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Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage PAID Hartford, CT Landmark News Permit # 4994 Conneicut Landmarks Newsletter History Moving Forward Volume 21 Number 2 Summer 2017 Amos Bull House landmarks.org 59 South Prospect Street Hartford, CT 06106

Conneicut Landmarks inires intere & encourages learning about the American pa by preserving seleed hioric properties, colleions & ories & presenting programs that meaningfully engage the public & our communies.

September Special Events Evening at the Homestead Curtis Goodwin shares his story of going from homelessness to successful entrepreneurship encouraging diversity in major companies. Photo by La Chale Gillis. Sat., Sept. 16, 5:30 – 8:30 pm Rain date: Sun., Sept. 17 Nathan Hale Homestead 2299 South Street, Coventry New London Students Explore Aivism Classic Cars oday is the highlight of my entire year,” said eighth why the topic was important to them and presented action “ grade social studies teacher Baylee Howard as she steps that they could take to help address the issue. The & Cocktails Tobserved her students at the Spring Forum at themes ranged widely: bullying, animal rights, racial Connecticut College. A student was eagerly discussing his profiling, police brutality, LGBT issues and much more. Sat., Sept. 23, 3 – 7 pm poster with students from a nearby school. “He’s been quiet all Rain date: Sun., Sept. 24, 2 – 6 pm year and was really nervous about today. Look at him now!” Some 90 eighth graders from the Clark Lane Middle Palmer-Warner House School in Waterford, Bennie Dover Jackson seventh grade 307 Town St., East Haddam CTL’s Hempsted Houses have been working since January students, and community members engaged with the 2017 with 120 eighth graders at Bennie Dover Jackson students about their posters. Students also heard from Middle School in New London to explore leadership and Curtis Goodwin, a young New London activist, who started activism in history. The May 5th event was the program’s the New London Talent Show as a way to showcase the www.ctlandmarks.org culmination where students presented exhibit boards on a artistry of New London area students and to build bridges topic they had chosen and researched. Students explained between students from different communities. Then, small continued on page 9 aCTLSummer2017_Layout 1 6/28/2017 8:29 AM Page 2

Conneicut Landmarks THANK YOU! Amos Bull House Dear Friends, Continued... 59 South Prospect Street Hartford, CT 06106 Our 2017 programs are meeting with Griebel Family Fund at HFPG 860.247.8996 strong success with audiences both Nathan Hale Fife & Drum Corps [email protected] young and old. Our season began with Astrid & Fred Hanzalek Fund II at HFPG ctlandmarks.org events that have drawn crowds and Hartford Courant inspired learning about the American The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. Officers past. Our Lilac Girls event sold out in Hartford Flavor Company Frederick C. Copeland, Jr., Chair & Interim Finance Chair June—and due to popular demand, we Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Hartford News Dial Parro, Vice Chair & Governance Chair have added a special encore event with Deb Davis, Treasurer Hoffman Auto Group author Martha Hall Kelly on July Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman James Anderson, Secretary th 15 . Visit our new website, Foundation, Inc. Trus ctlandmarks.org, to purchase tickets and be sure you don’t miss out! Shepherd Monson Holcombe Fund at HFPG John Bon More than 450 people attended the May Fairy Festival at the Bellamy- Institute of Museum & Library Services Carla Cabrera Ferriday House & Garden. We added an extra seating to our Mother’s KeyBank David Canton, Ph.D. Chester Kitchings Family Foundation Rohan A. Frman Day tea in Suffield to accommodate demand for this special day. Beth Iacampo Kitchings Family Fund at Community Jay Levin New in 2017 are special Member Events. In April, many members Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Dr. Troy Monr enjoyed the work we have done at the Isham-Terry House in Hartford. The Last Green Valley th Interpreter Michael Mitola welcomed Coventry students for a Colonial experience. The Lily House Bed & Breakfast James D. Parry The next Member Event this season is on July 8 when Quincy Abbot nd rd Patrick L. Pinnell, Colleions Chair will discuss the Hale family portraits that he encouraged his cousins to