The One Minute Geographer: All About Connecticut
A revised post with links to the series of 9 posts on Connecticut. The link at the end of each post will connect you to the next one if you want to read the series in sequence. Or you can pick out a few topics that interest you and click on those links below. Can The One Minute Geographer really do 9 posts on such a small state? Yes! If you intend to follow the whole series, click on the first story, People of the Nickname State below and follow from there. Here we go:
You can learn a lot about a state from its nickname(s). Connecticut’s official nickname is “The Constitution State” because its colonial constitution, “The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,” adopted in 1639, became a model for the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution State is also called the ‘Nutmeg State’ because so many Yankee peddlers sold nutmegs. The “Provisions State” refers to Connecticut’s role in supplying food, clothing and arms to the US Continental Army. And how about “The Land of Steady Habits?” We assume the PR firm that came up with that last one was terminated. We’ll see in later posts that we could also call Connecticut “The Insurance State,” or “The Hedge Fund State” or the “Defense Spending State.” Here’s the first post:
