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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Connecticut’s Local Leaders: Creating the State and Economy in the Early Republic
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nLocal leaders have long been studied as managers of daily affairs in their communities\, yet this presentation offers a narrative in which they attain national significance. In this virtual talk\, Elliot Warren illustrates how local magistrates in the 1780s and 1790s influenced the development of political economy—how the state interacts with markets—because of their role in overseeing local economies. As authorities acting in relative isolation from state and federal authorities\, local leaders had ample leeway to shape economic development in the early republic’s most valuable cities and towns. \nElliot’s talk will focus on how local leaders in Connecticut were integral to the development of an ‘American’ political economy. Through the lens of four distinct themes—security\, money\, representation\, and commerce—the talk will highlight the role Connecticut’s local leaders played on a grand scale. The 1780s and 1790s were times of great crisis\, from money scarcity to economic depression and the threat of invasion\, yet the state and federal governments were unable to face these challenges alone. Local leaders were essential participants in the defense of the nation from without and within. Working to protect and promote their communities\, leaders of Connecticut’s towns and cities contributed to the growth of a strong central state\, forever changing the way the American state interacts with the economy. \nElliot Warren\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, conducted research at the Connecticut Museum in the fall of 2024. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. Questions? Contact Jen Busa\, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the speaker:  Elliot Warren is a PhD candidate at the College of William & Mary and the recipient of a short-term fellowship from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. His dissertation\, from which this talk is adapted\, compares local governments in southern New England and Virginia to better understand the role local leaders played in the creation of the American state. Elliot is originally from New Jersey and received his BA from the George Washington University in 2018 and his MA from William & Mary in 2019. His work has been supported by the Library Company\, the Massachusetts Historical Society\, the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry\, and the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims. \nImage: Re-enactment of First Town Meeting in Meriden\, 1906. Photograph. 1980.80.16\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nget free tickets
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-connecticuts-local-leaders/
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut\, 1933–42
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nAs a flagship program of the New Deal\, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of several federal agencies that turned to the natural and built environment to promote sociocultural homogenization between the First and Second World Wars. \nIn this virtual presentation\, Dr. James Fortuna will investigate the CCC’s role as an agent of national transformation and considers the links between the New Deal’s treatment of the American landscape and its promotion of a new\, more pluralistic national identity.  Dr. Fortuna will also highlight some of his findings within the special collections of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History throughout his time in residence as a 2024 NERFC fellow. \nIn assessing a few specific case studies from around the Nutmeg State\, it will become clear that the Corps acted as a key vehicle of the unifying message that drove the New Deal and its many so-called ‘alphabet agencies’ from the depths of economic depression to a state of preparedness as the country headed toward global war. Accordingly\, this talk considers the Corps’ role in the New Deal’s construction of popular historical consciousness and draws attention to the frequent interactions between a diverse range of urban-born enrollees and rural populations before concluding with a timely discussion of the legacy and ultimate fate of these structures. How\, if at all\, should they be preserved? Whose responsibility is it to decide? What value might they hold in the twenty-first century United States? \nIn previous publications\, Dr. Fortuna has argued that this agency played a more significant socio-cultural role than many historians have realized. His current book project\, tentatively entitled The Civilian Conservation Corps in New England\, 1933–42\, will expand on this idea by tracing the Corps’ impact on everyday Americans from Mystic to Maine. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link.  Questions? Contact Public Programs Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Dr. James Fortuna teaches American history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is a historian of the American experience with an interest in transatlantic and transpacific people\, places\, and spaces. His research focuses primarily on the twentieth century and is situated at the intersection of cultural and diplomatic history. \nImage: A young man’s opportunity for work\, play\, study & health / Bender; made by Illinois WPA Art Project\, Chicago. United States\, 1941. [Chicago: Illinois WPA Art Project] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/92513367/. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nGET FREE TICKETS
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-civilian-conservation-corps/
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Connecticut Yankee Occupation of St. Augustine\, FL\, 1862-1865
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nFrom 1862-1865 the 7th\, 10th\, and 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry regiments occupied the “Ancient City” of St. Augustine\, Florida during the American Civil War. Their experiences with African Americans changed throughout the course of the war\, as government policy turned from a conciliatory approach to more stern measures. During this time\, Connecticut soldiers contended with the boredom of occupation duty\, the problem of feeding and sheltering African American refugees\, and the constant threat of guerrilla violence in the surrounding countryside. \nIn this virtual presentation\, Dr. Eric Paul Totten\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will discuss the eclectic experiences of the Connecticut Yankees in and around the Ancient City during the American Civil War.  Dr. Totten’s presentation will highlight a few interesting finds from the Connecticut Museum collection. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. Questions? Contact Public Programs Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Dr. Eric Paul Totten completed his Ph. D. in 2020 at the University of Arkansas where he is currently an Instructor in the Department of History. He is the author of[] [/] “Civil-Military Communities in Conflict: The 1862 Occupation of St. Augustine\, Florida\, and the Politics of Emancipation\,” in G. David Schieffler and Matthew Smith eds. Hundreds of Little Wars: Community\, Conflict\, and the Real Civil War which will be published by LSU Press in 2025. \nImage: Joseph Roswell Hawley\, 1861-1865\, carte-de-visite by Prescott & Gage. 1910.5.1\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nget free tickets