Don’t miss the Revolutionary War Encampment and Musical Muster July 22 -23 . Lips, Rousseau Wealth Management Todd Regan donate for permanent display at the Hale Homestead. Members will William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Melissa Roy, Development Chair also enjoy a potluck harvest dinner at the Phelps-Hatheway House & NewAlliance Foundation Anthony J. Salerno, Jr. Garden on September 10th and be enchanted during a twilight lantern Nick's Country Kitchen James Wu Old Bethlehem Historical Society tour of the house. I want to thank our newest members: Clarissa Nathan Hale Homestead, Coventry: Central Office Staff Is Your Tween Bored? Mon. – Fri., July 24 – 28, 10 am – 3 pm. Old Hill Garden Ceglio, Janet Dunne, Karen A. Kelleher, Conrad Ost Seifert, and Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation Sheryl N. Hack, Executive Direor Stephanie Rogers. To become a member, visit ctlandmarks.org, call 860.742.6917 Jana Colacino, Hartford Educator Try Colonial Camp! Frank Loomis Palmer Fund 860.247.8996 x 23, or stop by one of our Landmark properties. Jamie-Lynn Fontaine Connell, Phelps-Hatheway House, Suffield: Pentimento Flowers Marketing & Development Manager People’s United Insurance Agency Drop by the Hale Homestead any Sunday through October for the Colonial Camp is offered at three CTL Mon., July 31 – Fri., Aug. 4, 10 am – 3 Amanda Cooper, Marketing & Development Assiant Pirie Associates Architects, LLC properties this summer for youngsters pm. 860.668.0055 Erin Malueg, Colleions Manager & Proje Manager, wildly popular Coventry Farmers' Market and check out the newly Robinson & Cole, LLP ages 7-12. Hands-on fun includes games Palmer Warner House restored barns, which are ready to stand for decades to come. Museum Hempsted Houses, New London: Vernon D. & Florence E. Roosa Family Joseph Pukas, Proper Manager and daily activities from yesteryear, interpreters will guide you through the first floor of the Homestead Mon., July 31 – Fri., Aug. 4, 9 am – 1 Foundation at HFPG Kerri Zongol, Executive Assiant & Office Manager storytelling, and much more. Contact the and engage families with new activities each month. pm. 860.443.7949 SBM Charitable Foundation house to check availability. Soroptimists International of Greater Museum Staff In Hartford, students are adding their voice to help us make historic Waterbury George McCleary, Se Horticulturi & Interim Se st th house museums relevant for the 21 century during the 15 year of our Suffield Chamber of Commerce Adminirator, Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden Youth Employment Program. Several of our properties are hosting Suffield Garden Club Ailn Novick, Se Adminirator & Proje Manager, Hemped Houses young scholars in grades K-8 from Jumoke Academy’s summer TD Bank Anne Marie Charland, Se Adminirator, program. In May and June, fifth and sixth graders from Jumoke came Town of Coventry Nathan Hale Homeead to the Butler-McCook House as the final event for their spring social Towne Apothecary Lynn Mervosh, Se Adminirator, studies curriculum. Travelers Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden True Value of Bethlehem Don’t miss our autumn fundraisers! Celebrate fall and the completion The United Illuminating Company Accounting Resources, Inc., Consulting Bookkpers of the Hale Barns Project with Evening at the Homestead on Saturday, Patricia and Charles Walker Family Fund Love & Pop Design + Communications, Graphic Design September 16th. Enjoy farm-to-table offerings by Cafémantic and at HFPG lively music by the Chris Marolda Duo in our gorgeous, newly Webster Bank restored barns and patio space. Then on Saturday, September 23rd, join West Hartford Garden Club us for Classic Cars & Cocktails and get a sneak peek of the Palmer- Westford Hill Distillers Warner House in East Haddam before it is open to the public as CT’s Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C. first LGBTQ historic house museum. Willimantic Waste Paper Co., Inc. Windsor Federal Savings Bank Looking forward to seeing you this summer at the properties! Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation Inc. Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at HFPG

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THANK YOU! We are grateful for the support of our members, donors, community partners, funders and sponsors. Without you, preserving, presenting and promoting the very best of Connecticut history would not be possible.

