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Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage PAID Hartford, CT Landmark News Permit # 4994 Conneicut Landmarks Newsletter History Moving Forward Volume 22 Number 1 Spring 2018 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.

Photos L-R: Joseph McGill, Tammy Denease, and Shades of Joy with Tammy Denease Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Proje Joins the Hemped Houses for Junetnth n Saturday, June 9th from 12 to 4 pm, the Hempsted Preservation; Executive Director of the African American Houses will host the 4th annual New London Museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Director of History and OJuneteenth Festival, which commemorates the ending Culture at Penn Center in St. Helena Island, South Carolina; of slavery in America. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers and Park Ranger at Fort Sumter National Monument in landed at Galveston, Texas and announced that the Civil War Charleston, South Carolina. had ended and the enslaved were now free. In a 2014 interview with Smithsonian Magazine, McGill We have been working with our partners, the New London noted that sleeping in former slave dwellings: NAACP and New London’s OIC (Opportunities and “’seems strange and upsetting to some people.’ But he Industrialization Center) to plan a series of special Juneteenth embraces the discomfort, both physical and psychological, events. This year we are honored to have Joseph McGill of because he wants to save slave dwellings and the history the Slave Dwelling Project as a featured presenter. The Slave they hold before it’s too late. ‘Americans tend to focus on the Dwelling Project is a non-profit organization based in South ‘big house,’ the mansion and gardens, and neglect the Carolina founded by McGill to preserve slave dwellings buildings out back,’ he says. ‘If we lose slave dwellings, it’s throughout the country. To draw attention to these important that much easier to forget the slaves themselves.’” places, McGill spends a night sleeping in them. He began in 2010 with the Magnolia Plantation in South Carolina to draw We are delighted to have Joseph bring renewed attention to attention to a restoration project focused on their slave cabins. the life of Adam Jackson, the enslaved farmer who lived in McGill, an avid Civil War reenactor and descendant of the house from 1727 until after the death of the diarist Joshua enslaved people, slept in one of the cabins to bring attention Hempsted in 1758, and Dinah, the enslaved woman who ran to their need for preservation. Since that first successful away from the house on April 27, 1803. Dr. Allegra di sleepover, Joseph has slept in ninety sites in 18 states. Bonaventura’s book, For Adam’s Sake, provides amazing research about Adam Jackson and his family. It is believed Joseph McGill has a long history working at historic sites, that Adam would have slept in the third floor garret of the including as: Field Officer for the National Trust for Historic continued on page 11

109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 1 5/1/18 3:36 PM Conneicut Landmarks THANK YOU! Amos Bull House Dear Friends, Of Intere: Continued... 59 South Prospect Street Spring has finally sprung and with the good FOR ADULT READERS Hartford, CT 06106 weather comes the beginning of CTL's The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Greater Hartford Arts Council 860.247.8996 exciting 2018 Season of Events! We have Dunbar, and the American Revolution (Oxford Griebel Family Fund at HFPG [email protected] ctlandmarks.org many important preservation projects slated University Press, 2017), by Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Nathan Hale Fife & Drum Corps for the year– we can’t wait to share our received the 2017 Journal of the American Revolution Astrid & Fred Hanzalek Fund II at HFPG progress with you this summer. Many thanks Book of the Year award. Anderson, a 1976 University of Hartford Courant Officers to all of you who made annual fund gifts and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. Frederick C. Copeland, Jr., Cha ir Connecticut graduate and recipient of the 2010 Cornelius O'Leary, Vice Chair & Governance Chair helped us reach our goal– we greatly Distinguished Alumni Award, is a professor of history at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Ja mes D. Parr y, Vice Chair & Finance Chair appreciate your support of our mission. the University of Colorado, Boulder who first became Hartford News acquainted with Nathan Hale while growing up in Hoffman Auto Group Ja mes An ders on, Treasurer We’ve had a busy winter! On Sat., Feb. 24th we celebrated Black Beth Iacampo, Secretary & Personnel Chair Connecticut. She recalled passing the signs for the Hale Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman History Month at the Isham-Terry House with Yale historian Allegra di Homestead on her travels to and from UConn. Her Foundation, Inc. Bonaventura's For Adam's Sake presentation on enslaved third- Tru s undergraduate studies introduced her to lesser-known Shepherd Monson Holcombe Fund at HFPG John Bon generation New Englander Adam Jackson, who lived for more than Connecticut loyalist Moses Dunbar, who met the same fate Institute of Museum & Library Services Carla Cabrera three decades at the site of Connecticut Landmarks’ Hempsted Houses KeyBank David Canton, Ph.D. in New London. Connecticut College’s Dr. David Canton addressed as Nathan at the end of the hangman’s noose after failure to complete a dangerous Chester Kitchings Family Foundation Rohan A. Frm an the relevance of Adam Jackson’s story to understanding the history of mission. In her new book, Anderson compares and contrasts the lives of patriot Hale Kitchings Family Fund at Community Susan Horn enslaved people in New England, and the broader implications on the and loyalist Dunbar, using biographical studies of the men to explore the complicated Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Jay Levin historiography of African American studies today. local social and political issues which affected loyalties and beliefs during the Du y Mc Ma ha n Revolutionary War and which are often diminished under the simplified dichotomy The Last Green Valley Dr. Troy Monr In March, the last two third-grade field trips to the Hempsted Houses of “patriot and loyalist.” Lips, Rousseau Wealth Management Dia l Parro took place as part of New London Maritime Society's Local History William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Pat ric k L. Pinnell, Colleions Chair Program which brought 300+ students to six historic sites during the FOR KIDS & FAMILIES NewAlliance Foundation Todd Regan school year. The Nathan Hale Homestead will open its doors to school On the Farm, at the Market (Henry Holt & Company, Nick's Country Kitchen Melissa Roy rd groups for the spring beginning on May 3 welcoming projected 2016), by G. Brian Karas, is geared toward kids aged Old Bethlehem Historical Society Anthony J. Salerno, Jr. students for programs in the newly renovated Hale Barns this year. th Old Hill Garden James Wu infant - 4 grade. The two-part picture book follows food from growers and producers to a market, and then to a Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation This season is bursting with activity and programming that you won’t Central Office Staff locally owned and operated restaurant. With its hints Frank Loomis Palmer Fund want to miss, including walking tours, garden programs, and the return of Sheryl N. Hack, Executive Direo r about the importance of not quitting until a job is done, People's United Insurance Agency the Coventry Farmers’ Market. Our 2018 Special Events kick-off with Jana Colacino, Hartford Educator this sincerely illustrated book will not only pique your Pirie Associates Architects, LLC Lilac Girls with Martha Hall Kelly on Sat., May 19th. If you haven't yet Mary Cockram, Grants Wrer & Adminirator kid’s interest in veggies, but it will make your mouth Robinson & Cole, LLP met the New York Times bestselling author, you're in for a real treat at the Jamie-Lynn Fontaine Connell, water and inspire a visit to the Coventry Farmers’ Vernon D. & Florence E. Roosa Family Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden. On Sat., June 9th, the Hempsted Marketing & Development Manager Market