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Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage PAID Hartford, CT Landmark News Permit # 4994 Conneicut Landmarks Newsletter History Moving Forward Volume 22 Number 2 Summer 2018 Amos Bull House landmarks.org 59 South Prospect Street Hartford, CT 06106
Conneicut Landmarks inires intere & encourages learning about the American pa by preserving seleed hioric properties, colleions & ories & presenting programs that meaningfully engage the public & our communies.
L to R: Heather the Hag in the Maze, by Defining Studio; Foggy Realm and Lantern Tour by Rebecca Wilhite. Hallown Happenings at CTL Haunts elebrate fall and get into the “spirit” of the season with an fright and let their inner spook or ghoul shine with Face Painting array of Halloween happenings across the state! Connecticut by Lyss. Then capture the evening’s memories in our new photo CLandmarks’ autumn programs start off with a glow, but will booth. If you dare to face your future, step inside the mystical leave you screaming in the dark. room and have your Tarot cards read. Comfort your nerves and Help Us Keep History cool off your vocal chords with Halloween concessions and Begin your fall with more sparkle than spook on a Lantern Hosmer Mountain Sodas. Make sure to bring a reliable Tour of the grand Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden in flashlight– the Homestead is not responsible for heads lost in the Moving Forward! th Suffield on Sept. 7 , suitable for even our youngest visitors Maze during the “Sleepy Hollow” themed fun and festivities. CTL’s museum properties are starting points for a (who are welcome to don period attire). Costumed guides deeper appreciation of America’s past through transport you to the time before electricity illuminated our Next, you’ll shiver and shudder at the Nathan Hale Homestead homes on this golden-hour tour through the elegant house. at Things That Go Bump in the Night on Oct. 11th, 12th, 18th memorable firsthand educational experiences. Last year, th we worked to make history come alive for over 4,000 Phelps-Hatheway Lantern Tours are a beautiful way for the and 19 . Enjoy a candlelit tour that will take you room-by- whole family to experience history in a new light. room all the way up to the dark and dreary attic. Interpreters children through school field trips, evening & weekend will share the Homestead’s traditional ghost stories and the Hale programs, & summer workshops. On Sept. 29th, travel to New London as the Hempsted Houses staff’s spooky encounters as featured on the Syfy channel’s join expert guides Jean Jordan of the NAACP, Town Historian Ghost Hunters. This tour will include creaks and cold spots and Sally Ryan, and the souls of New Londoners for a Walking Tour is not recommended for young and tender souls. With the help of our generous donors, of Ye Antientist Burial Ground. This highlights tour focuses on our youngest generation will learn the power of the lives of people of African descent who have long been buried Then on Oct. 20th, the souls of New Londoners will manifest place at CTL’s historic properties this year. at the top of Hempstead Street. Attendees are invited to volunteer around the campfire at New London’s oldest house. The Please support the Annual Fund to keep some extra time tidying-up the graves after the tour. Hempsted Houses (c. 1678) have invited all the ghosts to haunt a Hempsted Halloween. Toast s’mores over the fire and listen as history young! For out loud screams, slip into a foggy realm when the Haunted the ghosts tell their ghoulish stories– talk with them if you dare! Hale Annual Corn Maze returns to the Nathan Hale On a twilight tour of the Joshua Hempsted House, you will Homestead– for the 13th year– on Sept. 28th and 29th, and again encounter plenty of history, and maybe a few uninvited ghosts… Visit ctlandmarks.org to make your contribution today. on Oct. 5th and 6th. Brace your soul to enter the maze brimming with ghosts and ghouls, while attempting to escape from the Lastly on Oct. 27th and 28th, daylight dwellers have the Headless Horseman! Younger family members can forego the opportunity to tour the Wethersfield Ancient Burying Ground continued on page 5
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Conneicut Landmarks THANK YOU! Amos Bull House Dear Friends, Interns Continued... 59 South Prospect Street Tiara Desire-Brisard is a senior at Trinity College, double This is shaping up to be quite a summer for Hartford, CT 06106 majoring in Public Policy & Law and English Literature. Astrid & Fred Hanzalek Fund II at HFPG Connecticut Landmarks! 860.247.8996 She has joined the literary society/fraternity Cleo of Alpha The Hartford Courant Media Group The Hartford [email protected] On June 15th, performance artist Tammy Chi and enjoys drawing and music. She loves spending time ctlandmarks.org Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Denease was featured on WNPR's Where with friends and exploring new places. After graduation, she Hartford News We Live hosted by Lucy Nalpathanchil to hopes to continue her education by studying law and Officers Hoffman Auto Group share the story of Joan Jackson and other working in the public sector. Frederick C. Copeland, Jr., Chair Shepherd Monson Holcombe Fund at HFPG "hidden women" in history, as part of Cornelius O'Leary, Vice Chair & Governance Chair Institute of Museum & Library Services James D. Parry, Vice Chair & Finance Chair Where We Live's Juneteenth program. Visit David Johnston is a senior at Chester Kitchings Family Foundation James Anderson, Treasurer ctlandmarks.org/media to listen. Tammy Connecticut College majoring in Kitchings Family Fund at Community Beth Iacampo, Secretary & Personnel Chair Attendees at McGill’s Hempsted Denease and Joseph McGill of the Slave American Studies and English. After graduation, he hopes to Foundation of Eastern Connecticut campfire passed a brick made by an Dwelling Project were featured presenters continue working in museums and pursuing his interests in Trus enslaved person around. Its maker’s La Piastra John Bon fingerprints are child sized. at our Hempsted Juneteenth celebration on American history. He has really enjoyed working on the The Last Green Valley Carla Cabrera June 9th. Palmer-Warner project and learning more about Frederic and Lips, Rousseau Wealth Management David Canton, Ph.D. Howard’s life. Michele Devanney The New London chapter of the NAACP honored the Hempsted Houses with William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Rohan A. Frman an Education Award at their annual Freedom Fund Dinner on June 28th, and NewAlliance Foundation Chelsea Marti is a graduate student Susan Horn special recognition was given to Hempsted Site Administrator & Project New Morning Market in the Public History Program at CCSU. She is a cultural Jay Levin Manager Aileen Novick (see feature article on page 4). Nick's Country Kitchen Duy McMahan historian of the Post-Modern era (1950’s to the present) and Old Bethlehem Historical Society Dial Parro Connecticut Landmarks' properties have offered many successful summer is specifically interested in studying sports history as well as Patrick L. Pinnell, Stewardsh & Colleions Chair Old Hill Gardens programs including the always popular annual Fairy Festival at the Bellamy- historical interpretation in musical theatre. Through her Todd Regan Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation Ferriday House & Garden, the first ever Vintage Base Ball Game at the Nathan Melissa Roy internship at the Palmer-Warner House, she is creating her The Painted Pony Restaurant Hale Homestead, and the Sunset Sounds Concert Series at the Butler-McCook Anthony J. Salerno, Jr. capstone project- a digital exhibit on the life of Frederic and Frank Loomis Palmer Fund Leonardo H. Suzio House & Garden. We look forward to sharing our upcoming fall programs and Howard, the last residents of the House. People's United Insurance Agency Deborah Ullman haunted happenings with you. James Wu Pirie Associates Architects, LLC We are delighted to announce that Martha Hall Kelly, the New York Times Tanya Pearson is a Ph.D. student in Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund Central Office Staff bestselling author of Lilac Girls, will once again be returning to the Bellamy- the history department at University of Massachusetts Prime Sales Auto Dealers LLC Sheryl N. Hack, Executive Direor Ferriday House & Garden for A Polish Christmas on December 1st! Tour the Amherst, pursuing a graduate certificate in public history. She Robinson & Cole, LLP Jana Colacino, Hartford Educator festively decorated house and learn about Lost Roses, the Lilac Girls prequel is founder and director of the Women of Rock Oral History Vernon D. & Florence E. Roosa Family Jamie-Lynn Fontaine Connell, Project, a collection of digital interviews and written Marketing & Development Manager that tells the story of Caroline’s mother Eliza (coming Spring 2019). Tickets go Foundation at HFPG Amanda Cooper, Marketing & Development Assiant on sale in August, so be sure to check the website for more details. transcripts housed at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith SBM Charitable Foundation Erin Malueg, Colleions Manager & Proje Manager, College, and will be publishing an oral history of rock music Society of the Cincinnati in the State of CT I’d like to update you on work that has occurred this year at CTL's properties. Palmer Warner House with the University of Massachusetts Press in 2021. Soroptimists International of Joseph Pukas, Proper Manager We have made great progress at Forge Farm, having installed a new shingle Greater Waterbury Kerri Zongol, Executive Assiant & Office Manager roof on the house, restored the corn crib, redone the 2004 barn, and completed Gabriela Santiago is an intern from the Arts Workforce Suffield Chamber of Commerce a number of cosmetic exterior house repairs. Special thanks to our outstanding Initiative and is excited to be working at the Amos Bull Suffield Garden Club Museum Staff contractor Mike Einsiedel (see feature story on page 3) and Trustee Jim George McCleary, Program Planner & Se Horticulturi, House with our Hartford Educator for the summer. She is Taylor Rental of Torrington Anderson. Significant repairs have also been completed at the Bellamy- Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden entering her senior year at University of Hartford as a Town of Coventry Ferriday House & Garden including repairing and painting sections of the Peg Shimer, Se Adminirator, Cinema major. When she's not in class, she enjoys baking Travelers house and barn siding and trim, repairing fencing, and installing a new air Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden for her family and friends and hanging out with her dog. True Value of Bethlehem Ailn Novick, Se Adminirator & Proje Manager, movement system. Long awaited repairs to the Butler-McCook Greenhouse, The United Illuminating Company Hemped Houses installation of new side fencing and a new Main Street entrance to the Butler- Anne Marie Charland, Se Adminirator, Kent Shi is a junior at Trinity Veterans of Foreign Wars McCook Garden, and restoration of the Palmer-Warner Barn will commence Nathan Hale Homeead College, majoring in Public Policy Patricia and Charles Walker Family Fund later this season. Marilyn Yarrington, Events Coordinator, and Hispanic Studies. He enjoys at HFPG Nathan Hale Homeead Looking forward to seeing you this fall. traveling, going to movies, reading a good book, spending Webster Bank Lynn Mervosh, Se Adminirator, West Hartford Garden Club Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden time with friends and nice long walks on the beach. He With best regards, enjoyed working at the Butler-McCook House as it is a Whittlesey Accounting Resources, Inc., Consulting Bookkpers wonderful testament to Hartford history and a beacon of both Willimantic Waste Paper Co., Inc. Love & Pop Designs, Graphic Design progress and remembrance at the same time. Windsor Federal Savings Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation Inc. Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at HFPG Sheryl Hack, Executive Director Page 2 Page 11
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L: Einsiedel, with a THANK YOU! Welcome to the CTL Family! broad ax, at the We are grateful for the support of Nathan Hale Barns our members, donors, community Opening. Photo by Defining Studio. partners, funders and sponsors. New Trustees & Staff R:Einsiedel has used Without you, preserving, presenting the same tools for and promoting the very best of Michele Devanney is a full-time Realtor in over 20 years, some of Connecticut history would them saved from not be possible. Connecticut for ERA Sargis-Breen. She comes to CT barns. He believes in Landmarks with an appreciation of Connecticut repairing things rather than disposing Anonymous history and the beautiful homes- each preserved to tell of them. Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at HFPG their own story. Raised in NH, an alumna of Siena Bank of America College, and now a 14 year resident of Newington, Bethlehem Christmas Town Festival Michele and her husband Jeff are busy raising three Bethlehem Land Trust active children. As a member of the Board and the M. Bird Family Stewardship & Collections Committee, she hopes to Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation remind her children that history and those who came before us matter greatly. Budd Family Fund at HFPG Preservation Carpentry with Mike Einsiedel Cafémantic Leonardo H. Suzio is an entrepreneur, President of the ike Einsiedel is a self-employed carpenter and At Howell Cheney Technical High School he learned J. Gladwin Cannon Trust York Hill Trap Rock Quarry C. Inc. and the Corporate owner of Yankee Restoration & Remodeling LLC carpentry and drafting. Afterwards, he worked for another Capital Community College Secretary of The L. Suzio Companies Inc. Len serves on specializing in post beam construction, and self-employed carpenter. He says he was never very good Arnold E. and Mary I. Carlson Fund at HFPG the Board of Trustees for Goodspeed Musicals in East M restoration work. He is an outstanding craftsman whose at traditional school work so once he got hooked on timber Chelsea Groton Foundation, Inc. Haddam and the Shubert CAPA Theater in New Haven. photo albums detail years of gorgeous projects, all framing he learned by doing. “If I was driving down the City of Hartford He puts his many years of construction expertise to good painstakingly done by hand. street and saw a dilapidated barn I’d pull in and ask the City of New London use by volunteering with and serving on the board of owner about it. Some just wanted me off their property, Mrs. James Sage Coburn Fund at HFPG Habitat for Humanity of Great New Haven. Len’s love of CT Department of Economic & Community historic homes is seen in his beautifully restored c. 1830 Einsiedel has worked on several of CTL’s restoration and some would let me take them down for free.” Development Oysterman house and the connected Italianate house. preservation projects including the Hale Barns restoration Connecticut Explored which was completed in June 2017, and the exterior “You have got to love what you’re doing because it’s hard, CT Forest & Park Association Deborah Ullman retired in 2017 as CEO of YWCA restoration of CTL’s Forge Farm house, corn crib, and barn dangerous work and unless you get lucky there’s not a lot CT Historic Gardens Hartford Region after 14 years. Prior to YWCA, she in Stonington, completed in July 2018. He begins the of money in it.” Young and broke, Einsiedel and his wife, CT Humanities spent most of her career at Aetna in a variety of roles. process by examining every inch of the building. He takes Stephanie, decided to build their own stunning log cabin. CT Natural Gas (CNG) She also had senior roles at American Skandia and photos and draws diagrams of how everything was fit “We cut 400+ trees and dragged them back to the site. That CT Santa Society Phoenix. While in the financial services industry, she together by the original builders. Every part of the building first winter we scraped all the bark off. Then I hand hewed CT State Historic Preservation Office held several professional designations, including is labeled and those letters and numbers are transferred to all of the timbers. The cabinets, the doors, all were made CT Trust for Historic Preservation Associate in the Casualty Actuarial Society. She drawings, creating a map for reassembly. “There are not from the trees from the site – all the old fashioned way on Coventry Farmers' Market at Hale Homestead currently serves as the President of the Board of many nails in these buildings, only a few and usually only nights and weekends.” Coventry Mansfield American Legion Trustees of the YWCA Retirement Fund and on the in the siding.” Einsiedel practices traditional New England Cummings & Good Graphic Design boards of CT Women’s Hall of Fame, CT Landmarks and The Children’s joinery techniques and pounds in 1-inch diameter oak pegs When asked if he has a favorite project, he said it was a toss- Anthony & Elizabeth Enders Fund of the Museum. She is an accomplished knitter and lives with her husband and son with the “whomper”. Einsiedel sources reclaimed materials up. Each of Einsiedel’s projects have special meaning. He Community Foundation of Southeastern CT in Litchfield. and gets timbers cut at a sawmill. can remember riding his Belgian draft horse from his Ensworth Charitable Foundation property through the Nathan Hale State Forest to the fields The Federal Restaurant Peg Shimer joined the Bellamy-Ferriday House & “If the original timbers wouldn’t have been milled, I around the Nathan Hale Homestead and looking at the barns. Ferriday Fund at BNY Mellon Garden as a Museum Interpreter and was recently hit up the surface with my tools to give them the look First National Bank of Suffield promoted to Site Administrator! She loves history and of the period. I can hand hew timbers, use a vertical “I felt privileged to get to work on that project. A lot Stanley D. & Hinda N. Fisher Fund at HFPG a good story. Peg held several VP-level marketing roles mounted saw or a circular saw, which had become the of people do it for the money. I do it because it... Friends of Suffield at corporations like Acxiom, NBCi and Webster usual in mills by the 1860s.” makes me feel good because it’s saving a little piece of The Fund for Greater Hartford Financial. “As marketer you are always telling stories, history and it preserves a little piece of me in it. Fuss & O'Neill helping people visualize; that is what we do every day Ideally, Einsiedel builds using trees from the site. Maybe 200 years from now someone else will be Richard P. Garmany Fund at HFPG at the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden. The novel “Historically, the people building these barns were doing working on one of these and see that piece of me in Marion & Ellsworth Grant Fund at HFPG Lilac Girls has exposed new people to the Bellamy- very hard work so they would have used what was growing William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund how I’ve done the work.” Ferriday House and CT Landmarks, giving us an nearby, dragging it with oxen or horses to the site. They Greater Hartford Arts Council opportunity to share more of the story and expand their interests; and would have used white pine, hemlock, red oak, white Griebel Family Fund at HFPG Mike will begin work on restoring CTL’s Palmer-Warner hopefully engage them in a meaningful dialogue.” Peg’s interests include oak…” He adds, “Some of the woods have just plain died- Nathan Hale Fife & Drum Corps Barns in East Haddam this year. gardening, traveling, and spending time with her husband Rob, their daughter, out. There are no more Chestnuts.” and dogs Macy and Molly. Page 10 Page 3
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NAACP Honors the Hempsted Houses n June 28th, the New London chapter of the NAACP honored several individuals with Lifetime Achievement Awards, and several Summer O organizations with special awards in a number of categories, at their annual Freedom Fund Dinner. The Hempsted Houses is proud to have received the Education Award from the New London NAACP for our work sharing the Fun African American history of our site and of New London. Special recognition was given to our Hempsted Site Administrator and Project Manager Aileen at CTL! Novick, who has worked with many teachers, schools, and community members to create new education programs and offerings like the 8th grade activism program, our camp and youth group programs, and continued work on Juneteenth and other special events.
