Connecticut Web Sites

Of Interest to Homeschoolers

Revised September 25, 1996.

What's New?
I have added a few new entries.
(Gillette Castle, WVIT TV, WTNH)

The list is broken into the following categories:

Businesses
Connecticut Specific
Field Trips/Historical Interest
Radio/TV/Newspapers
Miscellaneous
Resources
Schools Online

Businesses

Grolier Interactive

Grolier Interactive, the international CD-ROM multimedia reference and entertainment publisher of the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Guinness Multimedia Disc of Records, Science Fiction encyclopedia, World Cup Soccer, and Modern Art.
Ransom Farm Pure Maple Syrup
We make maple syrup over a wood fire from sap collected from trees right here on the farm in Riverton, CT. We tap the trees in mid-February and make every attempt to have sap to boil every Sat. & Sun. through April. See our site for a map and stop in this spring or order on line!
Southern New England Telephone
Here is the Southern New England Telephone company (SNET) corporate web page, outlining the company and it's services. SNET is located in Connecticut and is always expanding the services offered to it's residents.
SNET Internet
Connecticut's leading Internet access provider / ISP providing statewide toll- free / local dialup access, hosting, customized email, web software and web launch pages exclusively for Connecticut businesses, residents, home offices and schools.
T-Line On-Line
The best on-line t-shirt store in the world with the funniest designs.
United Technologies Corporation
United Technologies Corporation. You can access the 1994 annual report, a progress report on UTC's activities to protect natural and human resources, a history of the company, editorials placed in the Hartford Courant, vital statistics, and a recruiting brochure that demonstrates the company's committment to diversity.

Connecticut Specials.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal introduces his office's home page, featuring consumer tips, news for senior citizens and the state's "Wanted" poster for child support delinquents. Learn how to e-mail the attorney general's office.
Connecticut Huskies Athletics
This is the official page of the Connecticut Huskies Athletics programs.
Central Connecticut State University Library WWW Server
Provides information on Connecticut Internet Resources, local campus information, and Conn. State University documents. Officially recognized and supported by the University.
CT Internet Service Providers
CT's The List Entry
The first is a WWW page listing all the specifically CT based Internet Access Providers, by their POP (connect town) sites. This way, anyone in Connecticut can quickly and easily find all the ISP's that are local to them, without having to search through a number of different lists and calling all the ISP's.

The second (The List) describes all known providers of Internet services in CT (both CT based and national) along with their rates and contact information. This list is more comprehensive, but does not give the specific town availability of the first list.

Connecticut's Best Restaurants
A database of 600 + Connecticut Restaurants sorted by location and cuisine. Plus: an on-line Ct food and restaurant magazine featuring reviews, articles on coffee, wine, lifestyles, etc. A great site to visit when planning a night out, a family party, and more.
Connecticut Education Association
The Connecticut Education Association, a membership organization, promotes the rights and interests of its members, and advocates for public education and learners. It is an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Connecticut House Republicans
The Connecticut House Republican home page consisting of biographies of legislators, the towns they represent, the committees they serve on and press releases. Search for your representative by the town you live in. Snail mail addresses, phone numbers and direct email links are provided.
Connecticut Law
Connecticut's Internet Legal Resource
Connecticut Republicans
The Connecticut Republicans web site provides the voters in Connecticut with access to Press Releases, links to State Central Committee members and Town Chairmen. We also have references to Republican related organizations around the country.
Connecticut Special Olympics
To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for all children and adults with mental retardation, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
State of Connecticut Home Page
The State of Connecticut Sponsored Home Page. State and local government, education, resources, lots more.
Connecticut Senate Democrats
This site provides information on each of the state's 17 Democratic state Senators: their current press releases, bios, and policy statements. Additionally, there is an interactive issues survey, information on legislative committees and procedure, State Capitol tour info., and a changing gallery of images of the State Capitol.
Joe Lieberman - Representing the people of Connecticut
This site is designed to help the people of Connecticut stay informed about Senator Liebermans activites in the United States Senate. We post a biography, position papers, speeches, and press releases.
QuietCorner
This is the on-line "Getaway Guide" from the Northeast Connecticut Visitors District. It provides information on events, tourism, lodging etc. in NE Connecticut.

Field Trips, Etc
Agricultural Fairs
1996 List of Local Agricultural Fairs
American Radio Relay League
AARL's Web Homepage for all you ham radio fans.
Bishop's Orchards
Bishop's Orchards has grown from a roadside stand in the 1910's to a simple, yet bustling market, handling only fresh fruits, vegetables and related farm products. Retaining the pride in being a real farm market, we give priority to what we grow.
Bradley International Airport
Bridgeport Public Library
A nice place to visit.
Business Traveller International Information
Country-specific information for 50 countries for international business travelers. Information is excerpted from Craighead's Business Reports, designed to help one conduct business successfully worldwide.
Connecticut's Highpoint Page
This page provides info on Connecticut's highpoint. It's not Bear Mtn as is commonly believed. It's located on the CT/MA border on the side of Mt. Frissell whose summit is in MA. A description of the highpoint, approaches, nearby points of interest, recommended guidebooks & maps, and other highpoint related links are provided.
Connecticut River Museum
The old steamboat dock in Essex is home to this Museum. The CT River story is told through changing exhibits, activities, and programs. A reproduction of the first submarine, The Turtle, by CT's David Bushnell is also on exhibit.
Fairfield County
A home page for Fairfield County
Gillette Castle State Park
One of the most unique CT attractions. The home of the famous actor overlooks the CT River and has many special touches that all can enjoy.
Greater Hartford Convention and Visitiors Bureau
The ultimate success of any meeting is determined by its setting. And whether you are planning a convention, a conference, or a more intimate get-together, no setting is more conducive to success than Hartford.
Housatonic Valley Tourism's WWW
Housatonic Valley Tourism opened to the public on August 30, 1995. It features a variety of information on things to see and do in the Housatonic Valley region of western Connecticut, including sports, historic sites, special places, and more. Connecticut's children and youth, information of use to parents and other caregivers, and a gateway for other Internet resources of interest.
Mystic Information Network
Southeastern Connecticut's on-line source for news, entertainment and information, featuring local news, classifieds, contests, local advertising, events and more!
Mystic Regional Information
Learn about Southeastern Connecticut. Home of Foxwoods Casino, Mystic Seaport, Mystic Aquarium, and much more. Stop here first when planning a trip to Mystic to find our things to do, places to go, and good things to eat!
Mystic Tourist Information Center
Getaway to Southeastern CT, a premiere vacation spot in Southern New England featuring historic sites, casino gambling, boating, beaches, camping and more!
Mystic Seaport
The most popular tourist attraction in CT.
Noah Webster
Nearby West Hartford is the birth place and childhood home of Noah Webster, author of the first American Dictionary. The home, a museum of West Hartford History, is open for tours.
Oakdale musical theatre
Connecticut's musical theatre. See the new Oakdale and find out what great shows you want to see.
The Shubert Performing Arts Center
The site contains information on current performances which include Damn Yankees, Carousel, Cats, the Bolshoi Ballet, and Marvin Hamlisch. There is also a growing listing of the theater's rich history. During the 80+ years the Shubert has operated, it has accommodated more than 3,000 productions of all kinds of performing arts. It earned its "birthplace of the nation's greatest hits" mantle by offering more than 300 world premieres, some 50 American premieres and presented about 200 shows prior to their New York openings. Mary Martin, Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly, and many others had their first big breaks on shows appearing on the Shubert stage.
Sounds of New Haven
The focal point for New Haven musical acrs on the World Wide Web. Includes links to home pages of New Haven musicians, reviews of current performances, and upcoming scedules. Pointers to on-line music samples and other WWW music archives are listed.
The Traprock Wilderness Recovery Strategy
The Traprock Wilderness Recovery Strategy is a plan to restore wilderness to the Traprock Ridge ecosystem of the Central Valley in Connecticut. Sponsored by CT Preserve Appalachian Wilderness.
Walter's Virtual Radio Museum
Gallery of historical information relating to broadcasting.

TV/Radio/Newspapers

Acorn Press Newspapers
The Acorn Press newspapers now has a web site with extensive information on the towns of Ridgefield, Wilton, Redding, and Weston. We also carry much regional tourism information.
The Bargain News Classified Ads
Search the want ads statewide, now online! Nicely categorized and set up to search. Updates every Thursday morning.
Connecticut Magazine
This is Connecticut Magazine's Web site, with dining out listings, calendar events, a monthly special (Connecticut golf courses in August), a gardening page, rating the towns, a trivia contest and more. Get the most out of Connecticut with a visit to this site!
The Hartford Courant
Connecticut's largest newspaper online. Daily Updates.
The New Haven Mag
New Haven Mag -- Regional E-Zine and BBS -- the HYPERACTIVE guide to Greater New Haven on the World Wide Web.
The New Haven Register (Connecticut Central)
Brand new offering from New Haven's Daily Newspaper. A varied site with mateial from the newspaper, online forums of local issues, community information and more.
News-Times newspaper in Danbury
Record Journal
A central Connecticut newspaper focusing on the local communities of Meriden, Southington, Cheshire and Wallingford. In addition to providing local news online, we offer classified ads, a local mortgage rates table, a Ct. dining guide, Jim Zebora's "What's Brewing" column, and much more!
WDRC Radio
WSHU- Radio
Fairfield CT's public radio station, WSHU-FM -- The Classic -- at 91.1, featuring timeless music and timely news for Southern Connecticut and Long Island.
WTIC AM 1080 and 96.5 WTIC FM
The news talk leader in New England, and today's best music.
WTNH-TV
The ABC affiliate, Channel-8, late in coming, but looking attractive, so far.
WVIT-TV
NBC's CT affiliate, Channel 30

Miscellaneous

Bulletin Boards
Participate in ongoing discussions on almost any topic - seeking advice or share information. 142 active boards. If a topic does not exist on a subject your intrested in, you can create it. FREE SERVICE - HAVE FUN
Atlantic Computing Technology Corporation
Atlantic provides professional Internet and private network consulting for businesses. Atlantic also maintains the Connecticut Guide -- an information service about the state of Connecticut.