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-connecticut-yankee-occupation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Black History,Lunch and Learn,online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Authors and Entrepreneurs: Black Self-Publishers in New England
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nBryan Sinche\, Professor of English and department chair at the University of Hartford\, is the author of the new book Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. The book focuses on 19th century writers who used self-publication to bypass white gatekeepers and editors and share unique stories that address the social\, political\, and economic realities of Black life in the United States. \nJoin us for a virtual presentation\, as Bryan discusses how self-publishers created and sold their books and highlights the stories of two New England self-publishers\, including Hartford’s own James Mars. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Bryan Sinche is Professor of English and department chair at the University of Hartford. To purchase Bryan’s new book\, Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature\, click here. \nCredit: James Mars\, Winsted\, photographed by Thomas M. V. Doughty\, ca 1870. 1993.6.0\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nGET FREE TICKETS
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-black-self-publishers/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Black History,online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Bound Out: The Spiritual Lives of Freeborn Black Domestic Servants
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nBefore she made history in 1831 as the first United States-born woman of any race to publicly address a mixed audience of men and women\, Maria Wellington Miller Stewart was orphaned and served a term of indenture in a clergyman’s household. The freeborn mixed-race woman of African descent explained that although she “had the seeds of piety and virtue . . . sown in [her] mind\, her “soul thirsted for knowledge.” \nIn this virtual presentation\, Jaimie Crumley\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will discuss how what historians have described as the fragility of freedom was made evident through the indenture system in early nineteenth-century Connecticut. For freeborn Black children like Maria Wellington Miller Stewart\, indenture offered a far better life than chattel slavery. Nevertheless\, it normalized subservience to white people and prevented them from attaining an education. This presentation discusses how her childhood as a domestic servant in a clergyman’s household might have influenced Stewart’s later political thought. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. \nQuestions? Contact Jen Busa\, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the speaker: Jaimie D. Crumley is an Assistant Professor in the Divisions of Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City\, Utah. She is currently working on a book project called We Will Live: Black Christian Feminists in the Age of Revolutions. We Will Live is about Christian women of African descent’s contributions to the abolitionist movement in New England from 1770 until 1870. \nGet free tickets\n  \nImage: Yerrinton\, James Brown\, and William Lloyd Garrison. “The Liberator.” Newspaper. Boston\, Mass.: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp\, Volume 3\, Number 8\, February 3\, 1833\, page 31. Digital Commonwealth\, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/mc87rp03x (accessed April 24\, 2024).
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-spiritual-lives/
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CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - “Anomalous Characters”: The Children of the Loyalists
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nDuring the American Revolution\, wartime loyalties and civilian violence prompted tens of thousands of former colonists to abandon their homes and relocate as refugees to other parts of the British Empire. To cite one\, contemporary refrain\, “The Tories with their brats and wives/Have fled to save their wretched lives.” As the guns quieted and the smoke cleared\, the bitter complaints of the unhappy absentees prolonged the settlement of revolutionary disputes for decades to come. \nWhat would become of the loyalists? Contradictory judicial rulings between Britain and the United States in the aftermath of independence meant adolescent participants in the loyalist exodus retained legal rights to membership within both polities. It was an accident of unsettled disagreements\, and an uneasy affront to the long-standing political ideologies which presumed total allegiance to a single national character\, and no others. Federal directions were slow to respond. Private citizens more often determined what was possible. \nIn this virtual presentation\, Shea Hendry\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will discuss this complex period and explore how individuals like William Birdseye Peters and Prudence Punderson\, both children of prominent Connecticut loyalists\, help to reveal the boundaries of the new national divide and its surprising pliancy among the many people who did not yet feel different. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. \nQuestions? Contact Jen Busa\, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker: Shea Hendry is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her research is focused on the children of loyalist exiles in the “Age of Revolution\,” though she is broadly interested in refugee communities\, national identity\, and transnational exchange. She previously completed her MS in Library Science\, with a concentration in Archive Management\, and her MA in History at Simmons University in Boston\, Massachusetts. \nget free tickets\n  \nImage: Payment ordered by Secretary George Wyllys for confiscated estate\, Connecticut Comptroller’s Office papers\, 1771-1885. Ms 68809\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. \n 
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-children-of-the-loyalists/
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CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Lyman Eppes - Black Yankee and Adirondack Pioneer