“It takes many committed staff and community members to create change, and we thank all of our dedicated Hempsted staff, our community partners – especially Jean Jordan of the NAACP, and our Juneteenth partners at the Opportunities & Industrialization Center (OIC),” states Novick.
Hempsted education programs are transformational for our young visitors and
Photos by La Chale Gillis of Coveringz Corp offer classroom resources for area educators. Curriculum packets provide local primary sources to teachers and activists within their own communities. projects in the community without our information on colonial life: the lives of Expert guest speakers, performers and generous funders: the Bodenwein Top: On June 30th, Vintage Base Ball teams made history by the white settlers, the enslaved Africans, stories of activism throughout history Public Benevolent Foundation, Bank of playing the first game at the Nathan Hale Homestead in over a the children of the Hempsted family, and challenge students to consider how they America, N.A., Trustee; the Kitchings century. Above: Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden’s annual Fairy the community. Field trips speak to the can make their voices heard. We will Family Fund; the Frank Loomis Fest inspires children to create and imagine. Suffield Garden importance of place, allowing students continue to work with students in the Palmer Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Club Members, First Selectman Melissa Mack and supporters the time and space to think about the Language/Culture & Leadership Trustee; the William Casper Graustein of the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden enjoyed Cocktails in different people who lived in the oldest Program at Bennie Dover Jackson, the Memorial Fund; Connecticut the Hatheway Garden. The lawn between the Butler-McCook extant house in New London. neighborhood middle school. Humanities; and the Institute of House & Garden and the Amos Bull House’s Richard P. The Graustein funded 8th grade Museum and Library Services. Garmany Fund Music & Education Terrace overflowed at the program inspires young people to be The Hempsted Houses could not Sunset Sounds Concert Series. Le: Historically accurate accomplish the many critical education uniforms and equipment were used in a Hale of a double header. A dance performance by the Lion’s Den Dance Company at Juneteenth. The Chris Marolda Duo rocked the Phelps- Hatheway fundraiser. Below: Children build fairy houses in Of Interest Bellamy-Ferriday’s enchanted fairy forest. At his return to Revolution Song: A Story of The Witch of Blackbird Pond Hartford, Base player Dezron Douglas attracted 200 concert American Freedom (W. W. Norton & (Houghton Mifflin, 1958) by goers including his grandmother. Hempsted Youth had a Company, 2017) by Russell Shorto is Elizabeth George Speare is great phenomenal weekend learning with Tammy Denease as Joan a historical nonfiction narrative of 6 summer reading for children ages 8- Jackson, and Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project at New drastically different, but connected, 14! Orphaned Kit Tyler leaves her London’s Juneteenth. Thank you to all who contributed to the lives during the American War for home in Barbados to travel to a strict success of CTL’s Summer 2018! Independence. Shorto’s work relates Puritan community in colonial the individuals’ efforts for freedom: Connecticut in 1687. She befriends the well-known George Washington; the old Quaker woman known as the Mary Coghlan, the daughter of a witch of Blackbird Pond until their British officer who forced her to friendship is discovered and Kit is marry at 15; Seneca Chief accused of witchcraft herself! The Cornplanter; British aristocrat George Germain; Abraham Yates, author states that the house where Kit resides is inspired by the a populist lawyer; and Venture Smith, who was sold into slavery CTL’s Buttolph-Williams house in Old Wethersfield. Come tour as a child. Through these astonishing lives, Shorto unfolds the the House, operated by the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, from meaning of freedom beyond that glossy version associated with now through October (see calendar section for more the Revolution. Available from smile.amazon.com for Kindle, as information). The Witch of Blackbird Pond can be purchased at an audio book, and in print; please support Connecticut smile.amazon.com, or borrowed at your local library. Landmarks with your amazon smile purchase. Page 4 P a g e 9
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Tarot card reading & photo booth. Last tour leaves at 9 pm… don’t get left behind! Concessions available. Maze not recommended for children under 8. For Corn Maze only: $10 per person/ $30 family price for 2 adults & 2 children.
Thur. & Fri., Oct. 11 & 12, 7 pm Thur. & Fri., Oct. 18 & 19, 7 pm Things That Go Bump In the Night A candlelit tour all the way up to the dark & dreary attic. Hear the traditional Nathan Hale Homestead Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Homestead ghost stories & the Hale staff’s 2299 South Street 55 South Main Street spooky encounters, as featured on the Syfy Coventry, CT 06238 6 Suffield, CT 06078 8 channel’s Ghost Hunters. $25/$20 CTL 860.742.6917 860.668.0055 Members, includes refreshments. [email protected] [email protected] Reservations required at 860.742.6917 or [email protected]. Open for tours: May through Oct. Open for tours: May through Oct. June – Sept.: Thur. – Sat., 12 – 4 pm; Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm Sun., 11 am – 4 pm Oct.: Sat., 12 – 4 pm; Sun., 11 – 4 pm Tours start on the hour. Sat., Aug. 4 & Sept. 1, 1:30 – 3 pm New Lecture Series at Phelps-Hatheway st Open Labor Day & Columbus Day. 1 Saturday Attic Tours th The Hale Homestead grounds are open Venture beyond the stanchions with he Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden hosts On the third Sunday, August 17 , What we Grew is an year round from dawn to dusk. museum interpreters for a rare, behind- Sundays on the Porch, a NEW lecture series exploration of gardening by Ann Foley of Connecticut’s the-scenes look of the Phelps’ servant & featuring guest experts presenting on the behind-the- Historic Gardens. Foley will address the need to carry attic spaces. View objects & collections T scenes care and collection contemplation that goes into a the torch of garden stewardship and the challenges of the th th Sun., June 3 – Oct. 28, 11 am – 2 pm from the 18 to the early 20 century. historic house museum. At 2 pm each Sunday in dwindling interest in historic garden preservation. Coventry Farmers’ Market Regular admission applies. Join us for the 15th season of the Coventry August, join us on the porch for light Learn about the formation and evolution of Palmer-Warner House Farmers’ Market! Free admission to the 1st Sun., Aug. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2 pm refreshments and deep conversation, then Connecticut’s Historic Gardens and talk 307 Town Street floor of the House & family-friendly 7 Sundays on the Porch stay for a topic-focused tour of the house about how museums like Webb-Deane- East Haddam, CT 06423 history activities. For more information & A NEW lecture series on behind-the- 860.247.8996 or garden. Stevens and Phelps-Hatheway keep their to sign up for the weekly newsletter, visit scenes keeping of a historic house [email protected] gardens looking attractive. www.coventryfarmersmarket.org. museum. See pg. 5 for details. Registration th recommended at 860.668.0055 or The series kicks-off on August 5 with Open for tours May – Nov.: What to Keep, a presentation by Lastly on August 26th, join Peggy Sat., Sept. 22, 11 am – 12:30 pm st st rd [email protected]. Walktober: Hale Homestead’s 1 Sat., 11 am – 4 pm; 1 & 3 Sponsored by the Friends of Suffield. Archivist Heidi Abbey Moyer of Penn Wishart, Collections Manager at Old 18th-Century Farm Landscape Tour Tues., 10 am – 2 pm $12 per person; $20 series pass for CTL For groups of 8 or less only; $35 per State on maintaining archival collections York Historical Society, for a finale about Stroll into history as you are guided Members. with details from her experience organizing the most talked about part of the house- the through the Hale Family Farm. Journey person/ $25 for CTL members. into the Nathan Hale State Forest on the Please reserve your tour at least 7 days Fri., Sept. 7, 7 – 8:30 pm and cataloging Penn State’s history. Moyer will walls! Wishart will present What Walls!: historic “road to Norwich,” an 18th-century dirt road in advance by contacting 860.247.8996 Lantern Tours discuss general priorities and challenges in historic wallpapers and how they have survived at the Phelps- that the Hale Family used to drive livestock x 10, or [email protected]. Be transported to the time before preservation, and offer guidelines for individuals Hatheway house for more than 200 years. She will relate to market. Free; heavy rain cancels. All tour proceeds benefit the Palmer- electricity illuminated our homes. Join our Warner Visitor Welcome, Program & considering items to purge or keep in their own lives. the arduous process of manufacturing wallpaper in the costumed guides on a twilight tour with th Sun., Sept. 30, 1 – 2:30 pm Exhibit Center Project. 18 century and the unsung heroes that created these lanterns through the dim corners of the th Walktober: I Spy a Letterbox – house. Includes light refreshments. On Sunday, August 12 , join Phelps-Hatheway Museum masterpieces. She will, like all the speakers, plant the Children’s Walk Regular admission applies. Interpreters for What we Have – exploring ways to connect seed for future preservation. Letterboxing is a treasure-hunt style with the collection. Site staff have chosen objects in the activity where hidden caches are found collection that lead to a larger story. Learn how staff use For more information, please visit our calendar section, using clues. This exploration through the Nathan Hale State Forest is guided by a Thank You to Our New Members! dialogue methods from the International Coalition of Sites follow the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden on letterboxing expert & will last about 1.5 Tracy Ajello, Brenda Barnes, Kathleen & Frederick Barrett, Fran Barringer, of Conscience to involve guests in the process of exploring Facebook, and visit www.ctlandmarks.org. hours. Letterboxing kits available for $5. Jason Blackwell, Carolyn & Lionel Carbonneau, Jennifer Carrier, Charles Cino, and learning from history. Get the wheels turning and get Free; heavy rain cancels. Mervyn E. Clay, Paul & Bonny Cohen, Gregory Davis, Christiana Dikun, excited about the role of museums in our modern world! Lorraine M. Dodd, Nancy Eisenlohr, Anne Frost, Michael Guay, Kyle Higgins, Fri. & Sat., Sept. 28 & 29, 7 – 9 pm continued from page 1 Fri. & Sat., Oct. 5 & 6, 7 – 9 pm Margaret Hunt, Joan Jakiela, Robert Francis Jones, Linda & Dwight Juliani, JP & Rita Karsted, Phyllis Katz, Mary Kirlin, Karin Maandi, Divya Mathieu, Kent Rain Date: Oct. 7 with the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum’s witchcraft in Connecticut– 16 of which For more information about our fall May, Sheila McBride & Eric Lordi, Mary Nason, Mark Okun, Robin & Richard Haunted Hale Annual Corn Maze Witches & Tombstones Tours. Hear ended in execution. Get to know the events and regular operating hours for Pearson, Sandy Perlman, Jessica Petvo, Susan & Ed Shaw, David Silver, Lynn Dare to enter a maze brimming with tales of witchcraft, including notable “residents” of Wethersfield, learn our favorite haunts, check out the ghosts, ghouls & the headless horseman! Strawson, Gail Tine, Sandra Trudeau, Mary Beth Van Dine, Lorri Vilorio, Wethersfield’s Mary Johnson who in about 1800s funeral practices, and stop calendar section, follow us on Facebook, The fun continues with face painting, Ginny & Bob Vocelli, Andrews Wainacht, Marcy Ward. 1648 was the first of 43 cases of by CTL’s Buttolph-Williams House. and visit www.ctlandmarks.org.
