THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016 SSummerummer ’’1616 Your guide to BEERS ■ BEACHES ■ CAMPING ■ CULTURE . AANDND MMORE!ORE! F2 Thursday, May 26, 2016 | The Bulletin ARTS AND CULTURE See a play, visit a museum, or learn about history Old Lighthouse Museum: Stonington Historical Society, 7 Water St., Stonington. (860) 535-1440. Indian & Colonial Research Center: 39 Main St., Old Mystic. (860) 536-9771. Nathan Lester House & Farm Tool Museum: 153 Vinegar Hill Road, Ledyard. (860) 464-2040. Ledyard Water-Powered Up-Down Sawmill: Iron Street, Ledyard. (860) 464-2575. Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center: 110 Pequot Trail, Mashantucket. (800) 411-9671. Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum: 1819 Route 32, Uncasville. (860) 848-0594 Chestnut Street Playhouse: 24 Chest- nut Street, Norwich. (860) 886-2378 Donald L. Oat Theater: 62 Broadway, Norwich. (860) 887-2789. Norwich Arts Council Galleries: 60-64 Broadway, Norwich. (860) 887-2724 Slater Memorial Museum and Converse Art Gallery: Norwich Free Academy, 108 Crescent St., Norwich. (860) 887-2506 Greg Farlow, president of the Leffingwell House Museum, talks about an antique foot warmer in April. From left are Connor Christian, 9, of Baltic, Riley Davis, 12, of Indian Burial Grounds: Sachem St., Mystic and Beverly Mayberry, 9, of Groton, all members of the Nutmeg Fife and Drum Corps, based in Groton. BULLETIN FILE PHOTO Norwich. Silver Circle Gallery & Art Center: 75 Lebanon Historical Society Museum & Mystic River Historical Society: 74 Garde Arts Center: 325 State St., Leffi ngwell House Museum: 348 Wash- Main St., Suite 3, Putnam. (860) Visitor Center: 856 Trumbull High- High St., Mystic. (860) 536-4779. New London. (860) 444-7373 ington St., Norwich. 928-2900. way, Lebanon. (860) 642-6579. Shaw Mansion: 11 Blinman St., New Avery-Copp House: 154 Thames St., Prudence Crandall Museum: 1 S. Roseland Cottage Museum: 556 Route Beaumont House: 844 Trumbull London. (860) 443-1209. Groton. (860) 445-1637 Canterbury Road, Canterbury. (860) 169, Woodstock. (860) 928-4074. Highway, Lebanon. (860) 642-6579. 546-7800, (860) 256-2800. The Gallery at Firehouse Square: Fort Griswold Battlefi eld State Children’s Museum of Southeastern War Offi ce: 149 West Town St., 239 Bank St., New London. (860) Park: Monument Street and Park Brooklyn Historical Society Museum Connecticut: 409 Main St., Niantic. Lebanon. (860) 873-3399. 443-0344. Avenue, Groton. (860) 445-1729. & Daniel Putnam Tyler Law Offi ce: 25 Canterbury Road, Thomas Lee House & Little Boston Connecticut DAR Governor Jonathan Custom House Maritime Museum: Ebenezer Avery House: Fort Griswold Brooklyn. (860) 774-7728 School: 228 W. Main St., East Lyme. Trumbull House: 169 West Town St., 150 Bank St., New London. (860) Battlefi eld State Park, 57 Fort St., (860) 739-6070, (860) 739-9660. Lebanon. (860) 642-7558. 447-2501. Groton. (860) 446-9257. Killingly Historical Center: 196 Main St., Danielson. (860) 779-7250, (860) Smith-Harris House: 33 Society Road, Jonathan Trumbull Jr. House: 780 Nathan Hale Schoolhouse: 19 Atlantic Fort Trumbull State Park: 90 Walbach 774-5364. Niantic. (860) 739-0761. Trumbull Highway, Lebanon. (860) St., New London. (860) 873-3399. St., New London, (860) 444-7591. 642-6100. Theatre of Northeastern Connecticut at Samuel Smith Homestead: 82 Plants LQM Gallery: 165 State St., Harris Bldg. Eugene O’Neill Theater Center: 305 the Bradley Playhouse: 30 Front St., Dam Road, Niantic. (860) 739-5156, Noank Historical Society: 17 Sylvan Atrium, Room 106, New London. Great Neck Road, Waterford. (860) Putnam. (860) 928-7887. (860) 739-2732. St., Noank. (860) 536-7026. (860) 237-1081, (860) 501-9024. 443-5378. The Bulletin | Thursday, May 26, 2016 F3 F4 Thursday, May 26, 2016 | The Bulletin HISTORICAL SITES Across the state, the past awaits you Eastern Connecticut academy for Black women (1833- in an interactive tour of her 1871 paper to rub on the stones as a fi rst American dictionary. Slater Memorial Museum and Con- 34), established by Connecticut’s National Historic Landmark. souvenir. verse Art Gallery: Norwich Free female state hero. Changing exhib- Old State House of Connecticut: 800 Academy, 108 Crescent Street, its, period furnishings, research Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden: 9 Amistad Memorial: 165 Church St., Main St., Hartford. 