2Seal, LLC Anonymous Accounting Resources, Inc. Arbor Services, LLC Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at HFPG Bank of America Bethlehem Christmas Town Festival Bethlehem Land Trust Bloom! Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation CTL Member Spurs Budd Family Fund at HFPG Cafémantic J. Gladwin Cannon Trust Donation of Hale Portraits Capital Community College ale descendent Quincy Abbot silhouette was found in the early Arnold E. and Mary I. Carlson Fund at HFPG is his family’s historian, he 1900s buried under layers of paint. It Chubb Group of Insurance Companies explains as he pages through is the only known likeness of Nathan Lilac Girls Event! City of Hartford H City of New London his grandfather’s genealogy book that done in life. ur June event with New York Times bestselling Mrs. James Sage Coburn Fund at HFPG itself is now nearly a author Martha Hall Kelly sold out with more than Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut century old. His The portraits hung in O300 people in attendance to meet Martha at social CT Community Foundation interest started when New Hampshire for philanthropist Caroline Ferriday’s Connecticut home. CT Department of Economic & Community he was a sickly child many years, then Development and his mother gave found their way to a Connecticut Explored him old family letters family attic on Cape CT Forest & Park Association to read. Quincy has Cod. “I first saw CT Historic Gardens CT Humanities three or four file them 20 or 25 years CT Natural Gas (CNG) cabinets of historic ago when my cousins CT State Historic Preservation Office documents and hauled them down CT Trust for Historic Preservation correspondence that from the attic,” he Coventry Farmers' Market at Hale Homestead go back to the 1700s. explains. Cummings & Good Graphic Design Paul H. Eddy and Elizabeth J. Normen Fund “I’m looking for Quincy will give a at HFPG good homes for this Member Event talk Anthony & Elizabeth Enders Fund of the material,” Quincy explains. “The at the Hale Homestead on July 8th at th Community Foundation of Southeastern CT Homestead was certainly the right 11 am about his connection to the Martha Hall Kelly returns July 15 ! Ensworth Charitable Foundation place” for two portraits painted in the Hale family, how he facilitated the Eversource Martha will be back at the lovely Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden on Saturday, July 15th. The Federal Restaurant 1840s of Rebekah Hale Abbot donation of the portraits, and other Availability is limited - reserve your space today! Ferriday Fund at BNY Mellon (Nathan’s niece) and her husband tales of family lore. He has written a First National Bank of Suffield Ezra Abbot. Quincy requested that his book about his great uncle’s Civil 10 am - 12 pm, Morning 12 - 1 pm, Author Presentation ($25) Patron Day Pass ($100) Freeman Companies, LLC cousins, who owned the portraits, to War service: From Schoolboy to Session ($35) Book Talk with Martha Hall Kelly Includes Day Pass, signed copy of Friends of Suffield donate them to the Homestead after Soldier: The Correspondence and Lilac Girls tour, landscape walk, Lilac Girls & tax-deductible The Fund for Greater Hartford loaning them for several years. Journals of Edward Stanley Abbot: author visit & book signing Day Pass ($50) contribution to the Bellamy- Fuss & O'Neill 1853-1863. Quincy is also a national Includes Lilac Girls tour, landscape Ferriday House & Garden Richard P. Garmany Fund at HFPG In a letter to her granddaughter, advocate for those with Marion & Ellsworth Grant Fund at HFPG walk, book signing & book talk Rebekah described a silhouette of developmental disabilities and a William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund Greater Hartford Arts Council Nathan on an upstairs door in the leader in the insurance industry. For more information & to purchase tickets, visit www.ctlandmarks.org or call 860.247.8996 x 23. Homestead. Based on this letter, the Page 10 Page 3 aCTLSummer2017_Layout 1 6/28/2017 8:29 AM Page 4

