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SUMMARY:Hartford History Lecture Series "William Saunders & His World: The History of a Black Merchant Tailor in Hartford"
DESCRIPTION:FEATURING:\nDr. Fiona Vernal\, UConn History Department \nFor three generations\, the Saunders family operated a successful and innovative tailor business in the city of Hartford\, eventually establishing a reputation as Black merchant tailors with deep ties in Hartford’s Black and white communities. Their network stretched from Connecticut\, Massachusetts\, and New York to Barbados and France. This talk will explore William Saunders and the significance of his lineage and legacy for understanding Black entrepreneurship\, social justice\, civic engagement\, and political activism in 19th and 20th century Hartford. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public \nFor more information or to inquire about special accommodations please call(860) 522-6766. \nTo reserve your seat\, click here: https://bit.ly/HartfordHistory2024 \nABOUT THE HARTFORD HISTORY LECTURE SERIES\nConnecticut State Community College Capital and Connecticut’s Old State House are pleased to present the 2024 Hartford History Lecture Series beginning in October. Building upon Connecticut State Community College Capital’s signature Hartford Heritage Project\, the first place-based curriculum at a Connecticut college or university\, underscores the importance of Hartford’s history and rich cultural resources. The series includes four lectures on Thursday evenings at Connecticut’s Old State House and a walking tour on Saturday\, October 12. \nThe 2024 Hartford History Lecture series is supported by funding through CT Humanities in alignment with the America 250 | CT Commission. Special thanks to our partners at the Hartford Heritage Project and UCONN Department of History. \n 
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/hartford-history-lecture-series-william-saunders-his-world-the-history-of-a-black-merchant-tailor-in-hartford-2/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT 06103\, USA
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SUMMARY:Summer Music Series Concert at CT's Old State House
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side patio of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! \nConcerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. \nThank you to our friends from the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving\, and the Evelyn Preston Memorial Fund for their generous funding of the Summer Concert Series. \nUPCOMING CONCERTS: \n\n\n\nOct 4: Gift Horse  \nOctober 11: Projeto Batucada boa Eua\n\n\n\n\n  \n \n 
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/summer-music-series-concert-at-cts-old-state-house-16/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T160000
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SUMMARY:Historic Firsts: The 2024 Presidential Election
DESCRIPTION:With guest speakers: \nEvelyn M. Simien\, Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut \nManisha Sinha\, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut.  \nChris Vials\, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut \nWhat is the significance of the Nov. 6\, 2024 election in US history and politics? What should voters pay attention to as they vote? Three distinguished professors from the University of Connecticut will discuss these issues and answer questions about the upcoming election.  \nSponsored by the UConn American Studies Program\, the Department of Critical and Social Inquiry \nRSVP: https://forms.gle/nB1tDSDQEP4d89db8 \nDiscounted Parking:On street parking is available. Garage parking for $5 is available at State House Square Parking Garage\, located at 55 Market Street\, just steps away from Connecticut’s Old State House. Please present your parking ticket to the museum’s Visitor Services desk for validation. \nOur Doors Are Open:Connecticut’s Old State House is committed to ensuring all visitors have access to this historic site. Our building is mobility friendly with a ramp on the West side entrance and elevator access to all floors. Our bathrooms on the ground floor are also accessible and have changing tables. If you wish to inquire about special accommodations for a tour or special event\, please call (860) 522-6766.
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/historic-firsts-the-2024-presidential-election/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T174500
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SUMMARY:Hartford History Lecture Series "Hot Summers in the City: Hartford’s Urban Unrest\, 1967-1969"
DESCRIPTION:FEATURING\n\n\n\n\n\nElena Rosario\, PhD Candidate\, University of Michigan \nIn the 1960s\, protests\, demonstrations\, and rebellions were widespread across the United States\, including in many Connecticut cities. This lecture will focus on a series of late-sixties civil disorders organized by Hartford residents of color from 1967 to 1969. It will also highlight the causes\, aftermath\, and impact of the unrest on the city and its residents. Moreover\, it will examine the unrest by highlighting Puerto Rican participation and coalition building between Hartford’s Black and Puerto Rican residents during the unrest. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nFor more information or to inquire about special accommodations please call(860) 522-6766. \nTo register\, click here: https://bit.ly/HartfordHistory2024 \nThe 2024 Hartford History Lecture series is supported by funding through CT Humanities in alignment with the America 250 | CT Commission. Special thanks to our partners at the Hartford Heritage Project and UCONN Department of History.
