Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage PAID Hartford, CT Landmark News Permit # 4994 Conneicut Landmarks Newsletter History Moving Forward Volume 22 Number 1 Spring 2018 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. Photos L-R: Joseph McGill, Tammy Denease, and Shades of Joy with Tammy Denease Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Proje Joins the Hemped Houses for Junetnth 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 Conneicut 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., Chair 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 James D. Parry, 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 James Anderson, 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- Trus 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. Frman 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 Duy McMahan 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 Dial Parro took place as part of New London Maritime Society's Local History William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Patrick L. Pinnell, Colleions 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 Direor 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 Wrer & Adminirator 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 Assiant 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, Colleions 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 Assiant & 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 & Se Horticulturi, June through September. The first Vintage Base Ball Game in over a th Travelers Bellamy-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, Se Adminiration Assiant 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.