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Free Saturday at the Lyman Allyn Lyman Allyn Art MuseumIf you have been wanting to check out the Museum’s summer exhibitions, take advantage of Free First Saturday. Admission to the Museum is FREE all day this Saturday, August 6. Make it a family trip and join us in the art studio between 11 a.m and 1 p.m. to make playful postcards.📬

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Here's the Hindenburg flying over Hartford! That could be the CT State Library at the bottom right! The airship Hindenburg passed over Connecticut 21 times during its 17-month service between 1936-37. In the 1930s, air travel across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and North America was in its infancy. In this episode, Asst. Publisher Mary Donohue talks to historian Alexander Rose, author of Empires of the Sky, Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World. And you’ll hear from Bridgeport historian Carolyn Ivanoff, author of the CT Explored article “The Hindenburg Flies over Bridgeport”. Find out more about why the Nazi swastika is visible in many of the photos taken over Connecticut. ...
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Something we don’t see everyday!Auditions! Are YOU ready to haunt Old North Cemetery?

Actors are needed for West Hartford Hauntings, the museum's theatrical cemetery tours that take place the last two weekends in October.

There is a role for everyone! We are looking for a diverse group of actors to help tell the interesting and often scary stories of past West Hartford residents. Auditions will be held September 6 & 7 at the Noah Webster House from 6-8 p.m.

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Cruises leave the docks at the Museum Thursdays through Sundays.

Week of August 1, 2022 Schedule:

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Timeline photosJoin us to celebrate Isabella Beecher Hooker, an early women's suffrage activist, as her legacy is added to the National Votes for Women Trail! At 10:00am, Isabella and her husband John will be honored with a trail marker plaque at their former home on Hawthorn Street in Hartford. At noon, Susan Campbell, author of "Tempest Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker," will discuss the 1877 Married Women's Property Law, and Isabella and John Hooker's work for women's rights. This joint program with the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is part of the Legislative Landmarks Series.

Guests for Susan’s presentation should come to the Visitor Center, adjacent to our parking lot on Forest Street.

We expect parking to be tight and suggest folks park down in the Mark Twain House lot @ 385 Farmington Ave. if possible. That means attendees will need to walk up through Twain’s museum building to upper campus where the Stowe Center’s buildings are.

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Want to know where George Washington slept? Six months into his presidency, George Washington made a peacetime tour of the states including Connecticut! Find out more in our Summer 2022 issue!

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A great story about Yale students making difference in Texas!In 1909, dozens of students from Yale University’s School of Forestry spent weeks near Woodville on densely timbered land owned by lumberman J. Lewis Thompson. It was the third year that the students traveled from Connecticut to study Texas timber management and lumber operations.

Concurrent with the field school was a meeting of a yellow pine conservation committee, which included Thompson and Yale Forest School director Henry Solon Graves. They were joined by Gifford Pinchot, who served as the first chief forester of the United States. Pinchot and Thompson were both proponents for conservation measures in the lumber industry. The successful camp influenced Yale’s return to trip to Texas in 1911, this time near Trinity.

In Texas, environmental advocacy had far-reaching effects in succeeding years, from the legislature’s establishment of a forestry school at Texas A&M and the Texas Forest Service as a state agency to Civilian Conservation Corps camps established throughout East Texas in the 1930s. Thompson was later elected a state legislator, serving on the Conservation and Reclamation Committee. One of the 1909 students was Aldo Leopold, who became a noted environmentalist and author of A Sand County Almanac in 1949.

A historical marker commemorating the Yale forestry school was placed near the site in 1986.

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New Podcast Episode out today! Listen: bit.ly/3QdMaHF

The airship Hindenburg passed over Connecticut 21 times during its 17-month service between 1936-37. In the 1930s, air travel across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and North America was in its infancy. The vast airships of the German Zeppelin Company, zeppelins or dirigibles, took an early lead, competing not with airplanes but luxury ocean liners. In this episode, Asst. Publisher Mary Donohue talks to historian Alexander Rose, author of Empires of the Sky, Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World (Random House, 2020). And you’ll hear from Bridgeport historian Carolyn Ivanoff, author of the article “The Hindenburg Flies over Bridgeport” in the Summer 2022 issue of Connecticut Explored. Find out more about why the Nazi swastika is visible in many of the photos taken over Connecticut. ...
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Get to know local artist Corey Pane at his Artist Talk during First Friday on August 5.

Corey Pane is an artist from Connecticut. He spends most of his time breathing life into new creations, spanning a wide range of mediums and materials to create with, and focusing on the process and experience. Corey graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Hartford Art School and has shown his work in galleries and public, community spaces. He has done work with lots of bands and music related things, as well as professional athletes and other sports related things, like painting the cleats of many athletes.

He will be back at the NBMAA during our Art Summer Nights Community Day creating art live on August 18.

Learn more and register for his Artist Talk at nbmaa.org/events/artist-talk-with-corey-pane

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Greenwich painter John Henry Twachtman bought a home in Greenwich and helped to establish the town as a summer destination for artists and art students.

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Coming up this Saturday!The Planes, Trains and Automobiles walking tour is still on for Saturday, July 23 at 10:00 am. It will be hot, but water will be available. Admission to the program is $10.00 and free for Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation members. Meet at the flagpole at the end of the entrance drive. ...
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Gordon Parks became one of America's most distinguished photographers. Here he photographed women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant, June 1943 in New Britain.

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Yes those women built those Liberty ships those huge ships that take the tanks and helicopters and everything over there they're huge they put one of those ships together and our record-breaking seven days working around the clock 24/7 different shifts that was amazing
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