THANK YOU! continued from page 1 groups of students from both schools talked through Thousands of hours of painstaking work were required to complete the barns how young people can address important social restoration project. Fuss & O’Neill issues today and make a positive impact on their Design Build led our construction team communities. with James A. Vance and Associates and their terrific subcontractors and vendors. New London’s NAACP partnered with CTL on the project and Connecticut College education and policy students served as classroom mentors. The project was funded by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund as part of their learning about equity Action Air Systems, Inc. in education initiative. During the spring, the All Town Hauling, LLC Hempsted Houses brought the voices of minority activists in history to the school. Kevin Johnson of Ameri-Loo Eighth grader Zharia Pollard poses a question. She later received the the CT State Library portrayed an African-American Craig Flynn Excellence in Leadership Award for her Spring Forum American Builders and Contractors Civil War private and Tammy Denease portrayed work on water pollution in New London. Photo by La Chale Gillis. Supply Co., Inc. Sarah Margu, a child aboard the Amistad who American Measuring Service Nathan Hale Homestead graduated from Oberlin College and returned to her native Sierra Leone as a missionary. Young D. R. Bunce & Co. Barns Re-Opening Mashantucket Pequot tribal members spoke to the Chase Glass Company, Inc. n June 11th, Connecticut Landmarks students about their experiences last year standing Classic Restaurant Supply, LLC celebrated the completion of three up for Native land and water rights when they CorBuilt, LLC phases of capital upgrades to the protested the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing O Rock Reservation in North Dakota. Homestead at the Hale Barns Restoriation Damon, Steve Project Ribbon Cutting. We have Danek Flooring, Inc. dramatically more space available for Baylee Howard, the eighth grade social studies DeSiato Sand & Gravel Corporation programs, exhibits, and facility rentals for teacher, and her student teacher Peter Burge (a senior special events and weddings. at Conn College who just won a Fulbright Earth Dynamics, LLC scholarship) spent many weeks working with the East Haven Builders Phase I of the project included Homestead students on their independent research, papers, and FastSigns restoration, re-interpretation, and new youth projects. Interaction with Bennie Dover Jackson school will continue this summer when students Goehring Electric, LLC programs. Phase II included preservation participating in Camp Rotary visit the Hempsted More than 100 Bennie Dover Jackson students presented issues they and adaptive reuse of the Homestead’s ell to care about and what they could do about them to community members James K. Grant Associates Houses. create a new Visitor Center & Museum and students from another school. Photo by La Chale Gillis. IQT, LLC Store. Phase III focused on preservation and McAdams, Mark renovation of the Hale barns to house multi- purpose program and event space. Bring Your Par New England Custom Masonry, Inc. The Greater Hartford Arts Council is proud to support Outback Landscaping, LLC to Our House! through the Professional Lock & Safe Co., Inc. Connecticut Landmarks Sposito Custom Contracting, LLC United Arts Campaign. Superior Products, Inc. Total Fence, LLC. Valley & Aetna Building Products James Vance and Associates Karen Warner Design, LLC Windham Materials, LLC Birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, meetings, weddings, Witch Enterprises, Inc. corporate events – CTL’s historic Join the campaign at LetsGoArts.org. Yankee Restoration & Remodeling, LLC properties are open for business! Visit www.ctlandmarks.org to secure your special date! Page 4 P a g e 9 aCTLSummer2017_Layout 1 6/28/2017 8:30 AM Page 5

Sat., July 8, 11 am Homestead ghost stories & the Hale staff’s from the 18th to the early 20th century. Member Event: Quincy Abbot spooky tales, as featured on the Syfy Regular admission applies. THANK YOU! Long-time member Quincy Abbot shares channel’s Ghost Hunters. $25/ $20 CTL We are grateful for the financial support family stories about two 1840s paintings members, includes refreshments. Mon. – Fri., July 31 – Aug. 4, 10 am – 3 pm of the State of Connecticut and the SBM Reservations required at 860.742.6917 or of Hale relatives & his family connection Colonial Camp Charitable Foundation, as well as to the Homestead. Light refreshments. [email protected]. Journey back with us to Colonial Suffield Newman’s Own Foundation and our Registration