at the Nathan Hale Homestead! Ask for it at your local library or visit Foundation at HFPG Amanda Cooper, Marketing & Development Assiant Houses present Juneteenth from 12 to 4 pm with the NAACP-New SBM Charitable Foundation th smile.amazon.com and choose Connecticut Landmarks. Erin Malueg, Colleions Manager & Proje Manager, London Branch. On Fri, June 15 , we will once again celebrate summer Society of the Cincinnati in the State of CT Palmer Warner House with Cocktails in the Hatheway Garden from 6 to 9 pm. Soroptimists International of Greater Joseph Pukas, Proper Manager Waterbury Kerri Zongol, Executive Assiant & Office Manager Families will enjoy the 7th Annual Fairy Festival at the Bellamy- continued from page 1 Suffield Chamber of Commerce Ferriday House & Garden on Sat., June 16th and the return of the house and that Dinah might have slept in the bedroom off of the kitchen of the 1728 Suffield Garden Club Museum Staff Sunset Sounds Concert Series in the beautiful Butler-McCook Garden addition. McGill will be joined by community members and will speak at the Town of Coventry George McCleary, Program Planner & Se Horticulturi, June through September. The first Vintage Base Ball Game in over a th Travelers Be ll am y- Ferriday House & Garden century will take place at the Nathan Hale Homestead on Sat., June Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 9 . True Value of Bethlehem Nikki Todaro, Se Adminiration Assiant 30th at 1 pm. We have opportunities for young people to engage with The United Illuminating Company & Program Liaison, Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden history at our Hempsted, Hale and Phelps-Hatheway Colonial Camps. Our Juneteenth Celebration also features a dramatic performance of Joan Jackson by Patricia and Charles Walker Family Fund Ailn Novick, Se Adminirator & Proje Manager, Teens can apply for our Hartford Youth Employment Program, or join storyteller Tammy Denease, non-profit tabling, food provided by the OIC, music by at HFPG He mp ed Ho us es our youth groups at the Hale Homestead or the Hempsted Houses. Shades of Joy and DJ Frank Lo, a performance by the Lion’s Den Dancers, games and Anne Marie Charland, Se Adminirator, art activities for families, tours of the houses, and much more. On Sunday, June 10th, Webster Bank Nathan Hale Homeead We can’t wait to see you at our properties this season. join us for a church service at 11:30 am by In His Presence Ministries followed by a West Hartford Garden Club Marilyn Yarrington, Events Coordinator, concert of church choirs at 1:00 pm. Westford Hill Distillers Nathan Hale Homeead With best regards, Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C. Lynn Mervosh, Se Adminirator, Willimantic Waste Paper Co., Inc. Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Accounting Resources, Inc., Consulting Bookkpers Like us on Facebook Foundation Inc. Ra Rivera/Love & Pop, Graphic Designer facebook.com/ConnecticutLandmarks Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at HFPG Sheryl Hack, Executive Director Page 2 Page 11

109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 2 5/1/18 3:36 PM 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 Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at HFPG Bank of America Bethlehem Christmas Town Festival Bethlehem Land Trust Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation Budd Family Fund at HFPG Cafémantic J. Gladwin Cannon Trust Capital Community College Arnold E. and Mary I. Carlson Fund at HFPG CTL Receives Prestigious AIA Chubb Group of Insurance Companies City of Hartford Design Award for Nathan Hale City of New London Saluting Our Hers Opens Mrs. James Sage Coburn Fund at HFPG Homestead Barns Renovation Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut n September, Connecticut December 4th at the AIA’s Design CT Community Foundation Landmarks received an honorable Awards Ceremony at TheaterWorks at the Nathan Hale Homeead CT Department of Economic & Community mention from the American Institute Hartford. CTL’s Executive Director he 2018 season brings with it new programs, collaborations and an exhibit that Development I th st of Architects (AIA) Connecticut Chapter Sheryl Hack states, “It’s an honor to focuses on Military Service. From May 5 through May 31 , American Flags will Connecticut Explored at the Connecticut 2017 Design Awards receive this design award on behalf of create a Flag Field for Heroes in honor of military service members, veterans and CT Forest & Park Association in the category of Built – Preservation, Connecticut Landmarks’s Board and T th heroes. An Opening Ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 5 at 2 pm, featuring a CT Historic Gardens Adaptation or Restoration Project for staff, and our design team. We are flag raising ceremony by the Coventry VFW and the American Legion, and A POW flag CT Humanities the Nathan Hale Homestead Barns delighted that the Connecticut Chapter ceremony by the Coventry VFW. All are invited to this free event. Flags are currently on CT Natural Gas (CNG) Project. The Barns Project was the final of the American Institute of Architects sale for $10 and can be purchased by contacting 860.742.6917 or [email protected]. CT State Historic Preservation Office phase of the Nathan Hale Homestead continues to recognize our work to CT Trust for Historic Preservation Preservation, Restoration & steward – and to continue to use and Inside the house, join the Hale Homestead staff for a conversational house tour and view Coventry Farmers' Market at Hale Homestead Reinterpretation Project, which adaptively re-use – Connecticut’s the Saluting our Heroes exhibit, highlighting military service and local heroes from the Cummings & Good Graphic Design included: Homestead restoration, re- important historic properties.” Revolutionary War to the present day. Uniforms and artifacts from different eras and Paul H. Eddy and Elizabeth J. Normen Fund interpretation, and creation of new branches of service will be on display until July 15th. Both programs are presented in The Project Team included James Galey at HFPG school and youth programs; collaboration with the Coventry Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Coventry American and Charles Ahles from Fuss & O‘Neill Anthony & Elizabeth Enders Fund of the preservation and adaptive reuse of the Legion. Community Foundation of Southeastern CT Homestead’s ell to create a new Visitor Design Build, James Vance of James Vance and Associates Architects, CTL Ensworth Charitable Foundation Center and Museum Store; and The Coventry Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars was founded in 1989. The VFW traces its Executive Director Sheryl Hack, and Eversource preservation and renovation of the Hale roots back to 1899 when veterans founded local organizations to secure rights and benefits CTL Trustees James Parry and Patrick The Federal Restaurant barns to house multi-purpose program for their service. The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is a non-profit veterans’ Pinnell, FAIA. Special thanks to Trustee Ferriday Fund at BNY Mellon and event space. service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from the Dusty McMahan for his work on the First National Bank of Suffield active, guard and reserve forces. Stanley D. & Hinda N. Fisher Fund at HFPG The award was presented on Monday, AIA application. Friends of Suffield The American Legion Post 52 of Coventry began in 1921; the American Legion was The Fund for Greater Hartford chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919. It is the largest wartime veterans’ service Fuss & O'Neill Connecticut Landmarks’ New Members organization, committed to mentoring youth and sponsorship of wholesome programs in Richard P. Garmany Fund at HFPG our communities, advocating patriotism and honor, promoting strong national security, and Peggy Bliss, Carol Denehy, Tamara Fagan, Dian Friedman, Madeleine & Marion & Ellsworth Grant Fund at HFPG continued devotion to our fellow service members and veterans. William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund Priscilla Hexter, Jenny & Peter Holland, Anna Hollister, Margaret Hunt, Jonathan Lincoln, Ruth Ann Loder, Cheryl Pelletier & Veronica Verklin. Page 10 Page 3