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Sun., Sept. 16, 2 pm Connecticut Landmarks’ historic museums are New London’s Unpopular Abolitionists open for regular tours from May through October. The Joshua Hempsted House tells powerful stories of slavery, resistance, freedom & Let’s Admission is $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, courage. Learn about the Hempstead students & teachers; $5 for town residents & sisters who were abolitionists & artists. 2018 children ages 6 -18; free for children younger than Discover how these women found comfort & inspiration from other women at a time 6 & CTL Members. A special family price of $25 when their ideas were quite unpopular. is available for families with two adults & any Suggested donation of $5 per person. number of children. To register for programs, or for Sat., Sept. 29, 2 – 3:30 pm more information, please contact the museum Buttolph-Williams House Hempsted Houses Walking Tour: Ye Antientist Burial Go! directly or visit www.ctlandmarks.org. Ground – The African American Calendar of events 249 Broad Street 11 Hempstead Street Wethersfield, CT 06109 3 New London, CT 06320 4 Connection 860.529.0612 860.443.7949 A special focus on those of African descent [email protected] [email protected] who are buried in one of New England’s earliest graveyards. Meet your guides Sally per wreath includes materials & admission Thur., Aug. 9 & Sept. 13, 6 – 7:30 pm Open for tours: May through Oct. Open for tours: May through Oct. Ryan, & Jean Jordan of the New London to the house. $25 for CTL Members. Bring Sunset Sounds Garden Concert Series Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. & Sat., 10 am – 4 pm; Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm NAACP at the burying ground at the top of your own clippers. Space is limited. Bring a picnic & seating to enjoy music in Sun., 1 – 4 pm; last tour begins at 3:30 pm Tours during regular hours of operation Hempstead Street. Attendees are invited to Registration required at 203.266.7596 or the Butler-McCook historic garden at the Purchase tickets at the Webb House. are free for New London residents! volunteer with the CT Historic Cemetery [email protected]. Amos Bull House. Enjoy a featured to tidy the cemetery after the tour. $10 per artist’s exhibit each month! Free tours of person. Registration recommended at th Sat., Sept. 15, 1 – 4 pm the first floor from 5:30 – 6 pm. Aug. 9 : Sat. & Sun., Oct. 27 & 28, 10 am – 4 pm Sat., Aug. 11, 1 – 4 pm 860.443.7949 or [email protected]. Rain date: Sept. 16 The Hartford Steel Symphony & paintings Witches & Tombstones Tours Pirates & the Sea Day th Butterfly Tagging by Edith Skiba LaMonica. Sept. 13 : In 1648, Wethersfield’s Mary Johnson A playful day of maritime entertainment Sat., Oct. 20, 4 – 7 pm Marvel at the magnificent monarchs & Among the Acres & photography by John confessed to witchcraft, the first of 43 with music & stories about old ships & Hempsted Halloween their migration patterns. Feed them in our Hsu. Sponsored by: the Hartford Courant cases in Connecticut, with 16 ending in sailors of long ago. Learn basic knots, Encounter the ghosts of New Londoners Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden huge butterfly tent. See how we tag them Media Group; the Richard P. Garmany execution. Hear tales of Wethersfield make a toy boat & participate in a pirate with their ghoulish stories & talk with 9 Main Street North to research their journey. $12 adults, $7 Fund at Hartford Foundation for Public witchcraft, 1800s funeral practices, & scavenger hunt! Free; sponsored by the them if you dare! Experience the city's Bethlehem, CT 06751 1 children 3-12 (2 & under free). Giving; the Greater Hartford Arts notable “residents” of the Wethersfield Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. oldest house at twilight & make s’mores 203.266.7596 Council’s United Arts Campaign with Ancient Burying Ground during the 90- over an open fire. Free; sponsored by the [email protected] major support from the Hartford minute tours. Ages 11 & up. Last tour at Sat., Aug. 25, 1 pm Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. Herbs of Yesterday & Today Open for tours: May through Oct. Foundation for Public Giving & the 3:15. $15 per person. Reservations Explore the history of herbs in America May – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, recommended at 860.529.0612. More through the Hempsted House herb garden Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm Bank of America, N.A., Trustee. details: www.webb-deane-stevens.org. & gain insight into their timeless uses with Open Labor Day & Columbus Day. a demonstration. $10 per person. Tours start hourly, beginning at 12:30 pm. Sat., Aug. 11, 12 – 4 pm Japan Day at Butler-McCook Celebrate Japanese culture in Sun., Aug. 5, 2 – 4 pm collaboration with the Japan Society of Herbs in the Garden Greater Hartford. Admire summer yukata Take a guided walking tour of the Ferriday fashions. Experience Japanese music & Become a CTL Member! Gardens with our Site Horticulturist. Ask Butler-McCook House & Garden dance demonstrations. Sample Japanese gardening advice & learn how to cultivate, 396 Main Street tea & simple foods & admire the Japanese 8 Hartford, CT 06103 2 artifacts in the Butler-McCook collections. Isham-Terry House preserve & use herbs for cuisine & décor. 211 High Street Rain or shine. $12 per person; CTL 860.522.1806 Free; donations welcome for historic 5 [email protected] house tour. 5 Hartford, CT 06103 Members free. 860.247.8996 2 Open for tours: May through Dec. [email protected] Sat., Aug. 18, 4 – 7 pm Thur., Oct. 11, Nov. 8 & Dec. 13, 6 May – Sept.: Fri. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Community Picnic 5:30 – 7:30 pm 3 Oct. – Dec.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm 1 Open for tours May – Oct.: 1st Sat., Pack your dinner & a seat for a community Cultural Cocktail Hour Tours during regular hours of operation nd 9:30 – 11 am, & 3rd Thur., 10 am – 3 pm picnic! Savor hamburgers & hot dogs for sale Join us on the 2 Thursday of the month are free for Hartford residents! Please reserve your tour at least 7 days by the Bethlehem Lions Club. Stroll through Oct. – Dec., for art exhibitions by local The Butler-McCook Garden & lawn are 7 in advance by contacting 860.247.8996 x the gardens, participate in children's games & artists & live music. Free with a suggested open year round from dawn to dusk. 10, or [email protected]. enjoy live music. Free for Bethlehem and $5 food & beverage donation. 4 area residents; donations welcomed. Registration recommended at 203.266.7596 Sun., Sept. 30, 2 pm or [email protected]. CTL Family Discount Passes for half priced tour Your ticket to Travel Terry Clock Lecture admission during regular operating hours can now be borrowed from libraries Clock Curator Tom Manning of the Sun., Aug. 19, 2 – 4 pm near our sites! Check out your local library’s museum pass offerings and if your rough Four Centuries American Clock & Watch Museum joins Make an Herbal Wreath library is not on our list, please ask them to add us! We partner with employers us for an in-depth discussion on Eli Terry Fashion an herbal wreath with George & of Conneicut Hiory. too; for more information email [email protected]. and his clocks. Regular admission. Carol McCleary, Site Horticulturists. $30 Page 6 Page 7
