{"id":2312,"date":"2020-03-10T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2020-03-10T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:19:25","slug":"new-app-makes-it-easy-to-tour-historic-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/10\/new-app-makes-it-easy-to-tour-historic-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"New app makes it easy to tour historic Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ConnTours-600x493.png\" alt=\"ConnTours logo\" data-id=\"2314\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ConnTours.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/conntours\/\" class=\"wp-image-2314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ConnTours.png 600w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ConnTours-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Connecticut Humanities (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/cthumanities.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Humanities<\/a> for its launch of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ConnTours (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/cthumanities.org\/programs\/conntours-mobile-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">ConnTours<\/a>, an app that lets you use your mobile device to tour Connecticut historic sites based on theme or municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app is a work in progress, but the themes so far include the Architectural Wonders Trail, the Leisure Trail, the Literary Trail, the Revolutionary Trail, the War of 1812 Trail, and the Women&#8217;s Heritage Trail. Hartford has stops on each of these trails (except, strangely, the Revolutionary Trail.)  The municipality section so far has only three towns or cities, but thankfully <a href=\"https:\/\/conntours.oncell.com\/en\/hartford-207711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Hartford is one of them (opens in a new tab)\">Hartford is one of them<\/a>. Overall, the project shows a lot of promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ConnTours app can be downloaded for free from <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.toursphere.conntours&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Google Play (opens in a new tab)\">Google Play<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/conntours\/id1455229269?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Apple's App Store (opens in a new tab)\">Apple&#8217;s App Store<\/a>. You can also use the <a href=\"https:\/\/conntours.oncell.com\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"website version (opens in a new tab)\">website version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Connecticut Humanities for its launch of ConnTours, an app that lets you use your mobile device to tour Connecticut historic sites based on theme or municipality. The app is a work in progress, but the themes so far include the Architectural Wonders Trail, the Leisure Trail, the Literary Trail, the Revolutionary Trail, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/10\/new-app-makes-it-easy-to-tour-historic-connecticut\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New app makes it easy to tour historic Connecticut&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,25],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technology","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}