JF Kennedy's Weather Club
Weather newsletter, along with many valuable weather and astronomy links.
James Bair Software - We Vanquish Your Anguish
Review & download shareware to Vanquish your anguish about English Grammar, College Entrance exams, and programming problems. Include programs for online Grammar help and strategies for doing your best on the SAT, ACT, GRE, and similar entrance exams.
KidsLink
Let us introduce Connecticut KidsLink, a new WWW site built and maintained by Citizens for Connecticut's Children and Youth and currently housed on the Yale University computer. It's purpose is to provide access to a range of timely information about pending policy developments that impact on Connecticut's children and youth, information of use to parents and other caregivers, and a gateway for other Internet resources of interest.
Netlibs-Madlibs on the Internet!
An interactive Netgame! Connecticut's First!
Patriotweb
Search New England's only comprehensive list of sports, travel, government, education, business, health links and much much more. We welcome you to add your New England related links. Thanks for visiting!

Resources

BMP Audio and Music Publishing
Produces a unique series of audiobooks featuring the world's foremost actors reading poetry & stories. Profits to children's charities. Also music production and composition for film & video soundtrack. Original catalog of songs.
Brookfield Craft Center
The nonprofit Brookfield Craft Center has a new web site which lists our events and activities including arts & crafts classes, exhibitions and other public service programs.
MecklerWeb's iWORLD
MecklerWeb's iWORLD provides a solution by being positioned as Internet Users' "First Stop on the Internet", where they can find the very latest Internet news, tips, how-to, product reviews, resources, directories, and expert commentary.
PC Lube and Tune
Tutorials and articles on PC hardware, communications, networks, and operating systems. The objective is to use Web technology to introduce or document more complicated PC topics to the ordinary users of the Internet. This is not an official project of Yale university.
SciNetPhotos
Information on the 30,000 science photo inventory of Hank Morgan Photography.
Scott's Internet Hotlist
Scott's Internet Hotlist, originates in Greenwich, (Byram), Connecticut. Last October PC Magazine voted it the best hotlist on the internet, and McKinley recently gave it a four star rating.

Schools Online

Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES)
Educational information for K-12 school districts in Connecticut.
Central Connecticut State University Library WWW Server
Provides information on Connecticut Internet Resources, local campus information, and Conn. State University documents. Officially recognized and supported by the University.
Central Connecticut State University, student Web Server
The student administered WWW server at Central Connecticut State University. This server is available to all students of CCSU. Students are encouraged to create their own home pages.
Choate Rosemary Hall School
A well known secondary school in Wallingford.
CT Higher Education
Higher Education in the state of Connecticut.
Connecticut College
Connecticut College Home Page, New London
Connecticut Community-Technical Colleges Home Page
The Community-Technical Colleges of Connecticut. This page provides links to the 12 Community-Technical Colleges in Connecticut.
Connecticut State University System
Connecticut State University System, state government information.
Flight Schools of Connecticut
List of Connecticut Flight Schools, local weather, CFI tips!
Hartford Graduate Center
The Hartford Graduate Center's World-Wide Web server contains information about its academic programs, courses, departments and services. In addition, it serves as a gateway to the Internet, providing convenient access to local and global network resources to the HGC community. ourism or Sport.
LEARN
Regional Education Service Center for Southeastern Connecticut
Quinnipiac College School of Law
The School of Law Center, located at the base of Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden, is the state's most modern and technically equipped law school. Visit our site to learn more about legal education, student services and our new facility.
Southern Connecticut State University WWW Server
The main WWW server for Southern Connecticut State University. Provides campus information as well as links to other campus servers and the SCSU gopher.
Trinity College
There are many things on this server, most notable of which is the Trincoll Journal - a multimeda magazine.
University of Connecticut UCINFO Husky Web
The central web server for the University of Connecticut. You can get to all other UConn based web servers along with the UCINFO Husky gopher through this site.
UConn: Spirit of UConn
Library resources with various CDROM archives and GIS/Census database. Home of ArchNet, an archaeological resource focusing on Northeastern United States archaeology
University of Hartford
Hartford, Connecticut.
University of New Haven
Information about the school and its programs
Wesleyan University
Home Page for Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Western Connecticut State University
Western Connecticut State University, This is the main WWW server for Western. It provides a variety of information about the university, including campus maps, current events, admissions information, and homepages for many academic and administrative departments.
Yale University
Primarily the departments of Computer Science, Math, Psychology, the "Zoo" (an undergraduate computing lab), Parallel Supercomputing, and Applied and Theoretical Neurosciences.
Yale-New Haven Medical Center
This site contains information about the Medical Center and its constituent organizations, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Yale University School of Medicine, and the Yale University School of Nursing. You will also find links to valuable external biomedical Internet resources.