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This looks wonderful!This January 24, we are thrilled to present “Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).” This prolific exhibit not only launches the Museum’s 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA initiative, but also marks the debut of the Museum’s recent acquisition of Walker’s 2005 print series “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)”
Presented in a series of large-scale prints, “Kara Walker” considers experiences of racism towards African Americans that were only alluded to in historical representations of the Civil War.
Learn more about this exhibit, and our 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA initiative on our website, www.nbmaa.org/2020.

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Kara Walker, "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)" portfolio, 2005, Offset lithography and silkscreen on Somerset Textured paper, Installation view:
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Thousands of black Southern students, including a young Martin Luther King Jr., came north to work in Connecticut's tobacco fields.
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This Marxophone dates back to 1910 and is used to this day at Dirt Floor Recording & Production ! Hear more about vintage recording in our newest #GratingTheNutmeg podcast episode steaming now on @spotify @apple 🎶💻 #podcast #episode #history #music ...
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Our new issue and podcast cover things that went obsolete overnight - like Connecticut's Royal Typewriter Co.!
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Worked at Royal for 22 years total in the New Park and Windsor facilities. Now Konica Minolta and moving to NJ. The New Park buildings were owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford and Royal leased the space
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So many beautiful artworks on the trail! Not to early to plan for the weekend!J.M.W. TURNER: WATERCOLORS FROM TATE Passport Exclusive & So much more @ CTarttrail! - mailchi.mp/ee1d6ec71589/sept-newsletter-935019 ...
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We visit CT’s legendary Dirt Floor Recording & Production studio to talk to musician and Dirt Floor producer Eric Michael Lichter. Connecticut Public Radio’s John Dankowsky calls Dirt Floor “the Music Sanctuary of Connecticut”. Hear more about how Lichter uses old fashioned, hands-on musical instruments (some dating as far back as 1910) and recording methods to produce some of Connecticut’s most popular new musicians.

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A Niantic researcher has tracked down an interesting tidbit for local history buffs: The famed "Negro Motorist Green-Book" that helped African
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On Sunday-great lecture coming up!Join us TOMORROW from 2-3:30 PM for a lecture with Thomas Venturella, owner, operator, and Senior Conservator of Venturella Studio, NYC. He will share fascinating details about two stained glass windows he helped restore in our “Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London” exhibition.

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Our new Winter issue! The theme is Disrupt-stories cover movers and shakers! Royal typewriters, labor strikes, blizzards and hurricanes, obsolete computers, and Mid-century Modern architecture! Get your copy at ctexplored.org/subscribe ...
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Wonderful CT History resources for teachers!3rd/4th grade teachers using Where I Live: Connecticut:
We’re looking for a couple of teachers to pilot one or more of our Learning Through Places lesson plans this spring!

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Looks like a beautiful exhibit!Did you know that you can view more than 30 rarely seen European Paintings in our current exhibition, “Brought to Light: European Paintings from the Collection”? On view are a selection of portraits, history paintings, still lifes, genre scenes, and landscapes from the early Renaissance through the 1800s.

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New episode! Take a listen!In our first Gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com podcast for 2020, Walt Woodward interviews author and historian Tom Shachtman, who talks about his just-released book, The Founding Fortunes: How America's Wealthy Paid for and Profited From America's Revolution. Shachtman asks an important question most historians don't consider: "'Who paid for the war for independence?"
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Just in time for the weekend! Join Walt Woodward for some holiday cheer with these Christmas stories! New episode on our podcast Grating the NutmegConnecticut Christmas Stories and Song on GRATINGTHENUTMEG.LIBSYN.com
For your holiday enjoyment, State Historian Walt Woodward has gathered together three historic Connecticut Christmas stories, and a Christmas Song: Francis S. Parsons "The Christmas Party" (1923), Louise Chandler Moulton's "What Came to Olive Haygarth" (1867), Abby Allin's "Old Santa Claus (1850), and Walt Woodward's own "A Children's Christmas." Gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com

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