Lunch and Learn: A History of LGBTQ Connecticut

Virtual

Throughout its history, Connecticut’s LGBTQ population has moved from leading hidden, solitary lives to claiming visible, powerful, valuable, and contributing places in society. Join us to explore the history of that experience: stories of oppression and resilience, tragedy and triumph.

Lunch and Learn: Mouth to Mouth – The Tooth Trade in Washington’s World

Virtual

In this virtual presentation, Lucy Smith, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will examine how this ideological shift fueled a tooth trade that traces the movement of early dentists throughout Connecticut, across the ocean, and at the intimate level of teeth moving from one mouth to another.

Short Attention Span Literary Club

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford, CT, United States

This month’s story is “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive," by Stephen King.

Lunch and Learn: A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington

Virtual

In this lunchtime talk, Will McLean Greeley will discuss how Connecticut Senator George P. McLean helped establish lasting legal protections for birds, overseeing passage of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Lunch and Learn: Hannah Watson and Women Printers in Early America

Virtual

In this lunchtime talk, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, C.C. Borzilleri, addresses how the work of women printers could prove to be the critical component in keeping print businesses and newspapers alive in early America.

Short Attention Span Literary Club

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United States

This month’s story is “The Door" by E.B. White.

Short Attention Span Literary Club

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United States

This month’s story is “Passion" by Alice Munro.

Free

Lunch and Learn: Remembering G. Fox & Co.

Virtual

Join us for a virtual overview of the history of the iconic department store, and the story of Beatrice Fox Auerbach, the pioneering businesswoman who led G. Fox & Co. through its golden age.

Free