Fall 2015 VOLUME 13/NUMBER 4

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Thanks to the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation for featuring our new CT History For Kids "Teaching With Historic Places" Lesson Plans in Connecticut Preservation News! Modeled on the NPS program, the 10 plans written for 3rd grade feature historic places with maps, primary documents, and suggested activities. Bringing historic preservation to the classroom!

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American women have had the vote for 100 years - but how were they educated in the early years of the American Republic? Learn more about women's education at this one-day symposium on 11/15 with a diverse slate of presenters discussing the the school's legacy and relevancy to today. Walking tours of Litchfield's town center will focus on the daily life of female Academy students. Info: litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/symposium

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Loved the Grating the Nutmeg episode on the academy!
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Congratulations to our friend Chris Wigren, a frequent contributor to the magazine!"Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places" - Christopher Wigren a finalist for inaugural Bruce Fraser "Spirit of CT" Award at #2019CTBookAwards @HPLCT

Winner announced at ceremony on 10/20. Tickets at CTBook.org

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Read more about this important LGBTQ story In our Fall issue out now. Get your copy at ctexplored.org ...
Palmer Warner House in East Haddam Opens As Trailblazing LGBT Site
Preserved letters, diaries, photographs, a house and its gardens tell the story of Frederic Palmer and Howard Metzger, two men who met fell in love in the 1940s and lived together as a couple as openly as society allowed.
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The Commission is now accepting submissions for our commemorative poster contest! If you or anyone you know would like to submit a design, more information can be found here: votesforwomenct.com/poster-design-contest/ ...
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Our sponsors, Connecticut historians Diana McCain and Carol Whitmer, can help you find your family connections!
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Tracing several generations of my maternal ancestors here in Connecticut revealed a number involved in important events in American history. :)
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Enjoying our Fall issue on Families? Want to know more about your family tree? Visit our partner the Godfrey Memorial Library for resources and assistance! Godfrey Memorial Library-more info at Godfrey.org ...
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Do you know about 'Ghost Signs'? Have a favorite in CT? Post one below and it could be featured in our Spring issue! ...
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One of my very favorite phenomena!!!!! Can’t wait to see the suggestions!
I always enjoy passing the “Smoothie Foundation Garments” sign on the old Strouse, Adler factory in New Haven (Olive Street). I am linking here since I do not own my own photo of it. commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strouse,_Adler1.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
When I first read this I thought you meant something like ectoplasm or vapors. 😬 I love looking for the “ghost” signs you’re talking about.
My boys love the "spaghetti warehouse" sign in Hartford!
Love them! Of course can’t think of one at the moment 😂
From Oakville, CT!
Meeker’s Hardware, Danbury
In New London.
Norwalk. Is it a ghost when it has been repainted? Smoothie in New Haven was also repainted.
Just remembered this one: www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=TpC0xzOF&id=D03EB4D3EA694F40956B38A7F50BB3AC77C5479...
The old Curtiss Company flying school at Bridgeport Airport. They ran the airport when it was initially built in 1927. Yep, same company as Glenn Curtiss and the Curtiss Wright company of subsequent aviation fame. www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/glenn-curtiss-was-here-19082214/?fbclid=IwAR1m-0xVCptXdQF4Y...
What is a ghost sign please??
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Calling all social studies teachers! Come visit the Connecticut Explored table this Friday!Come see us at the CT Council for the Social Studies conference this Friday, 10/4, at CCSU. We'll have a table with all of our student-ready resources for sale including "African American Connecticut Explored" which will be handy for the new required curriculum, PLUS free back issues of CT Explored! ...
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In a Nicholls genealogy we have a copy of the author George Huntington Nicholls names slaves his grandfather Philip Nicholls owned in Stratford, CT
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Connecticut History Out Loud! GRATING THE NUTMEG PODCAST 0 By Elizabeth Normen on May 23, 2019 Podcasts Brought to you by Connecticut Explored and the State Historian at UConn Hartford LISTEN HERE Grating the Nutmeg offers stories about Connecticut history that you can listen to on your phone, ta...
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Come hear Carol Luckenbach talk about how to use our Venture Smith’s Colonial Connecticut in the classroom! October 1, 5 p.m. at R J Julia Booksellers in Madison ...
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From our friends Litchfield Historical Society!

'By the Force of its Own Merits' is a one-day symposium that will round out a two-year celebration of the Litchfield Female Academy, a progressive educational institution that instructed over 3,000 young women between 1792 and 1833. A diverse slate of presenters will discuss the structure and curriculum of the Academy, illuminate its role in the development of educational and social opportunities for women, and speak to the school’s legacy and relevancy within current scholarship. The symposium will also feature Educator-led walking tours of Litchfield’s town center focusing on the daily life of Female Academy students and an in-depth look at Female Academy materials from the archival and museum collections.
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We'll have a table at the CCSS conference on Oct 4th! Plenty of new materials and information! Hope to see teachers there!Join us the CT Council for the Social Studies Conference on October 4 at CCSU--we'll have books for sale and we're leading two sessions: one about Venture Smith's Colonial Connecticut (grades 5 - 8) called "Colonial Connecticut: Teaching from a New Perspective," and one about resources for teaching the Constitution of 1818 (grade 8 - high school) called "Democracy and Connecticut's Constitution of 1818."

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