Davis Dunavin
ReporterDavis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning and Peabody Award-nominated journalist, he is the host of WSHU's Off the Path and created and hosted the 2022 series Still Newtown. He also teaches classes in media studies at Sacred Heart University. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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Betty and Barney Hill were at the center of one of America’s most famous alien abduction cases. They were also an interracial couple and civil rights leaders at the time. But their alleged abduction on a late night in New Hampshire in 1961 — set them on a different path, according to a new book. -
Two people on a road trip in New Hampshire in 1961 were at the center of one of America’s first high-profile alien abduction cases. Their account of that night set the tone for how we imagine extraterrestrials today. -
Betty and Barney Hill said they had an encounter with aliens more than 60 years ago. Their story became the launching point for alien abductions in popular culture. They said it happened late one night on a lonely road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. -
The state of Maine has deep forests and rocky shores. It also has one small stretch of sandy dunes in the town of Freeport — that looks more like the Sahara than northern New England. -
Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting “Christina’s World” shows the reality of life for his longtime friend, a woman with a disability, on her farm in coastal Maine. -
Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting “Christina’s World” shows the reality of life for his longtime friend, a woman with a disability, on her farm in coastal Maine. -
“Christina’s World” is one of the most recognizable American paintings of the 20th century. It’s set in the coastal landscape of Maine. Artist Andrew Wyeth and his subject Christina still fascinates us 75 years later.
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The ACLU of Connecticut is calling for mandatory reporting of verbal warnings by police, and said all police involved in the ticket scandal should be decertified. It also wants independent oversight of state police. -
The U.S. Department of Energy named the University of Connecticut to run a technical analysis and support center for the effort. -
A small museum on an island in Maine boasts the world’s largest collection of a specific kind of artifact: umbrella covers. Not umbrellas — just the covers.