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/hartford-history-lecture-series-hot-summers-in-the-city-hartfords-urban-unrest-1967-1969-2/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT 06103\, USA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T120000
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SUMMARY:Summer Music Series Concert at CT's Old State House
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side patio of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! \nConcerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. \nThank you to our friends from the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving\, and the Evelyn Preston Memorial Fund for their generous funding of the Summer Concert Series. \nUPCOMING CONCERTS: \n\n\n\nOctober 11: Projeto Batucada boa Eua\n\n\n\n\n  \n \n 
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/summer-music-series-concert-at-cts-old-state-house-17/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T100000
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SUMMARY:Fires\, Floods\, and Acts of God: A Downtown Hartford Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:What a Disaster! Take to the streets for a unique walking tour centered on man-made and natural disasters that made history in Hartford. Join us on a 1.2-mile loop to hear compelling stories of ingenuity\, resilience\, and innovation and see how Downtown Hartford has grown. \nThe tour was start from inside Connecticut’s Old State House by the Visitor Desk at 6 pm on Thursdays and at 10 am on Saturdays. The tour will take place rain or shine\, so please come prepared for the weather! The tour will last approximately one hour and is about 1 mile long with the potential for some stairs – weather and river flooding depending.  \nFor more information\, please call us at 860.240.5340 or email Nicole Sousa\, Events and Outreach Manager\, at nicole.sousa@cga.ct.gov.  \nTo register\, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VzJRfD7EJtgKYG-HtEWXB5U50WxK7ZmIQ3yC5gpXoWU/edit
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/fires-floods-and-acts-of-god-a-downtown-hartford-walking-tour-30/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hartford History Lecture Series: Tracing the Footsteps of Hartford's First Black Church Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:*Tour will start at Center Church (675 Main St.) \nTracing the Footsteps of Hartford’s First Black Church will begin at Center Church at 10 am with a presentation inside the church by members of the church’s history team. This will allow participants to learn about the genesis of the Talcott Street Church congregation in the place where it was founded as the African Religious Society in 1819\, as told from the church’s perspective. \nWe will then walk to CT’s Old State House to learn from an interpreter there about the engagement of the Reverend James Pennington and the Talcott Church congregation in the Amistad Trial. Next we will visit the site where the Talcott Church stood from 1826 to 1954 before it was torn down and the congregation moved to Faith Congregational Church; members of Faith will present the story of their church in the now empty space where the church once stood on the corner of Talcott and Market Streets. The tour will end at CT State Capital’s Nutmeg Pulpit Exhibit\, created by Dr. Frank Mitchell to bring the voices of the people of Talcott Street church out of the shadows of history to be heard and read once again. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nFor more information or to inquire about special accommodations please call(860) 522-6766. \nTo reserve your spot\, click here: https://bit.ly/HartfordHistory2024
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/hartford-history-lecture-series-tracing-the-footsteps-of-hartfords-first-black-church-walking-tour-2/
LOCATION:Center Church\, 675 Main St\, Hartford\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T140000
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SUMMARY:Voices of Freedom at Connecticut's Old State House
DESCRIPTION:Featuring poets Bessy Reyna and Kate Rushin \nThe Mount Holyoke Club of Hartford and Connecticut’s Old State House are pleased to present a dramatic reading of Bessy Reyna’s poem Freedom Journeys in Four Voices. Bessy’s poem tells the story of Nancy Jackson\, the young slave woman granted her freedom in 1837 by the Supreme Court of Errors at Connecticut’s Old State House. Kate Rushin will also read her poetry celebrating the life of Marian Anderson\, an opera singer and civil rights pioneer who lived in Danbury for more than 50 years. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nParking:\nOn-street parking is available. Please follow posted parking instructions.\nGarage parking is available at State House Square Parking Garage\, located at 55 Market Street \nOur Doors Are Open:\nOur building is mobility friendly with a ramp on the West side entrance and elevator access to all floors. Our bathrooms are on the ground floor and have changing tables. If you wish to inquire about special accommodations for a tour or special event\, please call (860) 522-6766.
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/voices-of-freedom-at-connecticuts-old-state-house/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT 06103\, USA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T174500
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SUMMARY:Hartford History Lecture Series "A Black Ecological Return to Charter Oak Terrace"
DESCRIPTION:FEATURING \nChannon Miller\, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History\, Trinity College \nAs much as water protects\, nourishes\, and sustains Black children’s lives\, it also restrains\, suffocates\, and degrades them. The residents of Hartford’s Charter Oak Terrace confronted a water-based ecological catastrophe in the 1960s. A flooding river—channeled by municipal neglect\, class inequality\, and racial segregation—drowned several children. The neighborhood’s mothers forged the Association of Concerned Parents of Charter Oak (ACP) and demanded that the city halt the nearby highway construction that propelled the river’s overflow. Dr. Miller will excavate the unwritten history of the Black women-led ACP and chronicle an early rendering of a local environmental justice movement. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nFor more information or to inquire about special accommodations please call(860) 522-6766. \nTo reserve your seat\, click here: https://bit.ly/HartfordHistory2024 \nThe 2024 Hartford History Lecture series is supported by funding through CT Humanities in alignment with the America 250 | CT Commission. Special thanks to our partners at the Hartford Heritage Project and UCONN Department of History.