860-522-6766. Norwich. 860-887-2506. Slater is library, gift shop. Main St., Bethlehem. 203-266-7596. New Haven. Completed by Ed Connecticut’s original statehouse more than an art museum - it’s Once the home of Bethlehem’s Hamilton in 1992, this monument is the oldest in the U.S. Many also an architectural treasure. The Monte Cristo Cottage: 325 Pequot fi rst minister, the house was built pays tribute to the 53 Africans historic events took place here, museum is housed in a dramatic Ave., New London. 860-443-0051. in 1754, and is fi lled with American who escaped their slavery by including the signing of the fi rst building designed by noted archi- The Monte Cristo Cottage was the and European antiques. In addition overpowering the crew of the ship written Constitution in the nation, tect Stephen C. Earle more than a only permanent home of Eugene to the 1754 home, the property Amistad. The monument is located and the Amistad and Prudence century ago, in the Romanesque O’Neill from his birth in 1888 until also features a formal parterre at the site of the old New Haven Crandall trials. Revival style popularized by H.H. 1917, as well as the setting for two garden, with a collection of roses, Jail, in which the Africans were Richardson. of the playwright’s best known peonies, and lilacs. kept during their initial arrest. Hatheway House: 55 South Main works, “Long Day’s Journey Into St., Suffi eld. A three-century-old Gillette Castle State Park and Mansion: Night” and “Ah, Wilderness!” Shore Line Trolley Museum: 17 River Hill-Stead Museum: 35 Mountain sycamore overhangs this house, 67 River Road, East Haddam. 860- St., East Haven. 203-467-6927. Road, Farmington. 860-677-4787. built in the 1760s and expanded 526-2336. This castle-like mansion Others Ride vintage streetcars through National Historic Landmark. Colo- 1794. The neo-classical house is a was the eccentric home of William Mark Twain House & Museum: 351 scenic woods and wetlands. View nial Revival style house (1901) set window into prosperous life in the Gillette, a turn-of-the-century Farmington Ave., Hartford. 860- exhibits on the trolley era and tour on 150 acres with sunken garden. 18th century. stage actor who was famous for 247-0998. The site is one of the the trolley collection. Listed on Collection of French Impression- his classic portrayal of Sherlock top 10 historic houses in the world. the National Register of Historic ist paintings, decorative arts and Connecticut Historical Society Holmes. The house is fi lled with Walk through Twain’s home, Places. original furnishings. Museum: 1 Elizabeth Street, Hart- fascinating architectural details where the Clemens family lived for ford. 860-236-5621. The society’s and also includes exhibits about 17 years. Ancient Burying Ground: Corner of Noah Webster House: 227 South Main museum has one of the largest Gillette’s career and his love of Main and Gold streets, Hartford. St., West Hartford. 860-521-5362. collections of Connecticut furni- railroads and trains. Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: 77 860-280-4145. The ancient art of The Noah Webster House is located ture, silver, pewter, costumes, Forest St., Hartford. 860-522-9258. stone-cutting marks over 6,000 in the restored 18th-century birth- graphic materials and tavern Prudence Crandall Museum: Junction The all-new Stowe House Experi- buried here. Search for old family place and childhood home of Noah signs in existence. A library holds routes 14 and 169, Canterbury. ence introduces you to the life and names, read the epitaphs of Webster, a teacher, lawyer, early 100,000 manuscripts and nearly 3 860-546-7800. New England’s fi rst impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe English settlers, bring crayons and abolitionist, and the creator of the million volumes. A replica room of the boarding area at the Prudence Crandall Museum. The Prudence Crandall Museum. 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