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nAmy Godine’s new book\, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (Cornell\, Fall 2023)\, tells the story of a rich abolitionist’s bid to colonize the Adirondack wilderness in 1846 by donating 120\,000 acres to 3\,000 impoverished Black New Yorkers before the Civil War. Gerrit Smith’s land gifts aimed to ease Black access to the ballot in an age when landless Black New Yorkers were disenfranchised. Frederick Douglass and New York’s leading Black reformers promoted Smith’s proposal with zeal. \nWhat does this story have to do with Connecticut? \nJoin us for this virtual presentation\, as Amy Godine traces this Adirondack story back to two key players that have Connecticut roots: Lyman Eppes and John Brown. The militant abolitionist\, John Brown\, born in Torrington\, Connecticut\, was an advocate of Smith’s plan and moved his family to Timbuctoo\, a new Black enclave in the Adirondack woods in 1849. \nAmy Godine will also introduce us to one of Smith’s grantees\, Lyman Eppes\, who was born in Colchester\, Connecticut. Eppes migrated to the Adirondacks with his family in 1849 and became Brown’s close friend and confidante. In his new home\, North Elba\, Eppes co-founded two churches\, a singing school\, and his town’s first library. The Eppes family’s tenure in the region spanned almost a century. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker: Publishers Weekly called Amy Godine’s The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (Cornell\, 2023)\, an “eye-opening…vital contribution to African American history.” From Saratoga Springs\, New York\, Amy Godine has been publishing articles and essays about Adirondack Black\, ethnic\, migratory\, and labor history\, since 1989. \nTo purchase Amy Godine’s The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier\, click here. Input discount promo code 09FLYER at check out for 30% off list price. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nGET TICKETS
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lyman-eppes/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Black History,online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Forgotten Chinese Generations
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nAAPI Heritage Month was established to recognize and honor the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history\, culture\, and achievements of the United States.  However\, the generations of Chinese who first arrived in this country in the 1850s\, who helped build the transcontinental railroads in the 1860s\, who fought in its wars\, and continuing through the 1960s\, were subjected to exclusion laws that denied them opportunities to achieve the “American Dream.” \nPresenter Irving Moy will trace the hardships the Chinese had to endure using the example of Moy Chack Fong\, his father.  Irving will discuss his father’s immigration story\, and the challenges he faced to achieve a better life for himself and his family under exclusion. \nThis virtual presentation is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker: Irving Moy is a first-generation Chinese American born in Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, where his parents owned and operated a Chinese hand laundry.  He is the first in his family to graduate from high school and college.  He retired as a manager with the CT Department of Public Health in healthcare regulation. Irving’s passion\, however\, is his reading and study of U.S. history\, especially\, of Abraham Lincoln\, and the Civil War Era.  In July 2008\, Governor M. Jodi Rell appointed him to serve as 1 of 15 members of the Connecticut Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.  He portrays Corporal Joseph Pierce\, a Chinese\, who enlisted in Company F\, 14th Regiment\, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry\, and fought in the Civil War\, at reenactments and living history events.  He is the author of An American Journey- My Father\, Lincoln\, Joseph Pierce\, and Me\, published in 2009\, the bicentennial year of Lincoln’s birth. \nImage: Objects from Wing Lee Laundry\, 1948-1960. 2023.14.1-.10\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-forgotten-chinese-generations/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Justices of the Peace and the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nJustices of the peace ruled on colonial Americans’ smallest disputes: an overdue IOU\, a corn crop damaged by swine\, a stolen shirt\, a hurtful public accusation. Then the Revolutionary War came.  Amid the war\, as Americans sorted out their relationships to the “Glorious Cause\,” many of the judges of small causes kept their offices and continued to go about their business. \nThis 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. Hannah recently conducted research at the Connecticut Museum for this project. \nThis virtual presentation is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker: Hannah Farber is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press\, 2021) and a series editor for American Beginnings: 1500-1900 at the University of Chicago Press. \nImage: Burn’s Abridgment\, or the American Justice (Dover\, New Hampshire\, 1792) \n 
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-justices-of-the-peace/
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CATEGORIES:online programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: John Quincy Adams and the Amistad Affair
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nIn this virtual presentation\, historian Jeffrey A. Denman will discuss John Quincy Adams’ background and experiences in politics beginning with the administration of George Washington. This talk will include the Amistad affair as it pertains to Connecticut\, and John Quincy Adams’ arguments in front of the Supreme Court resulting in the freeing of the captives. Denman will also touch on the evolution of Adams’ thinking and his actions in Congress. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa\, via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Historian Jeffrey A. Denman is the author of John Quincy Adams\, Reluctant Abolitionist. He is the co-author of Greene and Cornwallis: The Pivotal Struggle of the American Revolution\, 1780-1781.  His research focuses primarily on the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries in American history.  Jeff is a graduate of the University of Maine and the University of Connecticut and is a retired teacher of American History and World Geography in the Brookline Public Schools\, Brookline\, Massachusetts. He has also written several articles dealing with various aspects of the American Revolution\, the Civil War\, and World War II in various historical publications. \nTo purchase Jeffrey’s new book\, John Quincy Adams\, Reluctant Abolitionist\, click here. \nImage: A daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams created in March 1843 when he visited the studio of Philip Haas in Washington\, DC.  Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery\, Smithsonian Institution.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-jqa/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Indigenous Unfreedom and Race Making in Early New England
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nIn this virtual presentation\, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, Dr. Joanne Jahnke-Wegner\, 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. During the process of enslaving and dispossessing Indigenous peoples\, English colonists combined Atlantic world stereotypes of Indigenous peoples and their own colonial practices in Ireland with cultural\, theological\, military\, and economic discourses to racialize Indigenous peoples in order to justify colonial actions. English colonists created racialized habits of mind about Indigenous peoples that were used to justify continued Indigenous dispossession and marginalization in colonial New England. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Dr. Joanne Jahnke-Wegner is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire\, where she teaches classes on early America\, women and gender\, and race and medicine. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota and is currently at work on three articles and a book manuscript on captivity\, enslavement\, and race making in early New England. \nImage: Universal Images Group/Getty Images\, Washington Post\, December 20\, 2022