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/hartford-history-lecture-series-a-black-ecological-return-to-charter-oak-terrace-2/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT 06103\, USA
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T190000
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SUMMARY:Hartford History Lecture Series "A Commitment to Caribbean History & Cultural Heritage in Hartford: Digitizing the Lloyd Best Archive in Trinidad and Tobago"
DESCRIPTION:FEATURING \nDr. Christina Bleyer\, Watkinson Library\, Trinity College \nThe Watkinson Library at Trinity College has partnered with the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean to digitize the Lloyd Best Archive. Using our project as an example\, this presentation explores post-custodial archiving as a transformative approach to collecting\, preserving\, and providing access to archival materials\, contrasting it with traditional archival practices rooted in colonial attitudes. It emphasizes digital technology’s role in preserving archives while respecting creators’ agency and community narratives. \nUnlike traditional methods focused on physical possession and so-called “expert” interpretation\, post-custodial archiving fosters collaborative\, equitable partnerships. This model empowers communities to maintain intellectual and physical custody of their histories\, ensuring accurate representation in the historical record. Post-custodial archiving promotes epistemic sovereignty\, allowing marginalized voices to shape their own narratives within global archival frameworks making a deep commitment to the preservation and dissemination of Caribbean history and cultural heritage here in Hartford. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nFor more information or to inquire about special accommodations please call(860) 522-6766. \nTo reserve your seat\, click here: https://bit.ly/HartfordHistory2024 \nThe 2024 Hartford History Lecture series is supported by funding through CT Humanities in alignment with the America 250 | CT Commission. Special thanks to our partners at the Hartford Heritage Project and UCONN Department of History.
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/hartford-history-lecture-series-a-commitment-to-caribbean-history-cultural-heritage-in-hartford-digitizing-the-lloyd-best-archive-in-trinidad-and-tobago-2/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT 06103\, USA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T110000
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SUMMARY:Fires\, Floods\, and Acts of God: A Downtown Hartford Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:What a Disaster! Take to the streets for a unique walking tour centered on man-made and natural disasters that made history in Hartford. Join us on a 1.2-mile loop to hear compelling stories of ingenuity\, resilience\, and innovation and see how Downtown Hartford has grown. \nThe tour was start from inside Connecticut’s Old State House by the Visitor Desk at 6 pm on Thursdays and at 10 am on Saturdays. The tour will take place rain or shine\, so please come prepared for the weather! The tour will last approximately one hour and is about 1 mile long with the potential for some stairs – weather and river flooding depending.  \nFor more information\, please call us at 860.240.5340 or email Nicole Sousa\, Events and Outreach Manager\, at nicole.sousa@cga.ct.gov.  \nTo register\, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VzJRfD7EJtgKYG-HtEWXB5U50WxK7ZmIQ3yC5gpXoWU/edit
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/fires-floods-and-acts-of-god-a-downtown-hartford-walking-tour-31/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T140000
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SUMMARY:Merchandising the Dead in 19th Century New England & Washington\, D.C.
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the history of “body snatching” in the 19th century. Physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers. Yet the only legal access allowed were the bodies of convicted murders. This restriction led to a spike in demand. Doctors and their students turned to the illegal and illicit removal of the dead from graveyards and cemeteries. Find out more about this practice with author and historian Richard Ross III\, whose extensive research reveals the religious\, moral\, and social objections during the time. \nParking:\nGarage parking is available at State House Square Parking Garage\, located at 55 Market Street\, just steps away \nFree on-street parking is available after 6 pm and on weekends. Please follow posted parking instructions. \nOur Doors Are Open:\nOur building is mobility friendly with a ramp on the West side entrance and elevator access to all floors. Our bathrooms are on the ground floor and have changing tables. If you wish to inquire about special accommodations for a tour or special event\, please call (860) 522-6766.
URL:https://wp.cga.ct.gov/osh/calendar/merchandising-the-dead-in-19th-century-new-england-and-washington-d-c/
LOCATION:Connecticut’s Old State House\, 800 Main St\, Hartford\, CT\, United States
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