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Sun., Sept. 16, 2 pm Connecticut Landmarks’ historic museums are New London’s Unpopular Abolitionists open for regular tours from May through October. The Joshua Hempsted House tells powerful stories of slavery, resistance, freedom & Let’s Admission is $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, courage. Learn about the Hempstead students & teachers; $5 for town residents & sisters who were abolitionists & artists. 2018 children ages 6 -18; free for children younger than Discover how these women found comfort & inspiration from other women at a time 6 & CTL Members. A special family price of $25 when their ideas were quite unpopular. is available for families with two adults & any Suggested donation of $5 per person. number of children. To register for programs, or for Sat., Sept. 29, 2 – 3:30 pm more information, please contact the museum Buttolph-Williams House Hempsted Houses Walking Tour: Ye Antientist Burial Go! directly or visit www.ctlandmarks.org. Ground – The African American Calendar of events 249 Broad Street 11 Hempstead Street Wethersfield, CT 06109 3 New London, CT 06320 4 Connection 860.529.0612 860.443.7949 A special focus on those of African descent [email protected] [email protected] who are buried in one of New England’s earliest graveyards. Meet your guides Sally per wreath includes materials & admission Thur., Aug. 9 & Sept. 13, 6 – 7:30 pm Open for tours: May through Oct. Open for tours: May through Oct. Ryan, & Jean Jordan of the New London to the house. $25 for CTL Members. Bring Sunset Sounds Garden Concert Series Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. & Sat., 10 am – 4 pm; Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm NAACP at the burying ground at the top of your own clippers. Space is limited. Bring a picnic & seating to enjoy music in Sun., 1 – 4 pm; last tour begins at 3:30 pm Tours during regular hours of operation Hempstead Street. Attendees are invited to Registration required at 203.266.7596 or the Butler-McCook historic garden at the Purchase tickets at the Webb House. are free for New London residents! volunteer with the CT Historic Cemetery [email protected]. Amos Bull House. Enjoy a featured to tidy the cemetery after the tour. $10 per artist’s exhibit each month! Free tours of person. Registration recommended at th Sat., Sept. 15, 1 – 4 pm the first floor from 5:30 – 6 pm. Aug. 9 : Sat. & Sun., Oct. 27 & 28, 10 am – 4 pm Sat., Aug. 11, 1 – 4 pm 860.443.7949 or [email protected]. Rain date: Sept. 16 The Hartford Steel Symphony & paintings Witches & Tombstones Tours Pirates & the Sea Day th Butterfly Tagging by Edith Skiba LaMonica. Sept. 13 : In 1648, Wethersfield’s Mary Johnson A playful day of maritime entertainment Sat., Oct. 20, 4 – 7 pm Marvel at the magnificent monarchs & Among the Acres & photography by John confessed to witchcraft, the first of 43 with music & stories about old ships & Hempsted Halloween their migration patterns. Feed them in our Hsu. Sponsored by: the Hartford Courant cases in Connecticut, with 16 ending in sailors of long ago. Learn basic knots, Encounter the ghosts of New Londoners Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden huge butterfly tent. See how we tag them Media Group; the Richard P. Garmany execution. Hear tales of Wethersfield make a toy boat & participate in a pirate with their ghoulish stories & talk with 9 Main Street North to research their journey. $12 adults, $7 Fund at Hartford Foundation for Public witchcraft, 1800s funeral practices, & scavenger hunt! Free; sponsored by the them if you dare! Experience the city's Bethlehem, CT 06751 1 children 3-12 (2 & under free). Giving; the Greater Hartford Arts notable “residents” of the Wethersfield Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. oldest house at twilight & make s’mores 203.266.7596 Council’s United Arts Campaign with Ancient Burying Ground during the 90- over an open fire. Free; sponsored by the [email protected] major support from the Hartford minute tours. Ages 11 & up. Last tour at Sat., Aug. 25, 1 pm Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. Herbs of Yesterday & Today Open for tours: May through Oct. Foundation for Public Giving & the 3:15. $15 per person. Reservations Explore the history of herbs in America May – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, recommended at 860.529.0612. More through the Hempsted House herb garden Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm Bank of America, N.A., Trustee. details: www.webb-deane-stevens.org. & gain insight into their timeless uses with Open Labor Day & Columbus Day. a demonstration. $10 per person. Tours start hourly, beginning at 12:30 pm. Sat., Aug. 11, 12 – 4 pm Japan Day at Butler-McCook Celebrate Japanese culture in Sun., Aug. 5, 2 – 4 pm collaboration with the Japan Society of Herbs in the Garden Greater Hartford. Admire summer yukata Take a guided walking tour of the Ferriday fashions. Experience Japanese music & Become a CTL Member! Gardens with our Site Horticulturist. Ask Butler-McCook House & Garden dance demonstrations. Sample Japanese gardening advice & learn how to cultivate, 396 Main Street tea & simple foods & admire the Japanese 8 Hartford, CT 06103 2 artifacts in the Butler-McCook collections. Isham-Terry House preserve & use herbs for cuisine & décor. 211 High Street Rain or shine. $12 per person; CTL 860.522.1806 Free; donations welcome for historic 5 [email protected] house tour. 5 Hartford, CT 06103 Members free. 860.247.8996 2 Open for tours: May through Dec. [email protected] Sat., Aug. 18, 4 – 7 pm Thur., Oct. 11, Nov. 8 & Dec. 13, 6 May – Sept.: Fri. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Community Picnic 5:30 – 7:30 pm 3 Oct. – Dec.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm 1 Open for tours May – Oct.: 1st Sat., Pack your dinner & a seat for a community Cultural Cocktail Hour Tours during regular hours of operation nd 9:30 – 11 am, & 3rd Thur., 10 am – 3 pm picnic! Savor hamburgers & hot dogs for sale Join us on the 2 Thursday of the month are free for Hartford residents! Please reserve your tour at least 7 days by the Bethlehem Lions Club. Stroll through Oct. – Dec., for art exhibitions by local The Butler-McCook Garden & lawn are 7 in advance by contacting 860.247.8996 x the gardens, participate in children's games & artists & live music. Free with a suggested open year round from dawn to dusk. 10, or [email protected]. enjoy live music. Free for Bethlehem and $5 food & beverage donation. 4 area residents; donations welcomed. Registration recommended at 203.266.7596 Sun., Sept. 30, 2 pm or [email protected]. CTL Family Discount Passes for half priced tour Your ticket to Travel Terry Clock Lecture admission during regular operating hours can now be borrowed from libraries Clock Curator Tom Manning of the Sun., Aug. 19, 2 – 4 pm near our sites! Check out your local library’s museum pass offerings and if your rough Four Centuries American Clock & Watch Museum joins Make an Herbal Wreath library is not on our list, please ask them to add us! We partner with employers us for an in-depth discussion on Eli Terry Fashion an herbal wreath with George & of Conneicut Hiory. too; for more information email [email protected]. and his clocks. Regular admission. Carol McCleary, Site Horticulturists. $30 Page 6 Page 7
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Tarot card reading & photo booth. Last tour leaves at 9 pm… don’t get left behind! Concessions available. Maze not recommended for children under 8. For Corn Maze only: $10 per person/ $30 family price for 2 adults & 2 children.