109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 3 5/1/18 3:36 PM Summits of the Mid-Atlantic Vintage Base Ball League will play by the means & For event updates and more information, visit ctlandmarks.org. rules of yesteryear. Doubleheader – games last 1.5 –2.5 hrs each. Concessions Summer House & shares tea’s significant available for purchase. $5 suggested social & political role during the donation per person. Registration Revolutionary War & after. The traditional recommended at 860.742.6917 or tea service features delicious treats & young [email protected]. guests may don period costumes. $25 per Mon. – Fri., July 23 – 27, 10 am – 3 pm adult; $15 per child. Reservations required Colonial Camp at [email protected]. Travel back to the 18th century for a week of summer fun. Campers will learn about Sat., June 2, 1:30 – 3 pm Rain date: Sun., June 3 18th-century life through hands on activities each day & make crafts to take CT Trails Day: Historic Main Street & Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Old Burying Ground Walking Tour home at the end of the week. Campers will 55 South Main Street learn to spin wool, embroider, write with Walk 1 mile down our historic Main Street Suffield, CT 06078 8 & enjoy a close-up view of the beauty, quill pens, learn 18th-century games, dip 860.668.0055 detail & expanse of the homes, churches candles, make homemade ice cream & so [email protected] much more! For children ages 8-12; $200 & the Old Burying Ground. Suffield's per week/ $175 CTL Members. historic district boasts numerous Open for tours: May through Oct. architectural gems from the 18th & 19th Registration required at 860.742.6917 or Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm [email protected]. centuries. Part of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s CT Trails Day. Free; CT Landmarks Presents at New England Fri., May 4, 5 – 7 pm registration appreciated. Exhibition Opening: Lynda Montefusco Museum Association’s Annual Conference Please join us in welcoming our 2018 Fri., June 15, 6 – 9 pm artist, Lynda Montefusco! Lynda is the Cocktails in the Hatheway Garden n October 25th, Connecticut Landmarks’ Executive visceral connections to the past, museums and historic sites owner of A Stroke of Color Art Studio in Savor farm-to-table offerings by The Suffield where she provides artistic Director Sheryl Hack, Hempsted Project Manager are ideal venues for fostering dialogue and civic Federal & signature cocktails at CTL’s instruction to people of all ages. Enjoy her summer event in the lush garden. All OAileen Novick and Palmer-Warner Project engagement. work exhibited at the Phelps-Hatheway proceeds benefit the Phelps-Hatheway Manager Erin Malueg, along with Braden Paynter of the House & Garden Visitor Center & be sure House & Garden. Registration required at International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, presented a How did we get started? CTL was in search of methods to to check out her website 860.247.8996 x 23. www.astrokeofcolorstudio.com. Free. session at the New England Museum Association convey the difficult stories residing at our properties: a Palmer-Warner House Sun., July 8, 12 pm conference. The session, Why Should I Care? Historic history of northern slavery; the colonial speculation of 307 Town Street 7 May – Sept., 1:30 – 3 pm House Museums as Sites of Conscience, Engaging Visitors Native American lands; an individual who was hanged as East Haddam, CT 06423 Declaration of Independence 1st Saturday Attic Tours Join us as community participants read with Difficult Histories, sought to share the lessons we the first spy of the American Revolution; a professor who 860.247.8996 Dates: May 5, June 2, July 7, Aug. 4 [email protected] aloud dramatic the Declaration of have learned through the process of research, studied the homeless to understand their lives and & Sept. 1 Independence. Guests include: WNPR’s reinterpretation, and work with International Coalition of developed a 25-year correspondence and friendship with a Join us again for our ever-popular attic Where We Live host Lucy Nalpathanchil, Join Connecticut Landmarks staff for an tours! On the first Saturday of each month, Sites of Conscience to help our organization remain “hobo”; and use them as bridges to address contemporary exclusive look inside the Palmer-Warner Suffield First Selectman Melissa Mack, venture beyond the stanchions with State Representative Tami Zawistowski, relevant to the public. social justice issues. For example, how does the history of House before it is open to the public museum interpreters for a rare, behind- Director of Kent Memorial Library Jackie through special behind-the-scenes tours. Connecticut slavery affect our society today? How can we the-scenes look of the Phelps’ servant & Hemond, Town Historian Lester Smith, & Experience the collection of letters & The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience take action to make our society more equitable? These are attic spaces. View objects & collections our young Colonial Campers! Free. (ICSC) is a dynamic global network of museums (230 not conversations our staff could successfully navigate diaries, photographs, historic furnishings, & from the 18th to the early 20th century. decorative arts used to reconstruct the lives Regular admission applies. Mon. – Fri., July 30 – Aug. 3, member institutions in 55 countries), historic sites and without training. These are difficult topics, and while we of Frederic Palmer & Howard Metzger. 10 am – 3 pm memory initiatives that inspire millions of people each year want to engage all of our visitors in these conversations, we Explore the grounds to see the constructed Sat., May 12, 9 am – 3 pm Colonial Adventure Camp to explore the parallels between past and present, build want to be sure that we are doing it well. By using the landscape Howard & Frederic created. May Market Welcome to the 18th century! Journey back bridges of understanding, and take action on pressing social methods of ICSC, we have begun the process of providing Goodbye winter, hello spring! Now in its in time with us to Colonial Suffield. Don a Tours are offered May – Nov.: 41st year, the Suffield Garden Club’s May issues. Members commit to interpreting history through interpretive staff with tools and methodologies to st st rd period costume & participate in historic 1 Sat., 11 am – 4 pm, & on the 1 & 3 Market officially marks the beginning of memory projects, engaging in programs that stimulate introduce, encourage, and facilitate meaningful Tues. 10 am – 2 pm. activities at the Phelps-Hatheway House. dialogue and promote humanitarian values, and conversations with our guests. the planting season. Beautify your garden Learn about trade & westward expansion with a variety of plants, trees & shrubs. while signing important documents & encouraging opportunities for the public to take action. For groups of 8 or less; $35 per person/ Win the drawing, buy homemade desserts, $25 for CTL members. Please reserve maps with a quill pen. Dye wool & cloth This method of facilitating dialogue by using ISCS training or find a unique Mother’s Day gift. Free; for knitting & sewing, then try your hand ICSC employs dialogue as an interpretive strategy to was implemented last season with a few staff at each of our your tour at least 7 days in advance by regular admission applies for house tour. contacting 860.247.8996 x 10 or at spinning & weaving, & enjoy a snack enable visitors to access larger historical and humanities properties participating. It will be utilized by all staff at all with homemade butter. A special surprise [email protected]. Sun., May 13, 2 pm themes. It applies this framework to enduring social issues of our sites this season. This conference was a chance to All tour proceeds benefit the Palmer- will await all on the final day: music & Mother’s Day Tea dancing will fill the air! For children ages addressed by historic sites and museums to foster an share our approach with peer organizations and to gain Warner Visitor Welcome, Program & Celebrate spring & our beautiful lilacs! exchange of ideas anchored in scholarship. As trusted insight from other museum professionals on how they are Exhibit Center Project. 8-12; $200 per week; $175 CTL Members. Mrs. Phelps offers a light tea in the Registration required at educational and community spaces containing human and implementing similar initiatives. [email protected].

