Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month, we discuss “Bullet in the Brain,” by Tobias Wolfe.
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online programming
Lunch and Learn: The Southern New England Apprenticeship Program
VirtualJoin program manager, Philitha Stemplys-Cowdrey, and SNEAP alumni as they discuss the program and the importance of sustaining traditional arts.
Lunch and Learn: Mouth to Mouth – The Tooth Trade in Washington’s World
VirtualIn 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 StatesThis month’s story is “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive," by Stephen King.
Lunch and Learn: A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington
VirtualIn 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
VirtualIn 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 StatesThis month’s story is “The Door" by E.B. White.
Lunch and Learn – Darned, Patched, and Mended: Repairing Textiles in 18th Century America
VirtualIn this virtual presentation, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellow Emily Whitted will utilize examples from her research in the museum and archival collections at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History to investigate the history of textile repair in early America.
Lunch and Learn – Slavery’s Hinterlands: Rural New England in the Atlantic World
VirtualThis virtual presentation by Isaac Lee, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will explore this history and explain how rural New England sustained Atlantic slavery.
Short Attention Span Literary Club
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesThis month’s story is “Passion" by Alice Munro.
Free
Lunch and Learn: Remembering G. Fox & Co.
VirtualJoin 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
Lunch and Learn: Indigenous Unfreedom and Race Making in Early New England
VirtualThis virtual presentation by Dr. Joanne Jahnke-Wegner, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will examine how English enslavement of Indigenous peoples during the Pequot and King Philip's Wars contributed to the racialization of Indigenous peoples in early New England.
Free