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June 20, 2013	Connecticut Historical Society unveils its Amistad letters By Jim Shelton \| New Haven Register "The Amistad captives have come alive again, thanks to a bundle of letters that went public..." Read more...
June 2, 2013	Pain-Relief Exhibit At CHS By Susan Dunne \| Hartford Courant "Looking at the crude tools early American doctors used — without benefit of anesthesia — will make a person squirm." Read more...
May 16, 2013	Chloroform, Whiskey, and Morphine By Kerri Provost \| Real Hartford "It’s easy to judge those who practiced these dangerous procedures or administered habit-forming, and likewise, dangerous substances…to think of them as terribly archaic, but the presence of equipment that only recently went out of vogue, or in some cases, continues to be used, shows that the industry has not made leaps and bounds across the board." Read more...
April 2013	Stories related to the Cowles-Amistad-Farmington Letters: Pre-Auction: Farmington Woman's Abolitionist Correspondence To Be Auctioned By Susan Dunne \| Hartford Courant \| Read here... Amistad items to be auctioned; letters, engravings draw attention of historians By Jim Shelton \| The New Haven Register \| Read here... Post-Auction: Conn. Historical Society wins Amistad letters in auction By Brian Burnell \| NECN (also picked up by NBC CT) \| Watch here... CT Historical Society Pays $66,000 For Abolitionist Letters By Susan Dunne \| Hartford Courant \| Read here... Trove of Amistad letters will stay in Connecticut By Jim Shelton \| The New Haven Register \| Read here... Historical Letters Are Acquired By Connecticut Historical Society Images by Hartford Courant \| View here... Connecticut Historical Society buys Amistad letters By John Christoffersen \| The Associated Press \| Read at WTNH here, Norwich Bulletin here + 57 other media sources Connecticut Historical Society purchases Amistad letters for $66,000 By Associated Press \| The Hour \| View here...
April 2013	Stories related to the CHS Community Cook-Off: We're Making Top Hat Burgers with Jenny Steadman. Better Connecticut \| WFSB \| Watch here... In the Kitchen: CHS Community Cook-Off. Connecticut Style \| WTNH \| Watch here... Community Cook-Off Benefits At Connecticut Historical Society. Morning Extra \| Fox CT \| Watch here... Additional coverage in Hartford Magazine here and CT.com here and here Aspic "The Winner" At the CHS Community Cook-Off. By MaryEllen Fillo \| JAVA, Hartford Courant \| Read here... Pictures, Hartford Courant, view here...
January 18, 2013	Cooking by the Book: Amelia Simmons to Martha Stewart By Kerri Provost \| RealHartford.com A review of the CHS/CCSU/UofH collaborative exhibit. Read more...
January 14, 2013	Cooking by the Book at the Connecticut Historical Society By Michael Hamad \| ct.com \| Hartford Advocate Glimpse how our forebears used to feed themselves and their kinfolk. Read more...
November 2012	Stories related to the return of stolen documents to the CHS: Stolen Letters From George Washington, Napoleon, Coming Back To Connecticut By Edmund H. Mahony \| The Hartford Courant \| November 13, 2012 Read more... Stolen artifacts returned to Connecticut Historical Society By WFSB Staff \| November 14, 2012 CHS is one of dozens of institutions from which valuable documents were stolen by Barry Landau. Watch the video... Connecticut Historical Society recovering stolen documents By The Associated Press \| New Haven Register \| November 14, 2012 Read more... Connecticut Historical Society Gets Back Dozens Of Stolen Items Antiques and the Arts \| November 27, 2012 First batch of stolen items has been returned to CHS by the National Archives. Read more...
November 9, 2012	Thank Goodness It's Connecticut: CT Historical Museum By Scot Haney \| WFSB \| Better Connecticut Scot Haney Visits CHS' Cats & Dogs in Art and Life exhibit. Watch the video...
November 9, 2012	Connecticut Historical Society's Executive Director to Retire West Hartford News CHS Executive Director announces retirement in 2013. Read more...
September 2012	Arts at Work By Krystian von Speidel \| Hartford Magazine \| HartfordMag.com A look at Hartford's vibrant cultural landscape Read more...
