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Pilgrim Hall Museum’s 200th Anniversary Rustic English Country Masque & Ball: September 1
Pilgrim Hall Museum’s 200th Anniversary Rustic English Country Masque & Ball: September 1
Sunday, September 1st, 6:30 - 9pm Join our festive 17th-century style Masque and English Country dance party in the original 1824 Main Hall as you’ve never seen it before—just emptied of its artworks in preparation for major renovation - PERFECT FOR A ONCE–EVERY–TWO–CENTURIES PARTY! TO BENEFIT THE LIGHT THE WAY RESTORATION CAMPAIGN Music by SEVEN […]
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The Cove Warehouse at Wethersfield Cove
The Cove Warehouse at Wethersfield Cove
The Cove Warehouse is open Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, late May through early October. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. The venerable Cove Warehouse on our Wethersfield Cove dates to the late 17th century; it is the last remaining of six warehouses that stood on the river’s edge to accommodate […]
Headstone Lettering Demonstration at Hempsted Houses , New London
Headstone Lettering Demonstration at Hempsted Houses , New London
Joshua Hempsted held many positions throughout his lifetime, one of which was headstone letterer. On Wednesday, December 27th, 1749, our diarist writes, “fair & cold I finisht engraving a headstone for Samll Bills wife.” Join headstone carver Andrew Carr as he re-creates a headstone using Joshua’s lettering style with 18th–century carving techniques. A tour of […]
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Slice of America: Pizza Documentary Premiere at the New Haven Museum at New Haven Museum
Slice of America: Pizza Documentary Premiere at the New Haven Museum at New Haven Museum
The New Haven Museum and Best Video will join forces to present director Gorman Bechard and pizza historian Colin M. Caplan for the premiere screening of “Slice of America: Charred in the Florida Sun,” on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at 7 p.m., preceded by a wine/beer reception at 6 p.m. with pizza bites from Pepe’s, […]
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Artists in Conversation | Ken Gonzales-Day at Yale Center for British Art
Artists in Conversation | Ken Gonzales-Day at Yale Center for British Art
Ken Gonzales-Day will talk with Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Yale Center for British Art, about Composition in Black and Brown, a two-part public art project emerging from his engagement with the collections of the Center and the Yale Peabody Museum. A reception will follow. About Ken Gonzales-Day Born in 1964 in Santa Clara, […]
Samson Occom: Indigenous Sovereignty in Revolutionary Connecticut atConnecticut Museum of Culture and History
Samson Occom: Indigenous Sovereignty in Revolutionary Connecticut atConnecticut Museum of Culture and History
In an age of political upheaval, Samson Occom (1723-1792) helped chart a new course for the Native communities of the Northeast. Occom grew up a Mohegan immersed in his people’s traditional lifeways, and worked to reinvent those lifeways in a world transformed by colonialism. Occom rose to international fame advocating for Mohegan interests, and eventually […]
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Summer Pipes & Cider at Palmer-Warner House, East Haddam
Summer Pipes & Cider at Palmer-Warner House, East Haddam
Sip cider and connect with Scotland during a trail walk around the beautiful Palmer-Warner led by Portland & District Pipers. Enjoy local cider tastings from Yankee Cider Co. including a signature “Dunstaffnage” bourbon designed to take you to the Scottish Moors through hints of Highland peat smoke. Bring your friends to test your knowledge in […]
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Take a Tour of Connecticut’s beautiful State Capitol building
Take a Tour of Connecticut’s beautiful State Capitol building
Capitol Information and Tours at the Connecticut State Capitol is operated by the League of Women Voters of Connecticut Education Fund and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management, Connecticut General Assembly. General tourist information centers are located outside room 101 in the State Capitol and on the first floor, west entrance in the […]
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A Celebration of Flower Shows Presented by the Garden Club of Old Greenwich Over the Last 100 Years
A Celebration of Flower Shows Presented by the Garden Club of Old Greenwich Over the Last 100 Years
The Way We Were Join us on Wednesday, September 25 at Innis Arden Cottage at Greenwich Point from 2-5 PM for our Horticulture Specialty Flower Show "The Way We Were" -A Celebration of Flower Shows presented by the Garden Club of Old Greenwich over the last 100 Years ! Open to the Public Wednesday, September […]
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Exhibit: “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at Weston History & Culture Center
Exhibit: “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at Weston History & Culture Center
Through March 2, 2025. Open Sundays and Thursdays from 1pm - 4pm. The yard of one of Weston’s oldest homes, the Peter Thorp House, reveals its past lives in the new exhibit, “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at the Weston History & Culture Center. What started out as a weekend garden project turned into a discovery of […]
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Yale Symposium: A Puritan Picture: Vanity, Morality, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Purchased by the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) at auction in June 2021, the painting was recognized as a work of outstanding significance to the study of early modern race and gender. After an export stop, it was acquired by Compton Verney, an art gallery in Warwickshire that is housed in a Grade […]
History on Tap at the Keller Tavern Museum in Rigefield
History on Tap at the Keller Tavern Museum in Rigefield
Enjoy a fun evening of beer tastings, delicious food, and live programming! We're going back to our historic tavern roots with this great annual event, featuring local breweries like Counter Weight and Nod Hill. More breweries to be announced soon! Tickets include unlimited tastings, a branded glass, and dinner from Melt Mobile food truck. For […]
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William Saunders & His World- Hartford History Lecture Series
William Saunders & His World- Hartford History Lecture Series
Dr. Fiona Vernal, UConn History Department For three generations, the Saunders family operated a successful and innovative tailor business in the city of Hartford, eventually establishing a reputation as Black merchant tailors with deep ties in Hartford’s Black and white communities. Their network stretched from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York to Barbados and France. This […]
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Elections and Cakes: Connecticut Revolutions at New Haven Museum
Elections and Cakes: Connecticut Revolutions at New Haven Museum
Making Election Day a state holiday in 17th century Connecticut was a revolution. So was making Election Cake to celebrate it in the 18th century. Through the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, journals of Thoreau, sermons of Ezra Stiles, petitions by Black citizens, period cookbooks, diaries, magazines, and memoirs, food historian Dr. Linda Civitello will […]