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-indigenous-unfreedom/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Slavery’s Hinterlands: Rural New England in the Atlantic World
DESCRIPTION:At the end of the seventeenth century\, ships and sugar streamed between the Caribbean and New England. Though it would be a mistake to suggest that New England was a slave society on par with South Carolina\, Barbados\, or Virginia\, New England’s economy grew larger and more powerful\, not because of slavery’s distance or marginality\, but because of its centrality. This Atlantic slave economy made an imprint across the entire region. Rural New Englanders provided the draft animals and the foodstuffs that Caribbean plantations relied on. They sought out and consumed the rum and sugar those plantations produced. In towns like Lebanon and Groton\, the enslaved faced unique forms of racism and oppression\, which reflect the particularities of New England town life. \nThis 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. \nThis virtual presentation is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nImage: “Spring on the Salmon River\,” an original painting by Maggie Arnold\, depicting Venture Smith’s homestead on Haddam Neck. The illustration is based on recent archaeological findings\, 2009.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-slaverys-hinterlands/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T130000
DTSTAMP:20230927T162834Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Darned\, Patched\, and Mended: Repairing Textiles in 18th Century America
DESCRIPTION:All things will one day break. In early America\, this rule also held true\, as material items regularly and repeatedly broke\, and required repair work for continued use and preservation. Textiles—perhaps the most ubiquitous\, valuable\, and fragile materials in early America—are no exception. But what can a darned stocking\, a patched pair of breeches\, or a mended foresail tell us about early America\, and why are textile repair practices worthy of notice? \nIn 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. By locating textile repair inside early American homes and workshops\, on the decks of ships\, and inside military camps\, she will explore mending as both a labor practice and a historical model for caring deeply\, whether through economic necessity or sentiment\, for the things around us. \nThis virtual presentation is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \n\nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nImage: Darned crewelwork fragment\, New England\, 1760. Wool on linen. Emily Whitted’s private collection.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-darned-patched-and-mended/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T130000
DTSTAMP:20230830T144239Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Mouth to Mouth - The Tooth Trade in Washington’s World
DESCRIPTION:In 1807\, dentist John Greenwood imported 4\,300 human teeth for 432 pieces of silver from a French Surgeon dentist. Greenwood constantly sought teeth to fill the increasing demand for dentures\, bridges\, and live tooth transplants\, including crafting several sets of dentures for George Washington. Greenwood was not alone in this need as eighteenth and early nineteenth-century dentists frequently advertised to purchase human teeth\, including Connecticut-based dentist Richard Skinner. Throughout the eighteenth century\, the discourses around teeth dramatically shifted as new systems of meanings developed as white\, straight\, and complete teeth became associated with virtue and American republicanism. \nIn 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. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-mouth-to-mouth/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220517T130000
DTSTAMP:20220420T230938Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: How Did Colonial New Englanders Cope with Mental Health Crises?
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual talk\, Professor Cornelia Dayton of the University of Connecticut will discuss on Euro-American settlers and mental health. She will discuss their repertoire of coping strategies (including conservatorships). While her research has shown that they were largely sympathetic and patient with acquaintances who struggled with depression and other mental afflictions\, White settlers’ sympathy did not extend to their Indigenous and African-descended neighbors.  \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker\nCornelia Dayton\, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut\, is currently researching mental health sufferers in New England until 1840\, emphasizing people’s life stories and the fault lines of race\, gender\, and social status. Her publications include Women before the Bar: Gender\, Law\, and Society in Connecticut\, 1639‑1789; Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (with Sharon V. Salinger); and a recent New England Quarterly article\, “Lost Years Recovered: John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters in Middleton.” \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nImage:  Atwood Barnabas lost notice\, Massachusetts Mercury\, June 11\, 1799
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-colonial-mental-health/
LOCATION:Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, 1 Elizabeth Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220215T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220215T130000
DTSTAMP:20220120T173753Z
CREATED:20220120T173619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T173753Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Prescribing from the Bookshelf: Bibliotherapy and the use of Books as Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever turned to a book for consolation? Treasured the escape of a novel? Found comfort in a poem\, self-help book\, or simply from reading the newspaper? \nPlease join us for a virtual presentation by Historian Mary Mahoney on bibliotherapy\, or the use of books as medicine. This talk will offer an exploration of the varied ways readers\, doctors\, and librarians have imagined books as medicine in the past. Focusing on case studies from 1800 to the present\, we’ll explore some of the earliest imaginings of books on a shelf as vials of medicine that could treat all manner of ills. This talk will explore some of the earliest literary prescriptions at nineteenth-century asylums\, question what books made the best medicine in the trenches of World War I\, and beyond. Readers who prescribe themselves literary cures will learn they are not alone in the practice\, and are in fact part of a larger story about the contested uses of reading. \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker \nMary Mahoney is a historian who studies the uses of books as medicine\, or bibliotherapy. Earning her Ph.D. in History from UCONN in 2018\, she is currently writing a history of bibliotherapy in the United States from 1800 to the present. She is also the co-host of the American Girls Podcast. \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nImage:  Bedside Library Service\, circa 1918.  American Library Association Archives
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-prescribing-from-the-bookshelf-bibliotherapy-and-the-use-of-books-as-medicine/
CATEGORIES:Events,Online Learning
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T130000
