Kathy Hermes
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Publisher, Connecticut Explored magazine, and Grating the Nutmeg, podcast, all about Connecticut history. Emerita, CCSU. AB, UCI 85; JD, Duke 92; PhD, Yale 95.
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Our state’s history is fascinating! Ask the more than 2000 listeners who download episodes each month! Let’s keep GTN free. Check out our online auction and help us raise $7500 to keep the podcast accessible to all.
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We love telling the stories of Connecticut’s past on GTN! We need your support - bid on some items in our annual online auction!

Bids are now live on these two pieces of stunning handmade pottery by Gary Red Oak O'Neil.

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Support Grating the Nutmeg in our 2nd annual auction, a fundraiser for our award-winning CT history podcast. Win 4 passes to Mark Twain House & Museum, autographed copy of Ron Chernow’s Twain bio, a book on ghosts of the home + copy of the Hog River Journal.

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Wesleyan University is hosting the symposium, free & open to the public. The event includes new research presented by: Paul Grant-Costa, Sarah Sportman, Alice King, Thomas Wickman, Vicki Welch, Lucianne Lavin, Jim Sarbaugh, Katherine Hermes, and Alexandra Maravel.
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Support Grating the Nutmeg in our 2nd annual auction, a fundraiser for our award-winning CT history podcast. Win 4 passes to Mark Twain House & Museum, autographed copy of Ron Chernow’s Twain bio, a book on ghosts of the home + copy of the Hog River Journal.

Bid now: secure.qgiv.com/event/connec...
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Our 2nd annual GTN online auction is LIVE! The Shore Line Trolley Museum Package = 4 guest passes, the book "Paved Roads & Public Money: CT Transportation in the Age of Internal Combustion"+ our fall 2025 issue of CTExplored!

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The Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS), a museum and research center located in Washington, CT, seeks an Executive Director to lead the organization. Founded in 1975 as the American Indian Archaeological Institute. networks.h-net.org/jobs/69099/i...
Institute for American Indian Studies - Executive Director | H-Net
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The Present from the Start Conference at Eastern Connecticut State University yesterday was fantastic. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Catherine Johnson Adams, set the tone with her talk and we kept soaring!
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“…hosted by Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities/co-sponsored by the Middlesex County Historical Society, w/support: Wintman Family Endowed Lecture Series; Deans of the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences; American Studies; Anthropology; Indigenous Studies Research Network.”
Emerging from Erasure: Indigenous and Settler Colonial Histories of the Wangunk People — a Symposium
Join us for a multi-day history symposium focusing on the Wangunk, the Indigenous people of central Connecticut. We begin on Friday with the openin...
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The Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS), a museum and research center located in Washington, Connecticut, seeks an Executive Director to lead the organization, providing vision to accomplish the mission and strategic goals of the organization.

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PRESENT FROM THE START: PEOPLE OF COLOR IN CONNECTICUT’S REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1763-1836

Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham St, Willimantic, CT
Sept. 20, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The conference is open to the public. The draft program is available at www.ctexplored.org/program-pres...
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In our latest #GTN, we dive into the life of artist and author Maurice Sendak, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, who lived in #Ridgefield with his partner Dr. Eugene Glynn for over 50 years. Listen: www.ctexplored.org/sendakpod/
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Celebrate #LaborDay with a brand new #GTN!
Immigrants from Lithuania who made their way to New Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century found work in the city’s factories, but major upheavals in American society were happening at the time…
Listen: www.ctexplored.org/brewingcommunitypod/
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On Sept. 6, 2025, Connecticut Explored's publisher Kathy Hermes will present "Working for the Revolution: Women in Revolutionary Connecticut" at the Huntington Homestead Museum, 36 Huntington Rd., Scotland, CT. It's going to be a full day of history about the the women who helped form our nation!
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Marlborough Days today.
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CT Explored, Center for CT Studies, ECSU History Dept & the Association for the Study of CT History will host “Present from the Start: People of Color in Connecticut’s Revolutionary Era, 1763-1836, ” a conference at Eastern CT State Univ. on Sept. 20, 2025.
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As a trustee of the Institute for American Indian Studies I want to encourage you to check out a museum gem in Washington, CT. We're celebrating our 50th anniversary, but many people have never heard of us. Join now and keep it going for the next 50 years! iaismuseum.charityproud.org/Membership/S...
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New Episode! www.ctexplored.org/sendakpod/

Artist / author Maurice Sendak was able to achieve significant and enduring success in art and children’s literature during his lifetime. We chat with Dr. Golan Moskowitz, author of Wild Visionary, Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context, published in 2021.
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We’re looking for items for our 2nd Annual Online Benefit Auction to support our Grating the Nutmeg podcast. We need gift certificates, restaurant cards, sports tickets…Email Kathy Hermes at publisher@ ctexplored.org to get started.
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Register Now! Eastern CT State University
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