Thur. & Fri., Oct. 11 & 12, 7 pm Thur. & Fri., Oct. 18 & 19, 7 pm Things That Go Bump In the Night A candlelit tour all the way up to the dark & dreary attic. Hear the traditional Nathan Hale Homestead Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Homestead ghost stories & the Hale staff’s 2299 South Street 55 South Main Street spooky encounters, as featured on the Syfy Coventry, CT 06238 6 Suffield, CT 06078 8 channel’s Ghost Hunters. $25/$20 CTL 860.742.6917 860.668.0055 Members, includes refreshments. [email protected] [email protected] Reservations required at 860.742.6917 or [email protected]. Open for tours: May through Oct. Open for tours: May through Oct. June – Sept.: Thur. – Sat., 12 – 4 pm; Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm Sun., 11 am – 4 pm Oct.: Sat., 12 – 4 pm; Sun., 11 – 4 pm Tours start on the hour. Sat., Aug. 4 & Sept. 1, 1:30 – 3 pm New Lecture Series at Phelps-Hatheway st Open Labor Day & Columbus Day. 1 Saturday Attic Tours th The Hale Homestead grounds are open Venture beyond the stanchions with he Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden hosts On the third Sunday, August 17 , What we Grew is an year round from dawn to dusk. museum interpreters for a rare, behind- Sundays on the Porch, a NEW lecture series exploration of gardening by Ann Foley of Connecticut’s the-scenes look of the Phelps’ servant & featuring guest experts presenting on the behind-the- Historic Gardens. Foley will address the need to carry attic spaces. View objects & collections T scenes care and collection contemplation that goes into a the torch of garden stewardship and the challenges of the th th Sun., June 3 – Oct. 28, 11 am – 2 pm from the 18 to the early 20 century. historic house museum. At 2 pm each Sunday in dwindling interest in historic garden preservation. Coventry Farmers’ Market Regular admission applies. Join us for the 15th season of the Coventry August, join us on the porch for light Learn about the formation and evolution of Palmer-Warner House Farmers’ Market! Free admission to the 1st Sun., Aug. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2 pm refreshments and deep conversation, then Connecticut’s Historic Gardens and talk 307 Town Street floor of the House & family-friendly 7 Sundays on the Porch stay for a topic-focused tour of the house about how museums like Webb-Deane- East Haddam, CT 06423 history activities. For more information & A NEW lecture series on behind-the- 860.247.8996 or garden. Stevens and Phelps-Hatheway keep their to sign up for the weekly newsletter, visit scenes keeping of a historic house [email protected] gardens looking attractive. www.coventryfarmersmarket.org. museum. See pg. 5 for details. Registration th recommended at 860.668.0055 or The series kicks-off on August 5 with Open for tours May – Nov.: What to Keep, a presentation by Lastly on August 26th, join Peggy Sat., Sept. 22, 11 am – 12:30 pm st st rd [email protected]. Walktober: Hale Homestead’s 1 Sat., 11 am – 4 pm; 1 & 3 Sponsored by the Friends of Suffield. Archivist Heidi Abbey Moyer of Penn Wishart, Collections Manager at Old 18th-Century Farm Landscape Tour Tues., 10 am – 2 pm $12 per person; $20 series pass for CTL For groups of 8 or less only; $35 per State on maintaining archival collections York Historical Society, for a finale about Stroll into history as you are guided Members. with details from her experience organizing the most talked about part of the house- the through the Hale Family Farm. Journey person/ $25 for CTL members. into the Nathan Hale State Forest on the Please reserve your tour at least 7 days Fri., Sept. 7, 7 – 8:30 pm and cataloging Penn State’s history. Moyer will walls! Wishart will present What Walls!: historic “road to Norwich,” an 18th-century dirt road in advance by contacting 860.247.8996 Lantern Tours discuss general priorities and challenges in historic wallpapers and how they have survived at the Phelps- that the Hale Family used to drive livestock x 10, or [email protected]. Be transported to the time before preservation, and offer guidelines for individuals Hatheway house for more than 200 years. She will relate to market. Free; heavy rain cancels. All tour proceeds benefit the Palmer- electricity illuminated our homes. Join our Warner Visitor Welcome, Program & considering items to purge or keep in their own lives. the arduous process of manufacturing wallpaper in the costumed guides on a twilight tour with th Sun., Sept. 30, 1 – 2:30 pm Exhibit Center Project. 18 century and the unsung heroes that created these lanterns through the dim corners of the th Walktober: I Spy a Letterbox – house. Includes light refreshments. On Sunday, August 12 , join Phelps-Hatheway Museum masterpieces. She will, like all the speakers, plant the Children’s Walk Regular admission applies. Interpreters for What we Have – exploring ways to connect seed for future preservation. Letterboxing is a treasure-hunt style with the collection. Site staff have chosen objects in the activity where hidden caches are found collection that lead to a larger story. Learn how staff use For more information, please visit our calendar section, using clues. This exploration through the Nathan Hale State Forest is guided by a Thank You to Our New Members! dialogue methods from the International Coalition of Sites follow the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden on letterboxing expert & will last about 1.5 Tracy Ajello, Brenda Barnes, Kathleen & Frederick Barrett, Fran Barringer, of Conscience to involve guests in the process of exploring Facebook, and visit www.ctlandmarks.org. hours. Letterboxing kits available for $5. Jason Blackwell, Carolyn & Lionel Carbonneau, Jennifer Carrier, Charles Cino, and learning from history. Get the wheels turning and get Free; heavy rain cancels. Mervyn E. Clay, Paul & Bonny Cohen, Gregory Davis, Christiana Dikun, excited about the role of museums in our modern world! Lorraine M. Dodd, Nancy Eisenlohr, Anne Frost, Michael Guay, Kyle Higgins, Fri. & Sat., Sept. 28 & 29, 7 – 9 pm continued from page 1 Fri. & Sat., Oct. 5 & 6, 7 – 9 pm Margaret Hunt, Joan Jakiela, Robert Francis Jones, Linda & Dwight Juliani, JP & Rita Karsted, Phyllis Katz, Mary Kirlin, Karin Maandi, Divya Mathieu, Kent Rain Date: Oct. 7 with the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum’s witchcraft in Connecticut– 16 of which For more information about our fall May, Sheila McBride & Eric Lordi, Mary Nason, Mark Okun, Robin & Richard Haunted Hale Annual Corn Maze Witches & Tombstones Tours. Hear ended in execution. Get to know the events and regular operating hours for Pearson, Sandy Perlman, Jessica Petvo, Susan & Ed Shaw, David Silver, Lynn Dare to enter a maze brimming with tales of witchcraft, including notable “residents” of Wethersfield, learn our favorite haunts, check out the ghosts, ghouls & the headless horseman! Strawson, Gail Tine, Sandra Trudeau, Mary Beth Van Dine, Lorri Vilorio, Wethersfield’s Mary Johnson who in about 1800s funeral practices, and stop calendar section, follow us on Facebook, The fun continues with face painting, Ginny & Bob Vocelli, Andrews Wainacht, Marcy Ward. 1648 was the first of 43 cases of by CTL’s Buttolph-Williams House. and visit www.ctlandmarks.org.
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NAACP Honors the Hempsted Houses n June 28th, the New London chapter of the NAACP honored several individuals with Lifetime Achievement Awards, and several Summer O organizations with special awards in a number of categories, at their annual Freedom Fund Dinner. The Hempsted Houses is proud to have received the Education Award from the New London NAACP for our work sharing the Fun African American history of our site and of New London. Special recognition was given to our Hempsted Site Administrator and Project Manager Aileen at CTL! Novick, who has worked with many teachers, schools, and community members to create new education programs and offerings like the 8th grade activism program, our camp and youth group programs, and continued work on Juneteenth and other special events.
“It takes many committed staff and community members to create change, and we thank all of our dedicated Hempsted staff, our community partners – especially Jean Jordan of the NAACP, and our Juneteenth partners at the Opportunities & Industrialization Center (OIC),” states Novick.
Hempsted education programs are transformational for our young visitors and
Photos by La Chale Gillis of Coveringz Corp offer classroom resources for area educators. Curriculum packets provide local primary sources to teachers and activists within their own communities. projects in the community without our information on colonial life: the lives of Expert guest speakers, performers and generous funders: the Bodenwein Top: On June 30th, Vintage Base Ball teams made history by the white settlers, the enslaved Africans, stories of activism throughout history Public Benevolent Foundation, Bank of playing the first game at the Nathan Hale Homestead in over a the children of the Hempsted family, and challenge students to consider how they America, N.A., Trustee; the Kitchings century. Above: Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden’s annual Fairy the community. Field trips speak to the can make their voices heard. We will Family Fund; the Frank Loomis Fest inspires children to create and imagine. Suffield Garden importance of place, allowing students continue to work with students in the Palmer Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Club Members, First Selectman Melissa Mack and supporters the time and space to think about the Language/Culture & Leadership Trustee; the William Casper Graustein of the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden enjoyed Cocktails in different people who lived in the oldest Program at Bennie Dover Jackson, the Memorial Fund; Connecticut the Hatheway Garden. The lawn between the Butler-McCook extant house in New London. neighborhood middle school. Humanities; and the Institute of House & Garden and the Amos Bull House’s Richard P. The Graustein funded 8th grade Museum and Library Services. Garmany Fund Music & Education Terrace overflowed at the program inspires young people to be The Hempsted Houses could not Sunset Sounds Concert Series. Le: Historically accurate accomplish the many critical education uniforms and equipment were used in a Hale of a double header. A dance performance by the Lion’s Den Dance Company at Juneteenth. The Chris Marolda Duo rocked the Phelps- Hatheway fundraiser. Below: Children build fairy houses in Of Interest Bellamy-Ferriday’s enchanted fairy forest. At his return to Revolution Song: A Story of The Witch of Blackbird Pond Hartford, Base player Dezron Douglas attracted 200 concert American Freedom (W. W. Norton & (Houghton Mifflin, 1958) by goers including his grandmother. Hempsted