requested at 860.742.6917 or & participate in historic activities in the many generous donors, who made this [email protected]. garden, house, & barns. A special surprise will await all on the final day: music & important project possible. Sat., July 22, 11 am – 4 pm dancing will fill the air! Registration Hale at the Homestead required at [email protected]. See Revolutionary War soldiers’ daily life Ages 8-12; $200 per week/ $175 CTL at our military encampment. Witness members. tactical demonstrations, craft demonstrations, children’s activities, & Fri., Sept. 8, 6 pm meals cooked by campfire. Hosted by the Harvest Festival (Picnic & Lantern Tours) Nathan Hale Ancient Fife & Drum Corps. Savor the bounty of Suffield at our Suggested donation of $5. Harvest Days during an all-town picnic— Many foundations and agencies support Palmer-Warner House bring a dish made with local ingredients & programming at the Nathan Hale Sun., July 23, 12 pm 307 Town Street a place setting. A pie contest will take 7 Homestead. Thank you for continuing to Musical Muster East Haddam, CT 06423 place during the dinner; lucky winners Opposite page, upper left: Trustees and help us bring history to life! Over a dozen Fife & Drum Corps from 860.247.8996 will take home a prize & a CTL dignitaries celebrate cutting the ribbon at Southern New England will present a [email protected] membership. After dinner, join our the barns, including (L to R): Trustee Jim Anonymous parade featuring fifes & wooden rope costumed guides on a twilight lantern tour tension snare & bass drums. Hosted by the Open for special events only and group of our historic property & be transported Parry, former State Representative Joan Institute of Museum & Library Services Nathan Hale Ancient Fife & Drum Corps. tours by appointment to the time before electricity illuminated Lewis, DECD Commissioner Catherine NewAlliance Foundation Free, donations welcome. our homes. $10 for Lantern Tour /CTL Smith, Trustee Jim Anderson, Secretary of Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation members free. Classic Cars & Cocktails State Denise Merrill, Executive Director Mon. – Fri., July 24 – 28, 10 am – 3 pm SBM Charitable Foundation Sat., Sept. 23, 3 – 7 pm Sheryl Hack, Chair Rick Copeland, Colonial Camp Sat., Sept. 9, 10 am – 5 pm Rain date: Sun., Sept. 24, 2 – 6 pm Travel to the 18th century for hands-on Sun., Sept. 10, 10 am – 4 pm Trustee Patrick Pinnell, SHPO Historian Live music, classic cars, and throwback summer fun. Learn to spin wool, Quilt Show, part of Suffield on the Green Todd Levine, Honorary Trustee & cocktails—what a combination! Get a Many public officials supported and embroider, write with quill pens, dip Our 1867 barn comes alive with color Stonington First Selectman Rob Simmons. sneak peek of the Palmer-Warner House facilitated the project. Thank you for candles, make ice cream & much more! during our 4th annual Textile Trunk Show before it is open to the public as CT’s first your help! For children ages 8-12; $200 per week/ featuring New London-based textile artist LGBT historic house museum. Tickets at This page, lower right: Honorary Trustee $175 CTL members. Registration required Allegra Brelsford! Items & works will be www.ctlandmarks.org or 860.247.8996 x 23. Doug Anderson, Trustee Patrick Pinnell, Governor Dannel P. Malloy at 860.742.6917 or [email protected]. available for purchase throughout the US Senator Chris Murphy weekend. Suggested donation to benefit Executive Director Sheryl Hack, long-time Sat., Aug. 12, 7 pm Phelps-Hatheway educational programs. supporter & former Trustee Ted Sands. US Senator Richard Blumenthal Tavern Night Regular admission applies for house tour. Congressman Joe Courtney Syllabub, shrub & switchel! During the Bottom right: Coventry Director of Former State Representative Joan Lewis 18th century, water was contaminated & Sun., Sept. 10, 1:30 – 3 pm Planning & Development Eric Trott, State Representative Tim Ackert dangerous, so what were people drinking? Uncovering the Past: Textiles from the Charlie Ahles & Jim Galey of Fuss & Learn about our toasting forefathers while House & Barn Commissioner Catherine Smith, O’Neill Design Build, John Sposito of enjoying samples of their favorite brews. Examine our exquisite collection of bed Connecticut Department of Economic Age 21 & up. $25/ $20 CTL members. th th Sposito Custom Contracting, Mike coverings & garments from the 18 & 19 & Community Development Reservations required at 860.742.6917 or centuries & learn about how they were Einsiedal of Yankee Restoration. [email protected]. produced & used. Then, contemplate Historian Todd Levine, State Historic Allegra Brelsford’s innovative quilts. Preservation Office Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Sat., Sept. 16, 5:30 – 8:30 pm Regular admission applies. 