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109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 4 5/1/18 3:36 PM Sat., June 9, 12 – 4 pm Sat., May 5 – Sun., July 15 Juneteenth Festival Saluting Our Heroes Juneteenth highlights the African- An exhibit highlighting military service & American history of the Hempsted House local heroes from the Revolutionary War to & the surrounding neighborhood with the modern day. View uniforms & artifacts NAACP-New London Branch. Come for from various branches of the service. In storytelling, drumming, gospel music, collaboration with the Coventry Veterans of dance—& a dash of history—with art Foreign Wars and the Coventry American making opportunities for children & adults Legion. For more information, contact & tabling by New London’s non-profit 860.742.6917 or [email protected]. community. Free, sponsored by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund Nathan Hale Homestead Sat., June 2, 10 – 11:30 am & the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. 2299 South Street CT Trails Day Coventry, CT 06238 6 Hale Homestead Landscape Tour: Sun., June 10, 11:30 am – 4 pm 860.742.6917 Reading an 18th-Century Farm Juneteenth Festival [email protected] Join Nathan Hale Homestead staff for an Gather under the tent on the Hempsted easy stroll through the Hale Family Farm lawn for Church Service with In His Open for tours: May through Oct. & into the Nathan Hale State Forest on the Presence Ministries from 11:30 am – May: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm “road to Norwich,” an 18th-century dirt 12:30 pm. Gospel Choir Concert to follow June – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm; road that the Hale Family used to drive from 1 – 3 pm. Sun., 11 am – 4 pm their livestock to market. Heavy rain Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm cancels. Part of the Connecticut Forest & Sun., July 1, 2 pm Tours start on the hour. Park Association’s CT Trails Day. Free. Declaration of Independence Open Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Registration appreciated at 860.742.6917 Join us for a dramatic reading of the Day & Columbus Day or [email protected]. Declaration of Independence. Free, The Hale Homestead grounds are open sponsored by The Chester Kitchings year round from dawn to dusk. Sun., June 3 – Oct. 28, 11 am – 2 pm Family Foundation. Coventry Farmers’ Market Sat., May 5 – Thur., May 31 th Mon. – Fri., July 30 –Aug. 3, 9 am – 1 pm Join us for the 15 season of the Coventry Flag Field for Heroes Farmers’ Market! Hosted on the grounds Hempsted History Camp Visit the Homestead during operating Children will step back in time & explore of the Hale Homestead in Coventry. Free Capital Community College Explores the History of Medicine hours to purchase an American Flag in admission to the first floor of the House & history in our Hempsted History Camp. honor of a military service member, They will experience what life was like in family-friendly history activities. Visit onnecticut Landmarks welcomed over 140 institutions, landmarks, and neighborhoods as an veteran or hero. Join us for an opening coventryfarmersmarket.org for more the past through, hands-on activities. th students from Capital Community College’s extension of the college. The team expanded the ceremony on May 5 at 2 pm. Flags will information and to sign up for the weekly Children will see & hear from great be on display for the month of May. In Nursing 102 curriculum for 2018, using storytellers for a fun & educational week. newsletter. C collaboration with the Coventry Veterans classes to the Isham- “This program is a true humanities and health science feedback from students’ Scholarships are available for New London of Foreign Wars and the Coventry Sat., June 30, 1 pm Terry House this April. collaboration and a great example of how significant 2017 experiences. Faculty- residents & returning youth! Sponsored by American Legion. Cost per flag is $10; to the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. $50 per Vintage Base Ball Game A team of CCC Nursing historical sites can be used creatively in higher led sessions highlight purchase, contact 860.742.6917 or Bring your lawn chairs & join us to child, ages 7-12. Register at 860.443.7949 [email protected]. faculty led by Nancy education. Our students marvel at the Isham-Terry medical and nursing care or [email protected]. witness a vintage base ball game. The th Providence Grays & the Bouckville Casey, Jessica Palozie House – it’s like they are stepping back in time to from the early 20 century and Alicia Zupan, and witness a completely different way of practicing and compare it to modern our Hartford Educator, medicine. It really opens their minds!” day care by exploring the Become a CTL Member! Jana Colacino, debuted – Jeﬀ Partridge, Hartford Heritage Project Director implements and treatments the program in April of Dr. Isham, while 8 2017 as part of CCC’s Hartford Heritage Project, students experience the history of this North End which utilizes Hartford's rich and diverse cultural gem through tours led by CTL staff. 5 2 6 3 Isham-Terry House 1 211 High Street 5 Hartford, CT 06103 860.247.8996 x 12 7 [email protected] 4 Open for tours by appointment May – Oct.: 1st Sat., 9:30 – 11 am, & 3rd Thur., 10 am – 3 pm. Your ticket to Travel Please reserve your tour at least 7 days in advance by contacting 860.247.8996 x rough Four Centuries 10, or [email protected]. of Conneicut Hiory.

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109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 5 5/1/18 3:36 PM Thur., May 10, 5:30 – 7:30 pm McCook Garden is dog friendly- bring the Connecticut Landmarks’ historic museums are Cultural Cocktail Hour whole family! Free, sponsored by the Support open for regular tours from May through October. Join us on the 2nd Thursday of the month Richard P. Garmany Fund at HFPG & the Let’s Admission is $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, for the opening of Lisa Pressamarita’s art Greater Hartford Arts Council. Conneicut Landmarks students & teachers; $5 for town residents & exhibition Lions & Leopards & live music. Free with a suggested $5 food & Thur., June 21, 12 – 1:30 pm Your gift will strengthen our ability to 2018 children ages 6 -18; free for children younger than per beverage donation. Make Music Day Hartford sustain our properties and to engage 6 & CTL Members. A special family price of $25 Hartford will join cities worldwide on the all audiences with the stories of our longest day of the year to celebrate its great state. is available for families with two adults & any Sat., May 12, 9 am – 2 pm South End History Tour FIRST Make Music Day! Bring a picnic number of children. To register for programs, or for Join Historic Hartford’s Bill Hosley & lunch & your dancing shoes to enjoy The more information, please contact the museum CTL Staff to tour the historic South End of Guinea Pigs, a folk-rock band with www.ctlandmarks.org Go! directly or visit www.ctlandmarks.org. Hartford. Visit Cedar Hill Cemetery, eclectic covers & originals. Family & dog Calendar of events historic Coltsville, Trinity College, friendly event! Free, sponsored by the Hartford Hospital’s The Institute of Living Greater Hartford Arts Council. Museum & the Olmsted-designed Sun., June 24, 12 – 4 pm lilac walk only. Reservations required, Sun., June 24, 1 – 4 pm grounds. Our last stop is the Butler- CT Historic Gardens Day contact [email protected] CT Historic Gardens Day McCook House & Garden for a tour & a Visit the Butler-McCook House & Garden to register. Garden Tours at 1 & 3 pm casual lunch provided in the historic Jacob & walk through our historic Jacob Discover the treasures of the Bellamy- Weidenmann-designed garden. Bus Weidenmann Garden installed by Eliza Sun., June 3, 1 – 4 pm Ferriday estate. Stroll through the formal transportation will be provided between Butler McCook & her sister Mary in 1865. CT Trails Day Walk parterre garden designed 1915-1918 by sites. $40/$35 for CTL Members. Today the garden is lovingly maintained with Bethlehem Land Trust Eliza Mitchell Ferriday. Grounds Reservations required at 860.247.8996 by the West Hartford Garden Club. Take a 1.2 mile stroll through the Ferriday admission is free; regular admission x12 or ctlandmarks.org. Grounds admission is free; regular Garden & the Bethlehem Land Trust’s applies for historic house tour. Sun., June 3, 12 – 1:30 pm admission applies for historic house tour. Hempsted Houses Bellamy Preserve. Explore the history, flora 11 Hempstead Street 4 & fauna of these two contiguous parcels CT Trails Day: Discovering Historic Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden Main Street Hartford New London, CT 06320 preserved by Caroline Ferriday. Meet at the 860.443.7949 9 Main Street North Bellamy-Ferriday Visitor Center. Part of the Take an easy 1.5 mile tour on the Bethlehem, CT 06751 1 sidewalks of Main Street to learn how the [email protected] Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s Open for tours: May through Oct. 203.266.7596 CT Trails Day. Free. Registration city has evolved by viewing some of Main [email protected] Street’s significant structures: City Hall, May – Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm recommended at 203.266.7596 or Tours during regular operating hours [email protected]. Wadsworth Atheneum, Travelers Tower, Open for tours: May through Oct. Old State House, Center Church and the are free for New London residents! May – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Ancient Burying Ground. Part of the Sat., June 16, 12 – 4 pm Sat., June 2, 2 – 3:30 pm Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm Rain date: Sun., June 17 Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s Open on Memorial Day, Labor Day & CT Trails Day. Free. Reservations CT Trails Day Walking Tour: Fairy Festival Hempsted Historic District Columbus Day Calling all fairies, elves, gnomes, pixies, Butler-McCook House & Garden recommended at 860.247.8996 x12 or Buttolph-Williams House Join us for a walking tour of one of New Tours start on the hour. leprechauns, woodland & mystical 396 Main Street [email protected]. 