Youth had a Company, 2017) by Russell Shorto is Elizabeth George Speare is great phenomenal weekend learning with Tammy Denease as Joan a historical nonfiction narrative of 6 summer reading for children ages 8- Jackson, and Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project at New drastically different, but connected, 14! Orphaned Kit Tyler leaves her London’s Juneteenth. Thank you to all who contributed to the lives during the American War for home in Barbados to travel to a strict success of CTL’s Summer 2018! Independence. Shorto’s work relates Puritan community in colonial the individuals’ efforts for freedom: Connecticut in 1687. She befriends the well-known George Washington; the old Quaker woman known as the Mary Coghlan, the daughter of a witch of Blackbird Pond until their British officer who forced her to friendship is discovered and Kit is marry at 15; Seneca Chief accused of witchcraft herself! The Cornplanter; British aristocrat George Germain; Abraham Yates, author states that the house where Kit resides is inspired by the a populist lawyer; and Venture Smith, who was sold into slavery CTL’s Buttolph-Williams house in Old Wethersfield. Come tour as a child. Through these astonishing lives, Shorto unfolds the the House, operated by the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, from meaning of freedom beyond that glossy version associated with now through October (see calendar section for more the Revolution. Available from smile.amazon.com for Kindle, as information). The Witch of Blackbird Pond can be purchased at an audio book, and in print; please support Connecticut smile.amazon.com, or borrowed at your local library. Landmarks with your amazon smile purchase. Page 4 P a g e 9
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L: Einsiedel, with a THANK YOU! Welcome to the CTL Family! broad ax, at the We are grateful for the support of Nathan Hale Barns our members, donors, community Opening. Photo by Defining Studio. partners, funders and sponsors. New Trustees & Staff R:Einsiedel has used Without you, preserving, presenting the same tools for and promoting the very best of Michele Devanney is a full-time Realtor in over 20 years, some of Connecticut history would them saved from not be possible. Connecticut for ERA Sargis-Breen. She comes to CT barns. He believes in Landmarks with an appreciation of Connecticut repairing things rather than disposing Anonymous history and the beautiful homes- each preserved to tell of them. Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at HFPG their own story. Raised in NH, an alumna of Siena Bank of America College, and now a 14 year resident of Newington, Bethlehem Christmas Town Festival Michele and her husband Jeff are busy raising three Bethlehem Land Trust active children. As a member of the Board and the M. Bird Family Stewardship & Collections Committee, she hopes to Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation remind her children that history and those who came before us matter greatly. Budd Family Fund at HFPG Preservation Carpentry with Mike Einsiedel Cafémantic Leonardo H. Suzio is an entrepreneur, President of the ike Einsiedel is a self-employed carpenter and At Howell Cheney Technical High School he learned J. Gladwin Cannon Trust York Hill Trap Rock Quarry C. Inc. and the Corporate owner of Yankee Restoration & Remodeling LLC carpentry and drafting. Afterwards, he worked for another Capital Community College Secretary of The L. Suzio Companies Inc. Len serves on specializing in post beam construction, and self-employed carpenter. He says he was never very good Arnold E. and Mary I. Carlson Fund at HFPG the Board of Trustees for Goodspeed Musicals in East M restoration work. He is an outstanding craftsman whose at traditional school work so once he got hooked on timber Chelsea Groton Foundation, Inc. Haddam and the Shubert CAPA Theater in New Haven. photo albums detail years of gorgeous projects, all framing he learned by doing. “If I was driving down the City of Hartford He puts his many years of construction expertise to good painstakingly done by hand. street and saw a dilapidated barn I’d pull in and ask the City of New London use by volunteering with and serving on the board of owner about it. Some just wanted me off their property, Mrs. James Sage Coburn Fund at HFPG Habitat for Humanity of Great New Haven. Len’s love of CT Department of Economic & Community historic homes is seen in his beautifully restored c. 1830 Einsiedel has worked on several of CTL’s restoration and some would let me take them down for free.” Development Oysterman house and the connected Italianate house. preservation projects including the Hale Barns restoration Connecticut Explored which was completed in June 2017, and the exterior “You have got to love what you’re doing because it’s hard, CT Forest & Park Association Deborah Ullman retired in 2017 as CEO of YWCA restoration of CTL’s Forge Farm house, corn crib, and barn dangerous work and unless you get lucky there’s not a lot CT Historic Gardens Hartford Region after 14 years. Prior to YWCA, she in Stonington, completed in July 2018. He begins the of money in it.” Young and broke, Einsiedel and his wife, CT Humanities spent most of her career at Aetna in a variety of roles. process by examining every inch of the building. He takes Stephanie, decided to build their own stunning log cabin. CT Natural Gas (CNG) She also had senior roles at American Skandia and photos and draws diagrams of how everything was fit “We cut 400+ trees and dragged them back to the site. That CT Santa Society Phoenix. While in the financial services industry, she together by the original builders. Every part of the building first winter we scraped all the bark off. Then I hand hewed CT State Historic Preservation Office held several professional designations, including is labeled and those letters and numbers are transferred to all of the timbers. The cabinets, the doors, all were made CT Trust for Historic Preservation Associate in the Casualty Actuarial Society. She drawings, creating a map for reassembly. “There are not from the trees from the site – all the old fashioned way on Coventry Farmers' Market at Hale Homestead currently serves as the President of the Board of many nails in these buildings, only a few and usually only nights and weekends.” Coventry Mansfield American Legion Trustees of the YWCA Retirement Fund and on the in the siding.” Einsiedel practices traditional New England Cummings & Good Graphic Design boards of CT Women’s Hall of Fame, CT Landmarks and The Children’s joinery techniques and pounds in 1-inch diameter oak pegs When asked if he has a favorite project, he said it was a toss- Anthony & Elizabeth Enders Fund of the Museum. She is an accomplished knitter and lives with her husband and son with the “whomper”. Einsiedel sources reclaimed materials up. Each of Einsiedel’s projects have special meaning. He Community Foundation of Southeastern CT in Litchfield. and gets timbers cut at a sawmill. can remember riding his Belgian draft horse from his Ensworth Charitable Foundation property through the Nathan Hale State Forest to the fields The Federal Restaurant Peg Shimer joined the Bellamy-Ferriday House & “If the original timbers wouldn’t have been milled, I around the Nathan Hale Homestead and looking at the barns. Ferriday Fund at BNY Mellon Garden as a Museum Interpreter and was recently hit up the surface with my tools to give them the look First National Bank of Suffield promoted to Site Administrator! She loves history and of the period. I can hand hew timbers, use a vertical “I felt privileged to get to work on that project. A lot Stanley D. & Hinda N. Fisher Fund at HFPG a good story. Peg held several VP-level marketing roles mounted saw or a circular saw, which had become the of people do it for the money. I do it because it... Friends of Suffield at corporations like Acxiom, NBCi and Webster usual in mills by the 1860s.” makes me feel good because it’s saving a little piece of The Fund for Greater Hartford Financial. “As marketer you are always telling stories, history and it preserves a little piece of me in it. Fuss & O'Neill helping people visualize; that is what we do every day Ideally, Einsiedel builds using trees from the site. Maybe 200 years from now someone else will be Richard P. Garmany Fund at HFPG at the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden. The novel “Historically, the people building these barns were doing working on one of these and see that piece of me in Marion & Ellsworth Grant Fund at HFPG Lilac Girls has exposed new people to the Bellamy- very hard work so they would have used what was growing William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund how I’ve done the work.” Ferriday House and CT Landmarks, giving us an nearby, dragging it with oxen or horses to the site. They Greater Hartford Arts Council opportunity to share more of the story and expand their interests; and would have used white pine, hemlock, red oak, white Griebel Family Fund at HFPG Mike will begin work on restoring CTL’s Palmer-Warner hopefully engage them in a meaningful dialogue.” Peg’s interests include oak…” He adds, “Some of the woods have just plain died- Nathan Hale Fife & Drum Corps Barns in East Haddam this year. gardening, traveling, and spending time with her husband Rob, their daughter, out. There are no more Chestnuts.” and dogs Macy and Molly. Page 10 Page 3