55 South Main Street Coventry Town Council Rain Date: Sept. 17 Suffield, CT 06078 Evening at the Homestead 8 Coventry Town Manager John Elsesser 860.668.0055 Enjoy a lovely fall evening & celebrate the Coventry Town Planner Eric Trott [email protected] renovation of the Nathan Hale Barns. All proceeds benefit educational programming Open for tours: May through Oct. at the Nathan Hale Homestead. Register at Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm Our Trustee Task Force—in particular 860.247.8996 x 23 or Jim Parry and Patrick Pinnell, FAIA— www.ctlandmarks.org. brought invaluable technical expertise May– Oct., 1:30 – 3 pm that made the project possible. Special Fri. & Sat., Oct. 20 & 21, 7 pm 1st Saturday Attic Tours thanks are also due to Chair Rick Fri. & Sat., Oct. 27 & 28, 7 pm Dates: Aug. 5, Sept. 2 & Oct. 7 Copeland, Dusty McMahan and Things That Go Bump In the Night Join Interpreter Jack Cown on a rare, Explore the Homestead by candlelight Honorary Trustees Doug Anderson and behind-the-scenes look of the Phelps’ Rob Simmons. tour, room-by-room, all the way up to the servant & attic spaces. The ever-popular dark & dreary attic. Hear the traditional attic tours feature objects & collections Page 8 Page 5 aCTLSummer2017_Layout 1 6/28/2017 8:30 AM Page 6

create a diary, try chores & games & much Sun., Oct. 8, 2 – 3:30 pm Connecticut Landmarks’ historic museums are more. $150 per child with scholarships Walking Tour: Ye Antientist Burial open for regular tours from May through October. available for New London residents & Ground – The African American returning youth. Sponsored by the Chester Connection Let’s Admission is $10 for adults; $8 for students, Kitchings Family Foundation. Register at Walk one of New England’s earliest seniors, teachers & AAA members; $5 for town 860.443.7949 or [email protected]. graveyards with a special focus on those of 2017 residents & children ages 6 -18; free for children African descent. Meet at the burial ground at Sat., Aug. 12, 1 – 4 pm the top of Hempstead Street. $10/ $8 CTL younger than 6 & CTL members. A special family Pirates & the Sea Day members. Registration recommended at price of $20 is available for families with two Join us for pirate entertainment: listen to 860.443.7949 or [email protected]. adults & any number of children. To register for music of the sea & stories of old ships & Hempsted Houses long ago sailors, learn basic knots, make a Sat., Oct. 21, 4 – 7 pm programs, or for more information, please contact 11 Hempstead Street toy boat & participate in a pirate Hempsted Halloween Go! the museum directly or visit www.ctlandmarks.org. New London, CT 06320 4 scavenger hunt. Free, sponsored by the Hear the ghoulish stories of New London & Calendar of events 860.443.7949 Chester Kitchings Family Foundation. talk with ghosts if you dare! Experience the [email protected] city's oldest house at twilight & make Fri., Aug. 18, 6 pm s’mores over an open fire. Free, sponsored Sun., Aug. 20, 1 – 4 pm Thur., July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. Open for tours: May through Oct. Charter Oak Brewery Event by the Chester Kitchings Family Foundation. Herbal Wreathmaking & Lecture 12, Nov. 9 & Dec. 14 , 5:30 – 7:30 pm May – Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm Love beer? P. Scott Vallely of Charter Oak About Drying Flowers Cultural Cocktail Hour Brewing will share his brewing nd Create a gorgeous herbal wreath. $25 per Join us on the 2 Thursday of the month Sat., July 22, 2 – 4 pm knowledge. Soak in the interesting history, wreath including materials & admission to through Dec. for art exhibitions by local Abolitionist Tea & pick his brain about the longtime the house; $20 CTL members. Bring your artists! Free with a suggested $5 food & Join the Hempsted Houses for an outdoor tradition of home brewing. Space is own clippers. Limited space; register at beverage