249 Broad Street London’s first African-American creatures! Visit the vendors, see the craft Hartford, CT 06103 2 3 Wethersfield, CT 06109 neighborhoods. Hear the stories of the Sat., May 19, 11 am – 5 pm fairies, make ribbon rings & fairy garland 860.522.1806 Thur., June 14, July 12, Aug. 9 860.529.0612 people who lived in this neighborhood – Lilac Girls Event with Martha Hall Kelly crowns, paint your own garden stones & [email protected] & Sept. 13, 6 – 7:30 pm [email protected] residents have included slaveholders, civic Join New York Times bestselling author participate in a parade. Prizes for the fairy Sunset Sounds Garden Concert Series Bring a picnic dinner & enjoy music in the leaders, abolitionists, a Revolutionary War Martha Hall Kelly at the lovely Bellamy- houses awarded. Food & drinks for sale Open for tours: May through Dec. Open for tours: May through Oct. Ferriday House & Garden, the Butler-McCook historic garden at the hero & at least two enslaved people. Stay from the Soroptimists of Greater May – Sept.: Fri. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. & Sat., afterward for cookies, lemonade & a Connecticut home of Caroline Ferriday. Waterbury. $12 adults; $7 children 3-12 (2 Oct. – Dec.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm Amos Bull House. Enjoy a featured artist’s exhibit each month! Free tours of the first 10 am – 4 pm; chance to talk more about the area. Part of Enjoy a tour of the Bellamy-Ferriday & under free). Registration required for Tours during regular operation hours Sun., 1– 4 pm; last tour begins at 3:30 pm House, a garden walk featuring the floor from 5:30 – 6 pm. The Butler- the Connecticut Forest & Park fairy house contest, visit ctlandmarks.org or are free for Hartford residents! Purchase tickets at the Webb House. Association’s CT Trails Day. Free. exquisite lilac collection & a book signing email [email protected] The Butler-McCook Garden & lawn are with Martha in Caroline Ferriday's for application. open year-round from dusk to dawn. kitchen. Includes light refreshments & Here’s what CTL Staﬀ Can’t Wait to Share with You! author presentation from 3 – 5 pm. Registration required at 860.247.8996 x23 Sponsored by A timeless favorite, the Sunset Sounds Grab a date and don your festive attire for or ctlandmarks.org. Butler-McCook House & Garden the Connecticut 12 – 4 pm. Free admission. Garden Concert Series returns to the dancing in the summer house to benefit Butler-McCook House & Garden. Our educational programming at Cocktails Sun., May 27, 2 – 4 pm Office of Tourism, this Isham-Terry House downtown oasis has live music, in the Hatheway Garden. Lilac House Tour & Garden Walk 10 am – 12 pm. Enjoy a house tour focused on Caroline one-day exciting local art and room for little 2-for-1 admission for CT Residents. NEW! How about a Vintage Base Ferriday’s charitable work, take an statewide event ones to run in the grass. Ball Game with your sports extended garden walk featuring her is designed to Nathan Hale Homestead For a grown-up day out, the Lilac enthusiast at the Nathan Hale exquisite lilac collection with our site showcase Connecticut’s diverse world 12 – 4 pm. Free admission. Girls Event with Martha Kelly at the Homestead? Bring your comfy lawn Horticulturist & receive a special pewter of history, art & tourism. A great way Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden is a chairs & don’t worry about stadium ornament made in Caroline’s honor. $30; for residents to discover, or rediscover, Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden $20 for house & garden tour only; $12 for 1 – 4 pm. Free admission. once in a lifetime experience. We’ve tested traffic– the commute is a scenic country drive. all that is happening in our state. this event with our moms and it’s approved!

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109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 6 5/1/18 3:36 PM Thur., May 10, 5:30 – 7:30 pm McCook Garden is dog friendly- bring the Connecticut Landmarks’ historic museums are Cultural Cocktail Hour whole family! Free, sponsored by the Support open for regular tours from May through October. Join us on the 2nd Thursday of the month Richard P. Garmany Fund at HFPG & the Let’s Admission is $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, for the opening of Lisa Pressamarita’s art Greater Hartford Arts Council. Conneicut Landmarks students & teachers; $5 for town residents & exhibition Lions & Leopards & live music. Free with a suggested $5 food & Thur., June 21, 12 – 1:30 pm Your gift will strengthen our ability to 2018 children ages 6 -18; free for children younger than per beverage donation. Make Music Day Hartford sustain our properties and to engage 6 & CTL Members. A special family price of $25 Hartford will join cities worldwide on the all audiences with the stories of our longest day of the year to celebrate its great state. is available for families with two adults & any Sat., May 12, 9 am – 2 pm South End History Tour FIRST Make Music Day! Bring a picnic number of children. To register for programs, or for Join Historic Hartford’s Bill Hosley & lunch & your dancing shoes to enjoy The more information, please contact the museum CTL Staff to tour the historic South End of Guinea Pigs, a folk-rock band with www.ctlandmarks.org Go! directly or visit www.ctlandmarks.org. Hartford. Visit Cedar Hill Cemetery, eclectic covers & originals. Family & dog Calendar of events historic Coltsville, Trinity College, friendly event! Free, sponsored by the Hartford Hospital’s The Institute of Living Greater Hartford Arts Council. Museum & the Olmsted-designed Sun., June 24, 12 – 4 pm lilac walk only. Reservations required, Sun., June 24, 1 – 4 pm grounds. Our last stop is the Butler- CT Historic Gardens Day contact [email protected] CT Historic Gardens Day McCook House & Garden for a tour & a Visit the Butler-McCook House & Garden to register. Garden Tours at 1 & 3 pm casual lunch provided in the historic Jacob & walk through our historic Jacob Discover the treasures of the Bellamy- Weidenmann-designed garden. Bus Weidenmann Garden installed by Eliza Sun., June 3, 1 – 4 pm Ferriday estate. Stroll through the formal transportation will be provided between Butler McCook & her sister Mary in 1865. CT Trails Day Walk parterre garden designed 1915-1918 by sites. $40/$35 for CTL Members. Today the garden is lovingly maintained with Bethlehem Land Trust Eliza Mitchell Ferriday. Grounds Reservations required at 860.247.8996 by the West Hartford Garden Club. Take a 1.2 mile stroll through the Ferriday admission is free; regular admission x12 or ctlandmarks.org. Grounds admission is free; regular Garden & the Bethlehem Land Trust’s applies for historic house tour. Sun., June 3, 12 – 1:30 pm admission applies for historic house tour. Hempsted Houses Bellamy Preserve. Explore the history, flora 11 Hempstead Street 4 & fauna of these two contiguous parcels CT Trails Day: Discovering Historic Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden Main Street Hartford New London, CT 06320 preserved by Caroline Ferriday. Meet at the 860.443.7949 9 Main Street North Bellamy-Ferriday Visitor Center. Part of the Take an easy 1.5 mile tour on the Bethlehem, CT 06751 1 sidewalks of Main Street to learn how the [email protected] Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s Open for tours: May through Oct. 203.266.7596 CT Trails Day. Free. Registration city has evolved by viewing some of Main [email protected] Street’s significant structures: City Hall, May – Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm recommended at 203.266.7596 or Tours during regular operating hours [email protected]. Wadsworth Atheneum, Travelers Tower, Open for tours: May through Oct. Old State House, Center Church and the are free for New London residents! May – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Ancient Burying Ground. Part of the Sat., June 16, 12 – 4 pm Sat., June 2, 2 – 3:30 pm Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm Rain date: Sun., June 17 Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s Open on Memorial Day, Labor Day & CT Trails Day. Free. Reservations CT Trails Day Walking Tour: Fairy Festival Hempsted Historic District Columbus Day Calling all fairies, elves, gnomes, pixies, Butler-McCook House & Garden recommended at 860.247.8996 x12 or Buttolph-Williams House Join us for a walking tour of one of New Tours start on the hour. leprechauns, woodland & mystical 396 Main Street [email protected]. 