WELCOME TO HOG RIVER JOURNAL
We're celebrating our 5th Anniversary

You'll find each issue fascinating, illuminating, and a joy to read with its beautifully printed four-color pages and big glossy images (many more images than we show on our Web site).

HRJ is brought to you by a consortium of the best thinkers and writers on our cultural heritage—so you know it's a quality publication in every way.

Subscriptions are just $21 a year or less for four high quality issues per year. Each issue is richly illustrated issues with stories from throughout the state and from the Colonial era to the mid-20th century.

What’s Hog River Journal All About?

You'll learn about the state's incredible collections and archives from historians, curators, and history buffs who are passionate about their topics, topics that include medicine, business, the arts, cultural customs, politics, pastimes, preservation, architecture, technology and more!

Our readers love how each issue is organized around a theme and yet there's also surprising variety. Each issue offers an illuminating photo essay, oral histories, stunning museum objects, must-see destinations, plus four in-depth feature stories.

What’s the Hog River?

Readers often tell us about their childhood escapades swimming in the Hog River--the river that inspired this magazine. HOG RIVER JOURNAL is named for the capital city's "Little River," known more commonly years ago as the Hog River for the pig farms, tanneries, and tenements that used it to flush waste away. In the mid-1800s, city leaders renamed it the Park River to better reflect the beauty of the new Bushnell Park. But by any name, this tiny tributary had a penchant for overflowing its banks, and it was buried in twin concrete conduits under the city in the early 1940s. Read more about this storied waterway in A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History.