August 14, 2012	The State of CT Has an Array of Valuable and Strange Artifacts By Gregory B. Hladky \| Hartford Advocate \| CT.com With its rich colonial heritage, Connecticut's state artifacts are valuable, and some of them are pretty unusual, including some CHS items. Read more...
May 30, 2012	CT Historical Society Unveils "New" Resources for Historians & Genealogists PRWeb \| Connecticut Post \| ctpost.com Using digitization as a tool for preservation, the Connecticut Historical Society increases its resources by making previously stored documents available. Read more...
May 28, 2012	'Revolutionary' ads drawing industry praise by Sujata Srinivasan \| HartfordBusiness.com \| Hartford Business Journal Online CHS Executive Director, Kate Steinway, weighs in on the State's new "Still Revolutionary" brand campaign. Read more...
April 20, 2012	Historical Society Exhibit Features Vintage Furnishings From Connecticut Homes by Susan Dunne \| Hartford Courant \| courant.com Nickolas Kotula of Bloomfield, CT and Mickey Callahan, one of the founders of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, discuss the A Tradition of Craft exhibit. "'When you look at the furniture, it must talk to you,' Kotula says. 'What does this one say about the owner. It says I'm powerful, the owner has money, the owner has position in the community. The legs of the piece are powerful, This piece doesn't say Volkswagen. It doesn't even say Mercedes Benz. It says Rolls Royce.'" Read more...
April 16, 2012	Contemporary woodworkers show off historical techniques at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford by Michael Hamad \| Hartford Advocate \| CT.com "Who said furniture isn't sexy? Check out these two chairs, one from the present day (left, made in 2009 by John Rexroad) and one from the past (right, crafted in 1781 by Eliphalet Chapin)." Read more...
April 12, 2012	The Junior League Of Hartford Donates Archives To Connecticut Historical Society by Jessie Gagnon\| courant.com "'The addition of the Junior League of Hartford archives to the Connecticut Historical Society collection will provide researchers a new vantage point in studying the array of social issues addressed by the League in Hartford during the greater part of the Twentieth Century,' said Richard Malley, Head of Research and Collections at the Connecticut Historical Society." Read more...
April 2, 2012	A Tradition of Craft: Original, Reproduction, and Adaptation Furniture by Kerri Provost \| Real Hartford "In a time when particle board bookshelves are the norm, it is not difficult to be impressed by handcrafted, American-made furniture." Read more...
April 1, 2012	A Tradition of Craft by Steve Branam \| Close Grain: Woodworking in the Digital Age Woodworking hobbyist Steve Branam explored the A Tradition of Craft: Current Works by the Society of American Period Furniture Makers exhibit in his popular blog, Close Grain. Read more...
February 9, 2012	Rare "behind the scenes" tours now offered at CT Historical Society Museum by Andrew Beck \| examiner.com "The Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library has moved into this era of increased transparency in a big way. They are throwing open the doors to the locked rooms and climate controlled facilities that house the items from their vast collections that are seldom seen by the general public." Read more...
January 29, 2012	City Bench works with gifts provided by nature by Kristina Dorsey\| theday.com In conjunction with the New Life for Connecticut Trees exhibit, this story features the work of City Bench and the Esselstyn brothers. "When the grand old maple in front of Ivoryton Playhouse came down in 2010, it marked the loss not just of a tree but of some history." Read more...
January 23, 2012	Trees Transformed At Connecticut Historical Society by Joanne Greco Rochman \| CBS Connecticut Review of the New Life for Connecticut Trees exhibit, featuring furniture by Ted and Zeb Esselstyn of City Bench. "'What the Esselstyns do is to let the shape of the wood inspire the piece,' explained Gammell who also pointed out that some of the interpretation of the works include how the trees improve the cities and the environment. Read more...
May 22, 2011	'Making Connecticut' Explores State's History by Roger Catlin \| The Hartford Courant "For its first newly installed 'permanent' exhibit in 12 years, in a newly widened exhibition space spreading 4,000 square feet, the staff chose 500 items to best tell the story, and there are a lot of stories to tell." Read more...

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