DTSTAMP:20220107T143859Z
CREATED:20220107T143859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220107T143859Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Prescribing from the Bookshelf: Bibliotherapy and the use of Books as Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever turned to a book for consolation? Treasured the escape of a novel? Found comfort in a poem\, self-help book\, or simply from reading the newspaper? \nPlease join us for a virtual presentation by Historian Mary Mahoney on bibliotherapy\, or the use of books as medicine. This talk will offer an exploration of the varied ways readers\, doctors\, and librarians have imagined books as medicine in the past. Focusing on case studies from 1800 to the present\, we’ll explore some of the earliest imaginings of books on a shelf as vials of medicine that could treat all manner of ills. This talk will explore some of the earliest literary prescriptions at nineteenth-century asylums\, question what books made the best medicine in the trenches of World War I\, and beyond. Readers who prescribe themselves literary cures will learn they are not alone in the practice\, and are in fact part of a larger story about the contested uses of reading. \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker \nMary Mahoney is a historian who studies the uses of books as medicine\, or bibliotherapy. Earning her Ph.D. in History from UCONN in 2018\, she is currently writing a history of bibliotherapy in the United States from 1800 to the present. She is also the co-host of the American Girls Podcast. \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nImage:  Bedside Library Service\, circa 1918.  American Library Association Archives
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-prescribing-from-the-bookshelf-bibliotherapy-and-the-use-of-books-as-medicine-3/
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,Mental Health Exhibit,online programming
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T130000
DTSTAMP:20220107T143859Z
CREATED:20220107T143859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220107T143859Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Prescribing from the Bookshelf: Bibliotherapy and the use of Books as Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever turned to a book for consolation? Treasured the escape of a novel? Found comfort in a poem\, self-help book\, or simply from reading the newspaper? \nPlease join us for a virtual presentation by Historian Mary Mahoney on bibliotherapy\, or the use of books as medicine. This talk will offer an exploration of the varied ways readers\, doctors\, and librarians have imagined books as medicine in the past. Focusing on case studies from 1800 to the present\, we’ll explore some of the earliest imaginings of books on a shelf as vials of medicine that could treat all manner of ills. This talk will explore some of the earliest literary prescriptions at nineteenth-century asylums\, question what books made the best medicine in the trenches of World War I\, and beyond. Readers who prescribe themselves literary cures will learn they are not alone in the practice\, and are in fact part of a larger story about the contested uses of reading. \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker \nMary Mahoney is a historian who studies the uses of books as medicine\, or bibliotherapy. Earning her Ph.D. in History from UCONN in 2018\, she is currently writing a history of bibliotherapy in the United States from 1800 to the present. She is also the co-host of the American Girls Podcast. \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nImage:  Bedside Library Service\, circa 1918.  American Library Association Archives
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-prescribing-from-the-bookshelf-bibliotherapy-and-the-use-of-books-as-medicine-2/
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,Mental Health Exhibit,online programming
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T130000
DTSTAMP:20211206T172829Z
CREATED:20211206T172829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211206T172829Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn:  Meet Albert Walker from Glastonbury\, the Magician Who Liked Large Noses
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual presentation by Robert Olson for a discussion of the life and magic of Albert Walker.   Walker worked a variety of jobs throughout his lifetime to support himself.  He made cigars\, played the fiddle\, repaired clocks\, made guns\, kept bees\, farmed for his father\, and worked in different factories.  Walker kept details of all of this in his 32 pocket diaries.  Robert Olson spent six months\, reading and transcribing the diaries\, which are housed at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History.  They not only detailed much of his work but also his family life\, and what he did for fun.  He loved performing\, especially as a magician. \nReading the diaries and letters in this amazing collection allowed Olson to get to know Albert Walker\, as a magician\, a family man\, and a highly skilled metal worker.  Walker is gone\, but these diaries are almost like having him whisper in your ear. “Here I am\, please get to know me!” \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker \nRobert Olson is an historian\, with a focus on the performing arts.  He worked at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts for over 25 years as the Director of Crafts and Special Events.  His work in researching magic as a performing art enabled him to recreate the magic of Richard Potter\, the first American to be a successful magician in the early 1800s.  His recreated shows have been performed at historical societies and museums throughout the United States\, including Canada and Great Britain. \nImage: Robert Olson in costume\, as magician Richard Potter. Courtesy of Robert Olson \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-meet-albert-walker-2/
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn:  Meet Albert Walker from Glastonbury\, the Magician Who Liked Large Noses
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual presentation by Robert Olson for a discussion of the life and magic of Albert Walker.   Walker worked a variety of jobs throughout his lifetime to support himself.  He made cigars\, played the fiddle\, repaired clocks\, made guns\, kept bees\, farmed for his father\, and worked in different factories.  Walker kept details of all of this in his 32 pocket diaries.  Robert Olson spent six months\, reading and transcribing the diaries\, which are housed at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History.  They not only detailed much of his work but also his family life\, and what he did for fun.  He loved performing\, especially as a magician. \nReading the diaries and letters in this amazing collection allowed Olson to get to know Albert Walker\, as a magician\, a family man\, and a highly skilled metal worker.  Walker is gone\, but these diaries are almost like having him whisper in your ear. “Here I am\, please get to know me!” \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker \nRobert Olson is an historian\, with a focus on the performing arts.  He worked at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts for over 25 years as the Director of Crafts and Special Events.  His work in researching magic as a performing art enabled him to recreate the magic of Richard Potter\, the first American to be a successful magician in the early 1800s.  His recreated shows have been performed at historical societies and museums throughout the United States\, including Canada and Great Britain. \nImage: Robert Olson in costume\, as magician Richard Potter. Courtesy of Robert Olson \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-meet-albert-walker/