donation. tea & learn about how the abolitionist limited. Registration required at 860.266.7596 or Hempstead sisters found comfort & [email protected] or [email protected]. inspiration from other women at a time 860.443.7949. $25/ $20 CTL members. when their ideas were unpopular. Martha Sat., Sept. 16, 1 – 4 pm wrote antislavery poems & supported Sun., Sept. 17, 2 pm Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden Rain date: Sept. 17 The Hempsted Family & Slavery 9 Main Street North herself by selling sea moss works. Mary Butterfly Tagging Hempstead wrote powerful abolitionist The Joshua Hempsted House tells Bethlehem, CT 06751 1 Learn about the magnificent monarchs, powerful stories of slavery, resistance, Isham-Terry House 203.266.7596 letters & illustrated children’s books. $30/ 211 High Street their flight & migration patterns. Feed $24 CTL members. Reservations required freedom, & courage. Suggested $5 5 [email protected] them in our huge butterfly tent. See how donation. Hartford, CT 06103 at 860.443.7949 or 860.247.8996 we tag them for research & to track their [email protected]. Open for tours: May through Oct. journey south. $5/ CTL members free. Sat., Sept. 30, 1 pm [email protected] May – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Herbs for Home and Health Buttolph-Williams House Mon. – Fri., July 31 –Aug. 4, 9 am – 1 pm Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm Sat., Sept. 23, 1 – 4 pm Explore the history of herbs in America & Group tours by appointment 249 Broad Street Hempsted History Camp Open on Memorial Day, Labor Day & Rain date: Sept. 24 3 gain insight into some of their many uses. Wethersfield, CT 06109 Explore history in our hands-on Columbus Day Dog Show $10/ $8 CTL members. 860.529.0612 Hempstead History Camp. Children will Celebrate dogs with canine-related [email protected] experience 18th-century life, bake bread, Sat., July 15, 10 am – 1 pm contests, demonstrations, kids’ activities & visits from pet-friendly organizations. Lilac Girls Event with Martha Kelly Open for tours: May through Oct. Food available for purchase. $15 Join New York Times bestselling author Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. & Sat., 10 am – 4 pm; registration for 1 adult & 1 dog; $8/ adult; Martha Hall Kelly at the lovely CT home Sun., 1– 4 pm; last tour begins at 3:30 pm 12 & under free. Become a CTL Member! of Caroline Ferriday. Lilac Girls is based Purchase tickets at the Webb House. on the true story of Ravensbruck 8 concentration camp survivors whom Caroline championed. Registration Sat. & Sun., Oct. 21 & 22, 10 am – 4 pm required at 860.247.8996 x 23 or Witches & Tombstones Tours 5 Nathan Hale Homestead www.ctlandmarks.org. In 1648, Wethersfield’s Mary Johnson 2 2299 South Street confessed to witchcraft, the first of 43 6 Coventry, CT 06238 6 3 Sun., July 16, 1 – 4 pm cases in Connecticut, with 16 ending in 1 860.742.6917 Exploring the Ferriday Gardens execution. Hear tales of Wethersfield [email protected] Take a walking tour of the Ferriday witchcraft, 1800s funeral practices, & Open for tours: May through Oct. Gardens with our Horticulturist. Get notable “residents” of the Wethersfield 7 gardening advice & learn about historic Ancient Burying Ground during the 90- May: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm varieties of annuals & perennials. Rain or Butler-McCook House & Garden minute tours. Ages 11 & up. Last tour at 4 June – Sept.: Wed. – Sat., 12 – 4 pm; shine. $10/ free for CTL members. 396 Main Street 3:15. $15 per person. Reservations Sun., 11 am – 4 pm Hartford, CT 06103 2 recommended at 860.529.0612. More Oct.: Sat., 12 – 4 pm; Sun., 11 am – 4 pm Sun., Aug. 6, 2 – 4 pm 860.522.1806 details: www.webb-deane-stevens.org. Your ticket to Travel Tours start on the hour. Herbs in the Garden Walking Tour [email protected] Open Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Tour the Ferriday Gardens & get expert rough Four Centuries Day, Columbus Day & Thanksgiving gardening advice. Rain or shine. $10/ free Open for tours: May through Dec. weekend (Fri. –Sun.) for CTL members. May – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm of Conneicut Hiory. The Hale Homestead grounds are open Oct. – Dec.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm year round from dawn to dusk.

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