A recent CDC study suggests COVID-19 arrived in Connecticut at least as early as Jan. 10, almost two full months before the first known coronavirus case was diagnosed in a patient in Danbury in early March last year.
This & That
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
It will begin with a feeling of depression and weariness. You will try to shake it off, pretend that it is nothing, but soon the symptoms will really start.
Taking a look back at our archives and notable events from this month in state history.
Stories of a spectral hound haunting the Hanging Hills of central Connecticut have endured for more than 100 years.
The veteran reporter announced his retirement in November 2020, citing concerns over the pandemic, but hasn't ruled out an eventual return.
She hopes to inspire others and raise awareness about our impact on the planet.
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
2021 is Connecticut Magazine’s 50th anniversary year, so throughout we will be taking a look back through our archives from each month and remembering some of the moments that have helped shaped our state.
A few years ago, I witnessed a mass killing from my porch overlooking the Five Mile River in Rowayton. I didn’t report it. But when I heard that it happened again this year, I decided to reveal, in detail, what I saw and learned on that fateful day in November:
Patricia Kelly sits at a picnic table and gazes over an expanse of barns and pastures of grazing horses, a “campus” she has built over the past 36 years for the riding group Ebony Horsewomen Inc.
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
In 1895 Louis Lassen opened the steak sandwich food cart that would later become Louis’ Lunch restaurant. At the time, trolley tracks cut through the city streets and their wires webbed the air. Weaving between them were steam-powered cars and horse-drawn carriages. At the turn of the centur…
"My thought process is childlike. It’s good to be childlike. I think that’s a precious quality.”
These dealers in the rare and curious cater to book lovers with special tastes.
Firearms are her “passion,” a passion so great that she started a YouTube channel about three years ago to share her love and knowledge of them.
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
Judge Nathan Wheeler was in the midst of his early-morning stroll when he saw the light.
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
Skype a Scientist brings scientists from around the world into classrooms near and far through video chat technology.
Nils Nilson was a hero. Even afterward no one disputed that.
When Dr. David Greenfield began sounding the alarm about the danger of technology addiction in the mid-’90s, he was so far ahead of his time that few people took him seriously. “People thought I was crazy,” he says while sitting in his West Hartford office at the Center for Internet and Tech…
An excerpt from the new book Who Will Have My Back: Stories of Love and Care for Those Who Have Served and Sacrificed.
More than 140 years ago, the murder of a young woman in Madison and the resulting trial of a Methodist minister for the crime gripped much of the nation. And then in 1978, the 100th anniversary of the murder, the case hooked Joel Helander, Guilford’s town historian.
The CT-based company offers six games that are simple and easy to learn, but with lots of variations for gameplay.
Legend says that the firearms heiress built her labyrinth home to confuse angry spirits.
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
When most people think of a flush at Mohegan Sun, it centers on drawing a hand of the same colored cards at the poker table. But when you’re trying to make your hotel and casino as safe as possible in a pandemic for the 9 million visitors Mohegan Sun draws each year, attention must be paid t…
When Ruth Campbell Bigelow was mixing up a blend of black tea, orange rind and sweet spices in her Manhattan kitchen in 1945, she just wanted to make a better cup of tea. She scarcely could have imagined the heights her family’s company would reach 75 years later. Today, Fairfield-based Bige…
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
On a boat trip looking for seabirds off southern New Zealand, Gina Nichol kept a close eye on the boat’s captain as the seas got rough and the weather deteriorated. She was leading a tour of nature lovers from around the world, and she knew from experience that if the captain looked confiden…
How does Ramblin’ Dan Stevens manage to keep on ramblin’ during a pandemic laced with restrictions on everybody’s movements? And how does a musician make a living when so many shows keep getting canceled?
It is fortunate for vaccine science that John Franklin Enders settled on the field. He would develop the measles vaccine, and ultimately be remembered as the “Father of Modern Vaccines.”
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
Walter Woodward wants to remind us about key people and events in our state’s past — the good and the bad.
UPDATE 9/22/20: Since this story was published, there have been some changes. Due to family obligations, Chef Mazie moved out of Connecticut. Instead of Stella's and Mazie's, the restaurant is now Stella’s African Eatery. For now the hours remain the same, although Chef Stella is looking int…
Taking on a political bully isn’t easy, especially when much of America still embraces him. But in the 1950s, four U.S. senators from Connecticut — Democrats William Benton and Brien McMahon and Republicans Prescott Bush and Raymond Baldwin — did just that with this nation’s archetypal demag…
Douglas Harris died under mysterious circumstances in 1948. Eleven years later so did his father-in-law.
Bantam Cinema opened in 1927 as the Rivoli Theater in Litchfield. It survived the end of silent film and the rise of the talkies; the onset of television and the birth and then death of video rental stores; and endured, perhaps with a few bruises, the streaming era and challenges of a film i…
About a year and a half ago, Dean Pagani decided to chuck it all.
At first no one believed the mom from Lyme.
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
When the Pleasant Valley Drive-In of Barkhamsted opened for the season on the second Friday in May, owner Donna McGrane was worried because it was pouring rain. “But we were packed!” she says. On the following night, “There was a crazy blinding blizzard. We sold out!”
It has attacked humans throughout recorded history and been called “the white plague” and “Captain of all these men of death.”
Jeanine Basinger begins her book The Movie Musical! by recalling being a child in the small town of Brookings, South Dakota, during World War II and beholding Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on the big screen of the downtown movie theater. The movie was Swing Time. In those days, she writes, …
Businesses have come up with new ways to market their products online and connect with customers that will likely survive well beyond the current pandemic.
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
As an animal-care specialist at the Beardsley Zoo, Bethany Thatcher takes care of the Bridgeport facility's two Amur tigers, Reka and Zeya, sisters born in 2017, as well as its Amur leopards. Unlike the roadside zoos depicted in Netflix’s hit documentary series Tiger King, the Beardsley Zoo …
Catching up on recent news, people and trends around Connecticut.
They will be back with us soon, by late May or June, those monarch butterflies, a sight more beautiful and welcome this year than ever before.
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UPDATE 9/22/20: Since this story was published, there have been some changes. Due to family obligations, Chef Mazie moved out of Connecticut. Instead of Stella's and Mazie's, the restaurant is now Stella’s African Eatery. For now the hours remain the same, although Chef Stella is looking int…
