Travel in Time in Connecticut VOLUME 2

Day Trips to Historic Sites with Hidden Stories and Leadership Lessons

By: Dan Blanchard

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Discover the Hidden Stories of Connecticut, and the Leadership Lessons They Hold

Connecticut is filled with powerful stories hidden in plain sight. In Travel in Time in Connecticut Volume 2, author and educator Dan Blanchard takes you on a journey to ten historic sites where the past still speaks.

This isn’t just a history book. It’s an interactive travel guide designed to help you step into the past and come back stronger. Each chapter explores a real-life location you can visit in a single day, blending local history with timeless leadership principles.

Inside this volume, you will:

*Explore Innovation & Responsibility: Visit the Eli Whitney Museum to see how one invention reshaped a nation and learn why leaders must weigh the unintended consequences of progress.

*Witness Moral Courage: Walk through Farmington, the “Village of Amistad,” and discover how a community’s collective action changed the course of justice.

*Study Championship Culture: Go behind the scenes of UConn Basketball to see how disciplined leadership built the “Basketball Capital of the World”.

*Meet Ordinary Heroes: Learn the stories of Revolutionary figures like Israel Putnam and the “Forgotten Founder of American Intelligence,” Thomas Knowlton.

Whether you are a teacher looking for classroom inspiration, a lifelong learner, or a traveler seeking your next New England adventure, this book provides the itineraries and insights to turn history into a real-life experience.

Stop just studying history. Start experiencing it.