its presence, before continuing its whirlwind, whistle-stop tour to Boston and the …Read Article
June 15 Connecticut’s First Television Station
New Haven, Connecticut · New Haven

June 15 Connecticut’s First Television Station

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-15-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   The pre-signon image used by WNCH-TV. Before 24/7 television, television stations were only on the air for a portion of each day. (WTNH-TV) Today in 1948, Connecticut’s first television station WNHC-TV, Channel 6 (now WTNH Channel 8) began broadcasting in New Haven. The introduction of this new media to Connecticut was the brainchild of Aldo DeDomenicis, an It…Read Article

June 13: An Old New England Tradition Goes International

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-13-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   Today in 1914, the people of Manchester turned a time-honored New England tradition on its head. Rather than celebrating Old Home Days – an annual event held in communities across New England to bring emigrated Yankees back for a visit to their “Old Home” town – the city celebrated “Homeland Day,” where Manchester’s foreign-born residents honored their countri…Manchester, Connecticut · ManchesterRead Article

June 12: The “Silver City” Celebrates a Century with Parade after Parade after Parade . . . .

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-12-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   Today in 1906, three parades commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Meriden took place throughout the city. The day’s main parade — comprised of 162 automobiles, which the Hartford Courant described as “of every sort and description” decorated with “flowers in profusion, vines and greens, flags and bunting, plumes and every other variety of tri…Meriden, Connecticut · MeridenRead Article

June 10: The First Union Officer to Die Fighting in the American Civil War

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-10-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   Today in 1861, 32-year-old Major Theodore Woolsey Winthrop, a descendant of one of the most important figures in the founding of Connecticut, died in action at the Battle of Bethel in eastern Virginia, one of the first land battles of the American Civil War. Winthop was the first Union officer to die fighting in that epochal conflict . Born in New Haven in 182…Virginia, United States · VirginiaRead Article

June 9: Saving the Oldest Wooden House in Connecticut

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-9-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   June 9, 1915 marked the start of a new lease on life for the Thomas Lee House in East Lyme, which has the distinction of being the oldest extant wood-framed building in Connecticut. Amid a flurry of pilgrim’s pride and pomp and circumstance, even a former President came to help dedicate the opening of this recently saved and fully restored 17th-century colonial…East Lyme · East LymeRead Article

May 31: Rev. Thomas Hooker Declares “the People” the Foundation of Government

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TICTH-0531-2021-WEB-Thomas-Hookers-Sermon-on-Free-Government.mp3   To many students of Connecticut history and colonial America, Thomas Hooker is considered the “founding father” of Connecticut. A Puritan minister who journeyed from England to Holland to Massachusetts in search of a place where he could preach his message of reformed Christianity free from persecution, Hooker served with di…Hartford, Connecticut · HartfordRead Article

May 29: Connecticut’s First Revolutionary War General — A Daring Leader in Two Wars, and a Peacetime Hero.

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TICTH-0529-2021-WEB-Israel-Putnam-Dies-in-Brooklyn-Age-72.mp3   Today in Connecticut history, Revolutionary War general and French & Indian War veteran Israel Putnam passed away on his farmstead in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Best known for his participation in the Revolutionary War’s crucial Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, Putnam’s reputation for bravery and daring was earned long before hostili…Brooklyn, Connecticut · BrooklynRead Article

May 28: Preparing Connecticut Women to Assume Civic Power

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/May-28-TodayinCTHist-.mp3   On May 21, 1919, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that would give American women the right to vote — legislation that would eventually become the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Even though the legislation still had to be approved by the U.S. Senate and ratified by 3/4 of the states before becoming l…Hartford, Connecticut · HartfordRead Article

May 27: Organizing the Fight Against a Deadly Enemy

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/May-27-TodayinCTHist-.mp3   From the earliest days of Connecticut history, fire posed one of the greatest mortal dangers to Connecticut residents — especially to the English settlers whose homes, barns, fences, and other structures were made of timber and often clustered closely together. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, before the advent of portable water pumps, fire-fighting methods …Wethersfield · WethersfieldRead Article

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