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Accounting for Labor in Colonial Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual presentation by Dr. Caylin Carbonell.  Dr. Carbonell is a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow who conducted research at the CMCH this past summer. \nIn seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Connecticut\, the household was the primary site of the economy. Although we often think of white male household heads as the principal movers and shakers of the colonial economy\, household economies depended equally on the collaborative labor of a mixed group of dependents\, including their wives and children\, as well as indentured\, hired\, and enslaved laborers. However\, since surviving records from the colonial period were primarily authored by white male household heads\, the labor of these other household members often remains hidden from historians. \nUsing these same account books as well as other family papers and records that survive in the collections of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, this presentation will consider how we might use these sources to locate the collaborative and often hidden labor of women\, children\, and both free and unfree household laborers. This talk will offer an overview of the collaborative labor that drove the early New England economy as well as an introduction to strategies that researchers might take to uncover the histories of those individuals often thought to be missing from colonial archives. \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker \nCaylin Carbonell is a historian of early America who focuses on unfreedom and domestic labor in colonial New England. As an NEH fellow with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture\, she is working on her first book manuscript\, which approaches issues of race\, gender\, and power in colonial North America through innovative archival practices that reveal grounded stories of everyday life. Previously\, she received her Ph.D. in History from William & Mary in 2020 and served as the Hench Post-Dissertation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunchandlearn-laborcolonialct-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Lunch and Learn,online programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Accounting for Labor in Colonial Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual presentation by Dr. Caylin Carbonell.  Dr. Carbonell is a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow who conducted research at the CMCH this past summer. \nIn seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Connecticut\, the household was the primary site of the economy. Although we often think of white male household heads as the principal movers and shakers of the colonial economy\, household economies depended equally on the collaborative labor of a mixed group of dependents\, including their wives and children\, as well as indentured\, hired\, and enslaved laborers. However\, since surviving records from the colonial period were primarily authored by white male household heads\, the labor of these other household members often remains hidden from historians. \nUsing these same account books as well as other family papers and records that survive in the collections of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, this presentation will consider how we might use these sources to locate the collaborative and often hidden labor of women\, children\, and both free and unfree household laborers. This talk will offer an overview of the collaborative labor that drove the early New England economy as well as an introduction to strategies that researchers might take to uncover the histories of those individuals often thought to be missing from colonial archives. \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nAbout the Speaker \nCaylin Carbonell is a historian of early America who focuses on unfreedom and domestic labor in colonial New England. As an NEH fellow with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture\, she is working on her first book manuscript\, which approaches issues of race\, gender\, and power in colonial North America through innovative archival practices that reveal grounded stories of everyday life. Previously\, she received her Ph.D. in History from William & Mary in 2020 and served as the Hench Post-Dissertation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunchandlearn-laborcolonialct/
CATEGORIES:Free,Lunch and Learn,online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211030T120000
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SUMMARY:Hartford Then and Now: Richard Welling-Inspired Walking Tour of Downtown Hartford
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URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/hartford-then-and-now-richard-welling-inspired-walking-tour-of-downtown-hartford/
LOCATION:Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, 1 Elizabeth Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family Programs,Programs
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Equine Atlantic: New England’s Horse Trade to the West Indies in the Eighteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual presentation by Dr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer.  Dr. Carrington-Farmer is a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow who has been conducting research at the CMCH this summer. \nFrom the late seventeenth century through to the end of the eighteenth century\, countless New England vessels braved the eighteenth-century Atlantic in a quest for profit by delivering horses to the sugar colonies in the West Indies. In this virtual talk\, Dr. Carrington-Farmer will explore why New England emerged as a breeding ground for horses\, and how it came to dominate the equine trade to the sugar colonies. New England’s horse breeding and trading success were tied to the wider currents of rival empire building through the markets for sugar and slaves.   \nIn 1732\, the anonymous pamphlet\, The British empire in America lamented that the British sugar colonies “will soon be reduc’d to a Condition too wretched to be name\, and an End be put to the British Empire in America.” Others\, ranging from Members of Parliament to merchants\, described how New Englanders undermined the British sugar colonies of Barbados and Jamaica through readily providing the French and Dutch colonies with horses. New England merchants were not concerned with upholding the empire; they simply wanted to make money by shipping horses to wherever they would make the most profit. Building upon the so-called “animal turn in history\,” this presentation will reimagine Atlantic history through centring non-human animal experiences. \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nImage: Horses operating the sugarcane crushing mill: Comble de Moulin\, New York Public Library \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer is an Associate Professor of History at Roger Williams University\, and she specialises in early American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2010. From her dissertation\, she published a biography of Thomas Morton in: Atlantic Lives: Biographies that Cross the Ocean (Leiden and Boson: Brill\, 2014.) Her interest in dissent in seventeenth-century New England also led to her publishing a chapter entitled: ‘Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Liberty\,’ in Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Darryn Jenson eds.