aCTLSummer2017_Layout 1 6/28/2017 8:29 AM Page 1 Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage PAID Hartford, CT Landmark News Permit # 4994 Conneicut Landmarks Newsletter History Moving Forward Volume 21 Number 2 Summer 2017 Amos Bull House landmarks.org 59 South Prospect Street Hartford, CT 06106 Conneicut Landmarks inires intere & encourages learning about the American pa by preserving seleed hioric properties, colleions & ories & presenting programs that meaningfully engage the public & our communies. 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 Aivism 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 Conneicut 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. Trus 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. Frman 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, Colleions 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 Direor 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 Assiant Pirie Associates Architects, LLC properties this summer for youngsters pm. 860.668.0055 Erin Malueg, Colleions 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 Assiant & 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, Se Horticulturi & Interim Se st th house museums relevant for the 21 century during the 15 year of our Suffield Chamber of Commerce Adminirator, Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden Youth Employment Program. Several of our properties are hosting Suffield Garden Club Ailn Novick, Se Adminirator & Proje Manager, Hemped Houses young scholars in grades K-8 from Jumoke Academy’s summer TD Bank Anne Marie Charland, Se Adminirator, program. In May and June, fifth and sixth graders from Jumoke came Town of Coventry Nathan Hale Homeead to the Butler-McCook House as the final event for their spring social Towne Apothecary Lynn Mervosh, Se Adminirator, 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 Bookkpers 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 Page 2 Sheryl Hack, Executive Director Page 11 aCTLSummer2017_Layout 1 6/28/2017 8:29 AM Page 3 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.