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.
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online programming
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
Ann Petry: Life and Legacy
VirtualLearn about one of Connecticut's most unique and powerful literary voices.
Free
Lunch and Learn: Discover Connecticut’s Black Antebellum Communities
VirtualPre-Civil War Black communities provided free and enslaved people in Connecticut with spiritual, economic, social, and personal opportunities that people used to build rich, meaningful lives. Join us to learn about a recent project at the Connecticut Museum that aims to bring these lives into focus.
Free
Lunch and Learn: John Quincy Adams and the Amistad Affair
VirtualThis virtual presentation by Jeffrey A. Denman will explore John Quincy Adams’ involvement in the Amistad affair and his politics.
Free
Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month’s story is “I Stand Here Ironing," by Tillie Olson.
Lunch and Learn: Justices of the Peace and the American Revolution
VirtualThis virtual presentation, by Hannah Farber, is part of a book project on civil litigation in the early American republic, will use surviving justices' dockets to show how different types of magistrates--farmers, ministers, urban merchants, and Patriot enforcers--handled the provision of justice to their neighbors amid Revolutionary disruption.
Free
Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month’s story is “Shingles for the Lord," by William Faulkner.