\, Law and Religion and the Liberal State (Oxford: Hart Publishing\, 2020.)   \nDr. Carrington-Farmer has a keen interest in equine history in the early modern Atlantic World. Her research examines the breeding and export of horses from New England to West Indies and South America and its intersection with enslaved lives and labour. She has published an article entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of the Narragansett Pacer\,’ Rhode Island History\, Winter/Spring 2018\, Volume 76\, Number 1.  She has also written a chapter entitled: ‘Trading Horses in the Eighteenth Century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic World\,’ in Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld\, eds.\, Equine Cultures: Horses\, Human Society\, and the Discourse of Modernity\, 1700-Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2019)\, which won the ACRL Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award 2019.  \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunchandlearn-horsetrade-2/
CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Equine Atlantic: New England’s Horse Trade to the West Indies in the Eighteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual presentation by Dr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer.  Dr. Carrington-Farmer is a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow who has been conducting research at the CMCH this summer. \nFrom the late seventeenth century through to the end of the eighteenth century\, countless New England vessels braved the eighteenth-century Atlantic in a quest for profit by delivering horses to the sugar colonies in the West Indies. In this virtual talk\, Dr. Carrington-Farmer will explore why New England emerged as a breeding ground for horses\, and how it came to dominate the equine trade to the sugar colonies. New England’s horse breeding and trading success were tied to the wider currents of rival empire building through the markets for sugar and slaves.   \nIn 1732\, the anonymous pamphlet\, The British empire in America lamented that the British sugar colonies “will soon be reduc’d to a Condition too wretched to be name\, and an End be put to the British Empire in America.” Others\, ranging from Members of Parliament to merchants\, described how New Englanders undermined the British sugar colonies of Barbados and Jamaica through readily providing the French and Dutch colonies with horses. New England merchants were not concerned with upholding the empire; they simply wanted to make money by shipping horses to wherever they would make the most profit. Building upon the so-called “animal turn in history\,” this presentation will reimagine Atlantic history through centring non-human animal experiences. \nThis virtual program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nImage: Horses operating the sugarcane crushing mill: Comble de Moulin\, New York Public Library \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer is an Associate Professor of History at Roger Williams University\, and she specialises in early American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2010. From her dissertation\, she published a biography of Thomas Morton in: Atlantic Lives: Biographies that Cross the Ocean (Leiden and Boson: Brill\, 2014.) Her interest in dissent in seventeenth-century New England also led to her publishing a chapter entitled: ‘Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Liberty\,’ in Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Darryn Jenson eds.\, Law and Religion and the Liberal State (Oxford: Hart Publishing\, 2020.)   \nDr. Carrington-Farmer has a keen interest in equine history in the early modern Atlantic World. Her research examines the breeding and export of horses from New England to West Indies and South America and its intersection with enslaved lives and labour. She has published an article entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of the Narragansett Pacer\,’ Rhode Island History\, Winter/Spring 2018\, Volume 76\, Number 1.  She has also written a chapter entitled: ‘Trading Horses in the Eighteenth Century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic World\,’ in Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld\, eds.\, Equine Cultures: Horses\, Human Society\, and the Discourse of Modernity\, 1700-Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2019)\, which won the ACRL Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award 2019.  \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunchandlearn-horsetrade/
CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Good Trouble: Learning From Those Who Fought For Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Hartford’s own\, Steve Thornton\, shares local stories from his recently published book\, Good Trouble: A Shoeleather History of Nonviolent Direct Action.  The book is a “riveting chronicle” of stories that prove time and again the actions of thoughtful\, committed people can change their country and the world. It is a brisk\, inspiring primer for veteran activists and newcomers alike. \nThis program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nImage: Courtesy of Hard Ball Press \nAbout the speaker \nSteve Thornton has spent more than forty-five years in Hartford where he was involved in housing\, anti-racist\, and union organizing. Now he chronicles stories of the city’s working people\, both past and present. He focuses on protest movements including suffrage\, peace\, and environmental campaigns as well as the struggles of immigrant communities. \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-learn-good-trouble-learning-from-those-who-fought-for-justice/
CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Good Trouble: Learning From Those Who Fought For Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Hartford’s own\, Steve Thornton\, shares local stories from his recently published book\, Good Trouble: A Shoeleather History of Nonviolent Direct Action.  The book is a “riveting chronicle” of stories that prove time and again the actions of thoughtful\, committed people can change their country and the world. It is a brisk\, inspiring primer for veteran activists and newcomers alike. \nThis program is free. To secure a spot\, register now. You will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link attached\, and we will send you a reminder on the day of the program. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nImage: Courtesy of Hard Ball Press \nAbout the speaker \nSteve Thornton has spent more than forty-five years in Hartford where he was involved in housing\, anti-racist\, and union organizing. Now he chronicles stories of the city’s working people\, both past and present. He focuses on protest movements including suffrage\, peace\, and environmental campaigns as well as the struggles of immigrant communities. \nIf you would like to make a donation to help the CMCH keep history alive\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here!