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Conneicut Landmarks THANK YOU! Amos Bull House Dear Friends, Interns Continued... 59 South Prospect Street Tiara Desire-Brisard is a senior at Trinity College, double This is shaping up to be quite a summer for Hartford, CT 06106 majoring in Public Policy & Law and English Literature. Astrid & Fred Hanzalek Fund II at HFPG Connecticut Landmarks! 860.247.8996 She has joined the literary society/fraternity Cleo of Alpha The Hartford Courant Media Group The Hartford [email protected] On June 15th, performance artist Tammy Chi and enjoys drawing and music. She loves spending time ctlandmarks.org Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Denease was featured on WNPR's Where with friends and exploring new places. After graduation, she Hartford News We Live hosted by Lucy Nalpathanchil to hopes to continue her education by studying law and Officers Hoffman Auto Group share the story of Joan Jackson and other working in the public sector. Frederick C. Copeland, Jr., Chair Shepherd Monson Holcombe Fund at HFPG "hidden women" in history, as part of Cornelius O'Leary, Vice Chair & Governance Chair Institute of Museum & Library Services James D. Parry, Vice Chair & Finance Chair Where We Live's Juneteenth program. Visit David Johnston is a senior at Chester Kitchings Family Foundation James Anderson, Treasurer ctlandmarks.org/media to listen. Tammy Connecticut College majoring in Kitchings Family Fund at Community Beth Iacampo, Secretary & Personnel Chair Attendees at McGill’s Hempsted Denease and Joseph McGill of the Slave American Studies and English. After graduation, he hopes to Foundation of Eastern Connecticut campfire passed a brick made by an Dwelling Project were featured presenters continue working in museums and pursuing his interests in Trus enslaved person around. Its maker’s La Piastra John Bon fingerprints are child sized. at our Hempsted Juneteenth celebration on American history. He has really enjoyed working on the The Last Green Valley Carla Cabrera June 9th. Palmer-Warner project and learning more about Frederic and Lips, Rousseau Wealth Management David Canton, Ph.D. Howard’s life. Michele Devanney The New London chapter of the NAACP honored the Hempsted Houses with William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Rohan A. Frman an Education Award at their annual Freedom Fund Dinner on June 28th, and NewAlliance Foundation Chelsea Marti is a graduate student Susan Horn special recognition was given to Hempsted Site Administrator & Project New Morning Market in the Public History Program at CCSU. She is a cultural Jay Levin Manager Aileen Novick (see feature article on page 4). Nick's Country Kitchen Duy McMahan historian of the Post-Modern era (1950’s to the present) and Old Bethlehem Historical Society Dial Parro Connecticut Landmarks' properties have offered many successful summer is specifically interested in studying sports history as well as Patrick L. Pinnell, Stewardsh & Colleions Chair Old Hill Gardens programs including the always popular annual Fairy Festival at the Bellamy- historical interpretation in musical theatre. Through her Todd Regan Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation Ferriday House & Garden, the first ever Vintage Base Ball Game at the Nathan Melissa Roy internship at the Palmer-Warner House, she is creating her The Painted Pony Restaurant Hale Homestead, and the Sunset Sounds Concert Series at the Butler-McCook Anthony J. Salerno, Jr. capstone project- a digital exhibit on the life of Frederic and Frank Loomis Palmer Fund Leonardo H. Suzio House & Garden. We look forward to sharing our upcoming fall programs and Howard, the last residents of the House. People's United Insurance Agency Deborah Ullman haunted happenings with you. James Wu Pirie Associates Architects, LLC We are delighted to announce that Martha Hall Kelly, the New York Times Tanya Pearson is a Ph.D. student in Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund Central Office Staff bestselling author of Lilac Girls, will once again be returning to the Bellamy- the history department at University of Massachusetts Prime Sales Auto Dealers LLC Sheryl N. Hack, Executive Direor Ferriday House & Garden for A Polish Christmas on December 1st! Tour the Amherst, pursuing a graduate certificate in public history. She Robinson & Cole, LLP Jana Colacino, Hartford Educator festively decorated house and learn about Lost Roses, the Lilac Girls prequel is founder and director of the Women of Rock Oral History Vernon D. & Florence E. Roosa Family Jamie-Lynn Fontaine Connell, Project, a collection of digital interviews and written Marketing & Development Manager that tells the story of Caroline’s mother Eliza (coming Spring 2019). Tickets go Foundation at HFPG Amanda Cooper, Marketing & Development Assiant on sale in August, so be sure to check the website for more details. transcripts housed at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith SBM Charitable Foundation Erin Malueg, Colleions Manager & Proje Manager, College, and will be publishing an oral history of rock music Society of the Cincinnati in the State of CT I’d like to update you on work that has occurred this year at CTL's properties. Palmer Warner House with the University of Massachusetts Press in 2021. Soroptimists International of Joseph Pukas, Proper Manager We have made great progress at Forge Farm, having installed a new shingle Greater Waterbury Kerri Zongol, Executive Assiant & Office Manager roof on the house, restored the corn crib, redone the 2004 barn, and completed Gabriela Santiago is an intern from the Arts Workforce Suffield Chamber of Commerce a number of cosmetic exterior house repairs. Special thanks to our outstanding Initiative and is excited to be working at the Amos Bull Suffield Garden Club Museum Staff contractor Mike Einsiedel (see feature story on page 3) and Trustee Jim George McCleary, Program Planner & Se Horticulturi, House with our Hartford Educator for the summer. She is Taylor Rental of Torrington Anderson. Significant repairs have also been completed at the Bellamy- Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden entering her senior year at University of Hartford as a Town of Coventry Ferriday House & Garden including repairing and painting sections of the Peg Shimer, Se Adminirator, Cinema major. When she's not in class, she enjoys baking Travelers house and barn siding and trim, repairing fencing, and installing a new air Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden for her family and friends and hanging out with her dog. True Value of Bethlehem Ailn Novick, Se Adminirator & Proje Manager, movement system. Long awaited repairs to the Butler-McCook Greenhouse, The United Illuminating Company Hemped Houses installation of new side fencing and a new Main Street entrance to the Butler- Anne Marie Charland, Se Adminirator, Kent Shi is a junior at Trinity Veterans of Foreign Wars McCook Garden, and restoration of the Palmer-Warner Barn will commence Nathan Hale Homeead College, majoring in Public Policy Patricia and Charles Walker Family Fund later this season. Marilyn Yarrington, Events Coordinator, and Hispanic Studies. He enjoys at HFPG Nathan Hale Homeead Looking forward to seeing you this fall. traveling, going to movies, reading a good book, spending Webster Bank Lynn Mervosh, Se Adminirator, West Hartford Garden Club Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden time with friends and nice long walks on the beach. He With best regards, enjoyed working at the Butler-McCook House as it is a Whittlesey Accounting Resources, Inc., Consulting Bookkpers wonderful testament to Hartford history and a beacon of both Willimantic Waste Paper Co., Inc. Love & Pop Designs, Graphic Design progress and remembrance at the same time. Windsor Federal Savings Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation Inc. Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at HFPG Sheryl Hack, Executive Director Page 2 Page 11
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Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage PAID Hartford, CT Landmark News Permit # 4994 Conneicut Landmarks Newsletter History Moving Forward Volume 22 Number 2 Summer 2018 Amos Bull House landmarks.org 59 South Prospect Street Hartford, CT 06106
Conneicut Landmarks inires intere & encourages learning about the American pa by preserving seleed hioric properties, colleions & ories & presenting programs that meaningfully engage the public & our communies.
L to R: Heather the Hag in the Maze, by Defining Studio; Foggy Realm and Lantern Tour by Rebecca Wilhite. Hallown Happenings at CTL Haunts elebrate fall and get into the “spirit” of the season with an fright and let their inner spook or ghoul shine with Face Painting array of Halloween happenings across the state! Connecticut by Lyss. Then capture the evening’s memories in our new photo CLandmarks’ autumn programs start off with a glow, but will booth. If you dare to face your future, step inside the mystical leave you screaming in the dark. room and have your Tarot cards read. Comfort your nerves and Help Us Keep History cool off your vocal chords with Halloween concessions and Begin your fall with more sparkle than spook on a Lantern Hosmer Mountain Sodas. Make sure to bring a reliable Tour of the grand Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden in flashlight– the Homestead is not responsible for heads lost in the Moving Forward! th Suffield on Sept. 7 , suitable for even our youngest visitors Maze during the “Sleepy Hollow” themed fun and festivities. CTL’s museum properties are starting points for a (who are welcome to don period attire). Costumed guides deeper appreciation of America’s past through transport you to the time before electricity illuminated our Next, you’ll shiver and shudder at the Nathan Hale Homestead homes on this golden-hour tour through the elegant house. at Things That Go Bump in the Night on Oct. 11th, 12th, 18th memorable firsthand educational experiences. Last year, th we worked to make history come alive for over 4,000 Phelps-Hatheway Lantern Tours are a beautiful way for the and 19 . Enjoy a candlelit tour that will take you room-by- whole family to experience history in a new light. room all the way up to the dark and dreary attic. Interpreters children through school field trips, evening & weekend will share the Homestead’s traditional ghost stories and the Hale programs, & summer workshops. On Sept. 29th, travel to New London as the Hempsted Houses staff’s spooky encounters as featured on the Syfy channel’s join expert guides Jean Jordan of the NAACP, Town Historian Ghost Hunters. This tour will include creaks and cold spots and Sally Ryan, and the souls of New Londoners for a Walking Tour is not recommended for young and tender souls. With the help of our generous donors, of Ye Antientist Burial Ground. This highlights tour focuses on our youngest generation will learn the power of the lives of people of African descent who have long been buried Then on Oct. 20th, the souls of New Londoners will manifest place at CTL’s historic properties this year. at the top of Hempstead Street. Attendees are invited to volunteer around the campfire at New London’s oldest house. The Please support the Annual Fund to keep some extra time tidying-up the graves after the tour. Hempsted Houses (c. 1678) have invited all the ghosts to haunt a Hempsted Halloween. Toast s’mores over the fire and listen as history young! For out loud screams, slip into a foggy realm when the Haunted the ghosts tell their ghoulish stories– talk with them if you dare! Hale Annual Corn Maze returns to the Nathan Hale On a twilight tour of the Joshua Hempsted House, you will Homestead– for the 13th year– on Sept. 28th and 29th, and again encounter plenty of history, and maybe a few uninvited ghosts… Visit ctlandmarks.org to make your contribution today. on Oct. 5th and 6th. Brace your soul to enter the maze brimming with ghosts and ghouls, while attempting to escape from the Lastly on Oct. 27th and 28th, daylight dwellers have the Headless Horseman! Younger family members can forego the opportunity to tour the Wethersfield Ancient Burying Ground continued on page 5
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