300 Years in Northeastern Connecticut: The Not-So-Quiet Corner Saturday, November 2, 2013 The Pomfret School
Registration and Refreshments 8:30 – 9:15
OPENING PLENARY 9:15 – 10:30
Welcome: Nancy Steenburg President, ASCH Tim Richards Head of School, Pomfret School
Presentation of Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., Betty M. Linsley, and Bruce Fraser Awards Peter P. Hinks
Keynote: Eugene Leach, Trinity College “Unquiet Corner of a Quiet Colony: Windham County as a Window onto the Standing Order and Why It Stood."
Break 10:30 – 10:45
I. CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10:45 – 12:15 1. Qualities of Justice and Charity in the Quiet Corner Chair: Guocun Yang, Manchester Community College Larry Goodheart, University of Connecticut “Bastard Neonaticide: Chief Justice Zephaniah Swift and the Tragic Death of Clarissa Ockery, an African-American Woman, at Norwich, Connecticut” Kevin Finefrock, University of Connecticut “Family Affairs: Sex, Lies, and Court Records in the Not-So-Quiet Corner, 1710 – 1740” Julius H. Rubin, University of St. Joseph “Subjection of these Indians unto the Yoke of Christ:” The Creation of New Praying Towns in Northeastern Connecticut and their Fate in King Philip’s War”
2. Labor Challenges in the Quiet Corner Chair: Bruce M. Stave, University of Connecticut Jamie Eves, Eastern Connecticut State University “David Moxon’s Forgotten Files: The Inside Story of One of Connecticut’s Largest Labor Struggles, the American Thread Company Strike of 1925, and Its Impact on a Community, a State, and an Industry” Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University “A Right to Stand for Their Rights: Ethnic and Religious Dimensions of the 1912 Labor Unrest in Willimantic, CT”
Buffet Luncheon 12:15 – 1:30 Pomfret School Dining Room
II. CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:30 – 3:00
3. Women at Work in the Quiet Corner Chair: Jennifer Cote, University of St. Joseph Mary Lycan, University of Connecticut “Expenses Prevented at the Parsonage: The Value of Women’s and Children’s Household Work in Thompson, CT, 1796 - 1816” Cynthia Dias and John Laskey, Putnam Elms “Rest, Recreation, and Reflection: Factory Women at Peace”
4. Outsiders Looking in in the Quiet Corner Chair: Rebecca Taber-Conover, Connecticut’s Old State House Peter Hinks, Wethersfield, CT “Connecting Prudence Crandall: Black Education and Antislavery in Southeastern Connecticut before 1833" Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology “Revisiting the Black Law: Where Race, Gender, and Disability Intersect”
5. Unique Characters in the Quiet Corner Chair: Deborah Donovan, New London County Historical Society Anne Dawson, Eastern Connecticut State University “J. Alden Weir in Willimantic, CT – 1882-1919” Danielle Dumaine, University of Connecticut “War Heroes and Public Memory: Israel Putnam, Henry Dearborn, and the Debate over Bunker Hill”
CLOSING RECEPTION 3:00 – 3:30
Registration Procedures Individuals planning to attend the conference should complete the registration form and return it to the registrar by Friday, October 18th to ensure admission to the luncheon on Saturday, November 2nd. Registrations will, of course, be accepted after that date and at the door on Saturday, November 2nd, but we cannot guarantee space for the reception or lunch. Please make your check payable to ASCH and send it with the registration form to:
Deborah Donovan, Treasurer ASCH P. O. Box 1333 New London, CT 06320
No refunds after October 18th. For those wishing to register online, please go to the ASCH website at http://asch.-cthistory.org/ and click on Upcoming Events and Fall 2013 Meeting. Directions to the Pomfret School The Association for the Study of Connecticut History From Hartford and points West and The Pomfret School are pleased to present a one- Take I-84 East to Exit 69 (Route 74), turn right off ramp onto 74. day conference on the History of Northeastern Connecticut: The Not-So-Quiet Corner. Northeastern Take 74 East to the intersection of 74 and Route 44. Turn left Connecticut is the site of thriving industrial centers, onto 44 (East) for 13 miles. Pomfret School is on 44, 1.5 miles quiet town greens, the last Green Valley, and over 300 after the 44/169 intersection years of economic, political, social, and religious transformations. Please join us for a full day of From New Haven and points South interesting and ground-breaking papers on native Take I-95 North to 395 North (Exit 76), take 395 North to Exit 93 peoples, women, labor history, the courts, artists, and (Dayville, CT). Turn left off ramp onto Route 101 West. heroes. Tour the scenic and historic Pomfret School
At the junction of 101 and Route 169, turn right onto 169. campus during the lunch break.
Pomfret School is 2 miles from this intersection From Boston and points East:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike West to Auburn, MA (Exit 10).
Go through toll booth, follow signs for I-395 South; take 395
South to Exit 97; turn right off ramp onto Route 44 West.
At the junction of 44 and Route 169, turn left onto 44/169.
Pomfret School is 1 mile from this intersection
Conferences of this scope and magnitude are the results of the hard work of many people. Special thanks, however, are due to Dr. Eugene Leach, Vice President of ASCH, for contacting all the local historical societies and museums and organizing the panels and Tim Richards, Head of the Pomfret School, for hosting and supporting this conference, and to Sharon Gaudreau and the staff at the Pomfret School for their hard work in making arrangements for the conference.
Nancy Steenburg President, ASCH
300 Years in Northeastern Connecticut: The Not-So-Quiet Corner
PRESENTED BY
Association for the Study of Connecticut History
The Pomfret School
November 2, 2013
The Pomfret School 398 Pomfret Street Pomfret, CT