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-learn-good-trouble-learning-from-those-who-fought-for-justice-2/
CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Cowboys and Empire: Colonial Cattle Frontiers in New England
DESCRIPTION:We invite CMCH members and visitors to join us for a brown bag lunch talk with Jared Lucky\, PhD Candidate in History at Yale University.  Jared is a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow who has been conducting research here this winter. \nThis comparative talk will explore an overlooked part of New England’s colonial past: the ways in which cattle\, and the cattle herders we might today call “cowboys\,” shaped European empires in America. Though it may seem surprising to search for cowboys in Massachusetts and Connecticut\, recent movements in New England historiography have made this line of inquiry not just possible\, but pressing. \nTransient rural workers—often unfree\, and sometimes of African or partially indigenous descent—played an important role in the booming early colonial cattle business. And yet little is known about these people\, and the ways in which they contributed to social\, economic\, and political life in the colonies.  Focusing on the 17th and early 18th centuries\, Jared is seeking to reexamine rural life in New England using insights gleaned from other cattle frontiers around the Atlantic. \nJared will share the results of his research at the CMCH with us during this informal presentation. \nThis program is free for CMCH members and included with admission for non-members. We will provide coffee and dessert; bring your lunch to enjoy during the talk. Please RSVP by Tuesday\, March 31st by calling (860) 236-5621 x282 or emailing rsvp@chs.org. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nImage: “Cow Series”\, Edwin Augustus Moore\, 1880-1881\, CMCH 2004.52.1-14
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/brown-bag-lunch-cowboys-and-empire-colonial-cattle-frontiers-in-new-england-2/
CATEGORIES:Brown Bag Talk
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SUMMARY:Cowboys and Empire: Colonial Cattle Frontiers in New England
DESCRIPTION:We invite CMCH members and visitors to join us for a brown bag lunch talk with Jared Lucky\, PhD Candidate in History at Yale University.  Jared is a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow who has been conducting research here this winter. \nThis comparative talk will explore an overlooked part of New England’s colonial past: the ways in which cattle\, and the cattle herders we might today call “cowboys\,” shaped European empires in America. Though it may seem surprising to search for cowboys in Massachusetts and Connecticut\, recent movements in New England historiography have made this line of inquiry not just possible\, but pressing. \nTransient rural workers—often unfree\, and sometimes of African or partially indigenous descent—played an important role in the booming early colonial cattle business. And yet little is known about these people\, and the ways in which they contributed to social\, economic\, and political life in the colonies.  Focusing on the 17th and early 18th centuries\, Jared is seeking to reexamine rural life in New England using insights gleaned from other cattle frontiers around the Atlantic. \nJared will share the results of his research at the CMCH with us during this informal presentation. \nThis program is free for CMCH members and included with admission for non-members. We will provide coffee and dessert; bring your lunch to enjoy during the talk. Please RSVP by Tuesday\, March 31st by calling (860) 236-5621 x282 or emailing rsvp@chs.org. \nQuestions? Contact Jennifer Busa\, Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, at jennifer_busa@chs.org. \nImage: “Cow Series”\, Edwin Augustus Moore\, 1880-1881\, CMCH 2004.52.1-14
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/brown-bag-lunch-cowboys-and-empire-colonial-cattle-frontiers-in-new-england/
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SUMMARY:Skinner's Important Jewelry Consignment Day
DESCRIPTION:Skinner’s Fine Jewelry Department is inviting consignments for the upcoming 2020 auction. \nThe CMCH will host Skinner for a complimentary auction evaluation and consignment of your single works or entire collections of American & European Paintings\, Sculpture\, Works on Paper\, Prints & Photographs and Fine Jewelry. \nSpace is limited and appointments are required! \nTo register\, please call 508.970.3000 or email: Marlboroughreception@skinnerinc.com.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/skinners-important-jewelry-consignment-day-3-2/
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