249 Broad Street London’s first African-American creatures! Visit the vendors, see the craft Hartford, CT 06103 2 3 Wethersfield, CT 06109 neighborhoods. Hear the stories of the Sat., May 19, 11 am – 5 pm fairies, make ribbon rings & fairy garland 860.522.1806 Thur., June 14, July 12, Aug. 9 860.529.0612 people who lived in this neighborhood – Lilac Girls Event with Martha Hall Kelly crowns, paint your own garden stones & [email protected] & Sept. 13, 6 – 7:30 pm [email protected] residents have included slaveholders, civic Join New York Times bestselling author participate in a parade. Prizes for the fairy Sunset Sounds Garden Concert Series Bring a picnic dinner & enjoy music in the leaders, abolitionists, a Revolutionary War Martha Hall Kelly at the lovely Bellamy- houses awarded. Food & drinks for sale Open for tours: May through Dec. Open for tours: May through Oct. Ferriday House & Garden, the Butler-McCook historic garden at the hero & at least two enslaved people. Stay from the Soroptimists of Greater May – Sept.: Fri. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. & Sat., afterward for cookies, lemonade & a Connecticut home of Caroline Ferriday. Waterbury. $12 adults; $7 children 3-12 (2 Oct. – Dec.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm Amos Bull House. Enjoy a featured artist’s exhibit each month! Free tours of the first 10 am – 4 pm; chance to talk more about the area. Part of Enjoy a tour of the Bellamy-Ferriday & under free). Registration required for Tours during regular operation hours Sun., 1– 4 pm; last tour begins at 3:30 pm House, a garden walk featuring the floor from 5:30 – 6 pm. The Butler- the Connecticut Forest & Park fairy house contest, visit ctlandmarks.org or are free for Hartford residents! Purchase tickets at the Webb House. Association’s CT Trails Day. Free. exquisite lilac collection & a book signing email [email protected] The Butler-McCook Garden & lawn are with Martha in Caroline Ferriday's for application. open year-round from dusk to dawn. kitchen. Includes light refreshments & Here’s what CTL Staﬀ Can’t Wait to Share with You! author presentation from 3 – 5 pm. Registration required at 860.247.8996 x23 Sponsored by A timeless favorite, the Sunset Sounds Grab a date and don your festive attire for or ctlandmarks.org. Butler-McCook House & Garden the Connecticut 12 – 4 pm. Free admission. Garden Concert Series returns to the dancing in the summer house to benefit Butler-McCook House & Garden. Our educational programming at Cocktails Sun., May 27, 2 – 4 pm Office of Tourism, this Isham-Terry House downtown oasis has live music, in the Hatheway Garden. Lilac House Tour & Garden Walk 10 am – 12 pm. Enjoy a house tour focused on Caroline one-day exciting local art and room for little 2-for-1 admission for CT Residents. NEW! How about a Vintage Base Ferriday’s charitable work, take an statewide event ones to run in the grass. Ball Game with your sports extended garden walk featuring her is designed to Nathan Hale Homestead For a grown-up day out, the Lilac enthusiast at the Nathan Hale exquisite lilac collection with our site showcase Connecticut’s diverse world 12 – 4 pm. Free admission. Girls Event with Martha Kelly at the Homestead? Bring your comfy lawn Horticulturist & receive a special pewter of history, art & tourism. A great way Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden is a chairs & don’t worry about stadium ornament made in Caroline’s honor. $30; for residents to discover, or rediscover, Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden $20 for house & garden tour only; $12 for 1 – 4 pm. Free admission. once in a lifetime experience. We’ve tested traffic– the commute is a scenic country drive. all that is happening in our state. this event with our moms and it’s approved!

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109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 7 5/1/18 3:36 PM Sat., June 9, 12 – 4 pm Sat., May 5 – Sun., July 15 Juneteenth Festival Saluting Our Heroes Juneteenth highlights the African- An exhibit highlighting military service & American history of the Hempsted House local heroes from the Revolutionary War to & the surrounding neighborhood with the modern day. View uniforms & artifacts NAACP-New London Branch. Come for from various branches of the service. In storytelling, drumming, gospel music, collaboration with the Coventry Veterans of dance—& a dash of history—with art Foreign Wars and the Coventry American making opportunities for children & adults Legion. For more information, contact & tabling by New London’s non-profit 860.742.6917 or [email protected]. community. Free, sponsored by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund Nathan Hale Homestead Sat., June 2, 10 – 11:30 am & the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. 2299 South Street CT Trails Day Coventry, CT 06238 6 Hale Homestead Landscape Tour: Sun., June 10, 11:30 am – 4 pm 860.742.6917 Reading an 18th-Century Farm Juneteenth Festival [email protected] Join Nathan Hale Homestead staff for an Gather under the tent on the Hempsted easy stroll through the Hale Family Farm lawn for Church Service with In His Open for tours: May through Oct. & into the Nathan Hale State Forest on the Presence Ministries from 11:30 am – May: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm “road to Norwich,” an 18th-century dirt 12:30 pm. Gospel Choir Concert to follow June – Sept.: Thur. – Sun., 12 – 4 pm; road that the Hale Family used to drive from 1 – 3 pm. Sun., 11 am – 4 pm their livestock to market. Heavy rain Oct.: Sat. & Sun., 12 – 4 pm cancels. Part of the Connecticut Forest & Sun., July 1, 2 pm Tours start on the hour. Park Association’s CT Trails Day. Free. Declaration of Independence Open Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Registration appreciated at 860.742.6917 Join us for a dramatic reading of the Day & Columbus Day or [email protected]. Declaration of Independence. Free, The Hale Homestead grounds are open sponsored by The Chester Kitchings year round from dawn to dusk. Sun., June 3 – Oct. 28, 11 am – 2 pm Family Foundation. Coventry Farmers’ Market Sat., May 5 – Thur., May 31 th Mon. – Fri., July 30 –Aug. 3, 9 am – 1 pm Join us for the 15 season of the Coventry Flag Field for Heroes Farmers’ Market! Hosted on the grounds Hempsted History Camp Visit the Homestead during operating Children will step back in time & explore of the Hale Homestead in Coventry. Free Capital Community College Explores the History of Medicine hours to purchase an American Flag in admission to the first floor of the House & history in our Hempsted History Camp. honor of a military service member, They will experience what life was like in family-friendly history activities. Visit onnecticut Landmarks welcomed over 140 institutions, landmarks, and neighborhoods as an veteran or hero. Join us for an opening coventryfarmersmarket.org for more the past through, hands-on activities. th students from Capital Community College’s extension of the college. The team expanded the ceremony on May 5 at 2 pm. Flags will information and to sign up for the weekly Children will see & hear from great be on display for the month of May. In Nursing 102 curriculum for 2018, using storytellers for a fun & educational week. newsletter. C collaboration with the Coventry Veterans classes to the Isham- “This program is a true humanities and health science feedback from students’ Scholarships are available for New London of Foreign Wars and the Coventry Sat., June 30, 1 pm Terry House this April. collaboration and a great example of how significant 2017 experiences. Faculty- residents & returning youth! Sponsored by American Legion. Cost per flag is $10; to the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund. $50 per Vintage Base Ball Game A team of CCC Nursing historical sites can be used creatively in higher led sessions highlight purchase, contact 860.742.6917 or Bring your lawn chairs & join us to child, ages 7-12. Register at 860.443.7949 [email protected]. faculty led by Nancy education. Our students marvel at the Isham-Terry medical and nursing care or [email protected]. witness a vintage base ball game. The th Providence Grays & the Bouckville Casey, Jessica Palozie House – it’s like they are stepping back in time to from the early 20 century and Alicia Zupan, and witness a completely different way of practicing and compare it to modern our Hartford Educator, medicine. It really opens their minds!” day care by exploring the Become a CTL Member! Jana Colacino, debuted – Jeﬀ Partridge, Hartford Heritage Project Director implements and treatments the program in April of Dr. Isham, while 8 2017 as part of CCC’s Hartford Heritage Project, students experience the history of this North End which utilizes Hartford's rich and diverse cultural gem through tours led by CTL staff. 5 2 6 3 Isham-Terry House 1 211 High Street 5 Hartford, CT 06103 860.247.8996 x 12 7 [email protected] 4 Open for tours by appointment May – Oct.: 1st Sat., 9:30 – 11 am, & 3rd Thur., 10 am – 3 pm. Your ticket to Travel Please reserve your tour at least 7 days in advance by contacting 860.247.8996 x rough Four Centuries 10, or [email protected]. of Conneicut Hiory.

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109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 8 5/1/18 3:36 PM Summits of the Mid-Atlantic Vintage Base Ball League will play by the means & For event updates and more information, visit ctlandmarks.org. rules of yesteryear. Doubleheader – games last 1.5 –2.5 hrs each. Concessions available for purchase. $5 suggested Summer House & shares tea’s significant donation per person. Registration social & political role during the recommended at 860.742.6917 or Revolutionary War & after. The traditional [email protected]. tea service features delicious treats & young guests may don period costumes. $25 per Mon. – Fri., July 23 – 27, 10 am – 3 pm adult; $15 per child. Reservations required Colonial Camp at [email protected]. Travel back to the 18th century for a week of summer fun. Campers will learn about Sat., June 2, 1:30 – 3 pm 18th-century life through hands on Rain date: Sun., June 3 CT Trails Day: Historic Main Street & activities each day & make crafts to take Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Old Burying Ground Walking Tour home at the end of the week. Campers will 55 South Main Street Walk 1 mile down our historic Main Street learn to spin wool, embroider, write with Suffield, CT 06078 8 quill pens, learn 18th-century games, dip & enjoy a close-up view of the beauty, 860.668.0055 detail & expanse of the homes, churches candles, make homemade ice cream & so [email protected] much more! For children ages 8-12; $200 & the Old Burying Ground. Suffield's per week/ $175 CTL Members. historic district boasts numerous Open for tours: May through Oct. th & 19th Registration required at 860.742.6917 or architectural gems from the 18 Sat. & Sun., 1 – 4 pm centuries. Part of the Connecticut Forest & [email protected]. Park Association’s CT Trails Day. Free; CT Landmarks Presents at New England Fri., May 4, 5 – 7 pm registration appreciated. Exhibition Opening: Lynda Montefusco Museum Association’s Annual Conference Please join us in welcoming our 2018 Fri., June 15, 6 – 9 pm artist, Lynda Montefusco! Lynda is the Cocktails in the Hatheway Garden n October 25th, Connecticut Landmarks’ Executive visceral connections to the past, museums and historic sites owner of A Stroke of Color Art Studio in Savor farm-to-table offerings by The Suffield where she provides artistic Director Sheryl Hack, Hempsted Project Manager are ideal venues for fostering dialogue and civic Federal & signature cocktails at CTL’s instruction to people of all ages. Enjoy her summer event in the lush garden. All O Aileen Novick and Palmer-Warner Project engagement. work exhibited at the Phelps-Hatheway proceeds benefit the Phelps-Hatheway Manager Erin Malueg, along with Braden Paynter of the House & Garden Visitor Center & be sure House & Garden. Registration required at International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, presented a How did we get started? CTL was in search of methods to to check out her website 860.247.8996 x 23. www.astrokeofcolorstudio.com. Free. session at the New England Museum Association convey the difficult stories residing at our properties: a Palmer-Warner House Sun., July 8, 12 pm conference. The session, Why Should I Care? Historic history of northern slavery; the colonial speculation of 307 Town Street 7 May – Sept., 1:30 – 3 pm House Museums as Sites of Conscience, Engaging Visitors Native American lands; an individual who was hanged as East Haddam, CT 06423 Declaration of Independence 1st Saturday Attic Tours Join us as community participants read with Difficult Histories, sought to share the lessons we the first spy of the American Revolution; a professor who 860.247.8996 Dates: May 5, June 2, July 7, Aug. 4 [email protected] aloud dramatic the Declaration of have learned through the process of research, studied the homeless to understand their lives and & Sept. 1 Independence. Guests include: WNPR’s Join us again for our ever-popular attic reinterpretation, and work with International Coalition of developed a 25-year correspondence and friendship with a Join Connecticut Landmarks staff for an Where We Live host Lucy Nalpathanchil, Sites of Conscience to help our organization remain “hobo”; and use them as bridges to address contemporary tours! On the first Saturday of each month, Suffield First Selectman Melissa Mack, exclusive look inside the Palmer-Warner venture beyond the stanchions with relevant to the public. social justice issues. For example, how does the history of House before it is open to the public State Representative Tami Zawistowski, museum interpreters for a rare, behind- Director of Kent Memorial Library Jackie Connecticut slavery affect our society today? How can we through special behind-the-scenes tours. the-scenes look of the Phelps’ servant & Experience the collection of letters & Hemond, Town Historian Lester Smith, & The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience take action to make our society more equitable? These are attic spaces. View objects & collections our young Colonial Campers! Free. (ICSC) is a dynamic global network of museums (230 not conversations our staff could successfully navigate diaries, photographs, historic furnishings, & from the 18th to the early 20th century. decorative arts used to reconstruct the lives Regular admission applies. member institutions in 55 countries), historic sites and without training. These are difficult topics, and while we of Frederic Palmer & Howard Metzger. Mon. – Fri., July 30 – Aug. 3, memory initiatives that inspire millions of people each year want to engage all of our visitors in these conversations, we Explore the grounds to see the constructed 10 am – 3 pm Sat., May 12, 9 am – 3 pm Colonial Adventure Camp to explore the parallels between past and present, build want to be sure that we are doing it well. By using the landscape Howard & Frederic created. May Market Welcome to the 18th century! Journey back bridges of understanding, and take action on pressing social methods of ICSC, we have begun the process of providing Goodbye winter, hello spring! Now in its in time with us to Colonial Suffield. Don a Tours are offered May – Nov.: 41st year, the Suffield Garden Club’s May issues. Members commit to interpreting history through interpretive staff with tools and methodologies to st st rd period costume & participate in historic 1 Sat., 11 am – 4 pm, & on the 1 & 3 Market officially marks the beginning of memory projects, engaging in programs that stimulate introduce, encourage, and facilitate meaningful Tues. 10 am – 2 pm. activities at the Phelps-Hatheway House. dialogue and promote humanitarian values, and conversations with our guests. the planting season. Beautify your garden Learn about trade & westward expansion with a variety of plants, trees & shrubs. while signing important documents & encouraging opportunities for the public to take action. For groups of 8 or less; $35 per person/ Win the drawing, buy homemade desserts, $25 for CTL members. Please reserve maps with a quill pen. Dye wool & cloth This method of facilitating dialogue by using ISCS training or find a unique Mother’s Day gift. Free; for knitting & sewing, then try your hand ICSC employs dialogue as an interpretive strategy to was implemented last season with a few staff at each of our your tour at least 7 days in advance by regular admission applies for house tour. contacting 860.247.8996 x 10 or at spinning & weaving, & enjoy a snack enable visitors to access larger historical and humanities properties participating. It will be utilized by all staff at all with homemade butter. A special surprise [email protected]. Sun., May 13, 2 pm themes. It applies this framework to enduring social issues of our sites this season. This conference was a chance to All tour proceeds benefit the Palmer- will await all on the final day: music & Mother’s Day Tea dancing will fill the air! For children ages addressed by historic sites and museums to foster an share our approach with peer organizations and to gain Warner Visitor Welcome, Program & Celebrate spring & our beautiful lilacs! exchange of ideas anchored in scholarship. As trusted insight from other museum professionals on how they are Exhibit Center Project. 8-12; $200 per week; $175 CTL Members. Mrs. Phelps offers a light tea in the Registration required at educational and community spaces containing human and implementing similar initiatives. [email protected].

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109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 9 5/1/18 3:36 PM 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.

109265_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 10 5/1/18 3:36 PM Conneicut Landmarks THANK YOU! Amos Bull House Dear Friends, Of Intere: Continued... 59 South Prospect Street Spring has finally sprung and with the good FOR ADULT READERS Hartford, CT 06106 weather comes the beginning of CTL's The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Greater Hartford Arts Council 860.247.8996 exciting 2018 Season of Events! We have Dunbar, and the American Revolution (Oxford Griebel Family Fund at HFPG [email protected] ctlandmarks.org many important preservation projects slated University Press, 2017), by Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Nathan Hale Fife & Drum Corps for the year– we can’t wait to share our received the 2017 Journal of the American Revolution Astrid & Fred Hanzalek Fund II at HFPG progress with you this summer. Many thanks Book of the Year award. Anderson, a 1976 University of Hartford Courant Officers to all of you who made annual fund gifts and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. Frederick C. Copeland, Jr., Cha ir Connecticut graduate and recipient of the 2010 Cornelius O'Leary, Vice Chair & Governance Chair helped us reach our goal– we greatly Distinguished Alumni Award, is a professor of history at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Ja mes D. Parr y, Vice Chair & Finance Chair appreciate your support of our mission. the University of Colorado, Boulder who first became Hartford News acquainted with Nathan Hale while growing up in Hoffman Auto Group Ja mes An ders on, Treasurer We’ve had a busy winter! On Sat., Feb. 24th we celebrated Black Beth Iacampo, Secretary & Personnel Chair Connecticut. She recalled passing the signs for the Hale Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman History Month at the Isham-Terry House with Yale historian Allegra di Homestead on her travels to and from UConn. Her Foundation, Inc. Bonaventura's For Adam's Sake presentation on enslaved third- Tru s undergraduate studies introduced her to lesser-known Shepherd Monson Holcombe Fund at HFPG John Bon generation New Englander Adam Jackson, who lived for more than Connecticut loyalist Moses Dunbar, who met the same fate Institute of Museum & Library Services Carla Cabrera three decades at the site of Connecticut Landmarks’ Hempsted Houses KeyBank David Canton, Ph.D. in New London. Connecticut College’s Dr. David Canton addressed as Nathan at the end of the hangman’s noose after failure to complete a dangerous Chester Kitchings Family Foundation Rohan A. Frm an the relevance of Adam Jackson’s story to understanding the history of mission. In her new book, Anderson compares and contrasts the lives of patriot Hale Kitchings Family Fund at Community Susan Horn enslaved people in New England, and the broader implications on the and loyalist Dunbar, using biographical studies of the men to explore the complicated Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Jay Levin historiography of African American studies today. local social and political issues which affected loyalties and beliefs during the Du y Mc Ma ha n Revolutionary War and which are often diminished under the simplified dichotomy The Last Green Valley Dr. Troy Monr In March, the last two third-grade field trips to the Hempsted Houses of “patriot and loyalist.” Lips, Rousseau Wealth Management Dia l Parro took place as part of New London Maritime Society's Local History William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Pat ric k L. Pinnell, Colleions Chair Program which brought 300+ students to six historic sites during the FOR KIDS & FAMILIES NewAlliance Foundation Todd Regan school year. The Nathan Hale Homestead will open its doors to school On the Farm, at the Market (Henry Holt & Company, Nick's Country Kitchen Melissa Roy rd groups for the spring beginning on May 3 welcoming projected 2016), by G. Brian Karas, is geared toward kids aged Old Bethlehem Historical Society Anthony J. Salerno, Jr. students for programs in the newly renovated Hale Barns this year. th Old Hill Garden James Wu infant - 4 grade. The two-part picture book follows food from growers and producers to a market, and then to a Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation This season is bursting with activity and programming that you won’t Central Office Staff locally owned and operated restaurant. With its hints Frank Loomis Palmer Fund want to miss, including walking tours, garden programs, and the return of Sheryl N. Hack, Executive Direo r about the importance of not quitting until a job is done, People's United Insurance Agency the Coventry Farmers’ Market. Our 2018 Special Events kick-off with Jana Colacino, Hartford Educator this sincerely illustrated book will not only pique your Pirie Associates Architects, LLC Lilac Girls with Martha Hall Kelly on Sat., May 19th. If you haven't yet Mary Cockram, Grants Wrer & Adminirator kid’s interest in veggies, but it will make your mouth Robinson & Cole, LLP met the New York Times bestselling author, you're in for a real treat at the Jamie-Lynn Fontaine Connell, water and inspire a visit to the Coventry Farmers’ Vernon D. & Florence E. Roosa Family Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden. On Sat., June 9th, the Hempsted Marketing & Development Manager Market at the Nathan Hale Homestead! Ask for it at your local library or visit Foundation at HFPG Amanda Cooper, Marketing & Development Assiant Houses present Juneteenth from 12 to 4 pm with the NAACP-New SBM Charitable Foundation th smile.amazon.com and choose Connecticut Landmarks. Erin Malueg, Colleions Manager & Proje Manager, London Branch. On Fri, June 15 , we will once again celebrate summer Society of the Cincinnati in the State of CT Palmer Warner House with Cocktails in the Hatheway Garden from 6 to 9 pm. Soroptimists International of Greater Joseph Pukas, Proper Manager Waterbury Kerri Zongol, Executive Assiant & Office Manager Families will enjoy the 7th Annual Fairy Festival at the Bellamy- continued from page 1 Suffield Chamber of Commerce Ferriday House & Garden on Sat., June 16th and the return of the house and that Dinah might have slept in the bedroom off of the kitchen of the 1728 Suffield Garden Club Museum Staff Sunset Sounds Concert Series in the beautiful Butler-McCook Garden addition. McGill will be joined by community members and will speak at the Town of Coventry George McCleary, Program Planner & Se Horticulturi, June through September. The first Vintage Base Ball Game in over a th Travelers Be ll am y- Ferriday House & Garden century will take place at the Nathan Hale Homestead on Sat., June Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 9 . True Value of Bethlehem Nikki Todaro, Se Adminiration Assiant 30th at 1 pm. We have opportunities for young people to engage with The United Illuminating Company & Program Liaison, Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden history at our Hempsted, Hale and Phelps-Hatheway Colonial Camps. Our Juneteenth Celebration also features a dramatic performance of Joan Jackson by Patricia and Charles Walker Family Fund Ailn Novick, Se Adminirator & Proje Manager, Teens can apply for our Hartford Youth Employment Program, or join storyteller Tammy Denease, non-profit tabling, food provided by the OIC, music by at HFPG He mp ed Ho us es our youth groups at the Hale Homestead or the Hempsted Houses. Shades of Joy and DJ Frank Lo, a performance by the Lion’s Den Dancers, games and Anne Marie Charland, Se Adminirator, art activities for families, tours of the houses, and much more. On Sunday, June 10th, Webster Bank Nathan Hale Homeead We can’t wait to see you at our properties this season. join us for a church service at 11:30 am by In His Presence Ministries followed by a West Hartford Garden Club Marilyn Yarrington, Events Coordinator, concert of church choirs at 1:00 pm. Westford Hill Distillers Nathan Hale Homeead With best regards, Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C. Lynn Mervosh, Se Adminirator, Willimantic Waste Paper Co., Inc. Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Accounting Resources, Inc., Consulting Bookkpers Like us on Facebook Foundation Inc. Ra Rivera/Love & Pop, Graphic Designer facebook.com/ConnecticutLandmarks Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at HFPG Sheryl Hack, Executive Director Page 2 Page 11

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