Frederic Collin Walcott: Conservation Pioneer – Third Thursday Talk at the Connecticut State Library Friday, April 5, 2013
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State Archivist Mark Jones will deliver a talk at the Connecticut State Library on Thursday, April 18, 2013 from Noon to 12:45 on Frederic Collin Walcott and his career as a conservationist. Walcott’s political career began as a member of the Connecticut State Senate representing Norfolk from 1925-29, serving as president pro tempore from 1927-1929. Governor Trumbull appointed Walcott to the Board of Fish and Game Commission as its President and as the first President of the new State Water Commission, 1927-1929. In 1928, he was elected to the United States Senate and served as the first chairman of the Special Committee for the Protection of Wildlife Resources. On this committee, Walcott passed on to the Senate a favorable report on a bill creating a duck stamp, required of all persons with hunting licenses, the proceeds of which went to wetlands reclamation for wildfowl migrating in the spring and fall. Today the Duck Stamp funds many programs of the Federal Wildlife Service.
Walcott was defeated for reelection in 1934 and served as head of the Department of Public Welfare from 1935-1939. Although Walcott never left memoirs, his letters and later speeches made in 1941 and 1942 to wildlife conservationists show his take on the conservation movement in the first half of the twentieth century.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
12:0o p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Connecticut State Library ~ Memorial Hall
About the Speaker: Mark Jones has been working on Frederic Collin Walcott for several years. On May 31st of this year, he shall retire after thirty years as the State Archivist, and one of his activities will be writing the biography. He has used resources here in the State Library, the large Walcott Collection at Yale University, other smaller collections at Stanford University and at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. He has also received assistance and encouragement from Walcott’s surviving granddaughter, Alexandra (Sandy) Walcott, who annually comes up from New York City and opens up the house which her grandfather built in 1909 for the spring, summer and fall. She has graciously invited Jones to visit the house, exchanged stories about her grandfather and lent him photographs and manuscripts that are not in the collection at Yale.
About the State Library: The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to citizens of Connecticut, as well as the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The Connecticut State Archives and the Museum of Connecticut History are components of the State Library.
Author of The Indian Great Awakening to Speak at the Connecticut State Library Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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Dr. Linford Fisher, Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, will be at the Connecticut State Library, on Thursday, March 21, 2013 from Noon to 12:45 to discuss his new book, The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America. Using a variety of court documents, land deeds, letters, material culture, and church records, he traces the selective adoption of Christian ideas and practices by Native individuals prior to and during the Great Awakening, and the subsequent emergence, post-awakening, of a distinct Indian separatism and partial rejection of Anglo-American religious institutions in response to growing proto-racism. Dr. Fisher provides a new framework for understanding religious conversion and he brings together Native history that is not often considered together: religion, land, use of court system, and local intra-tribal politics. He argues that the Great Awakening was not as formative in the lives of Natives (or as widely embraced) as previously assumed. Dr. Fisher did considerable research at the State Library. Fisher’s talk is part of the State Library and Museum of Connecticut History’s Third Thursday Brownbag Lunchtime speaker series which features a variety of speakers on various aspects of Connecticut history. All programs are free and open tot he public.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Noon – 12:45 p.m.
Connecticut State Library ~ Memorial Hall
About the Speaker: Linford D. Fisher is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. Dr. Fisher received his doctorate from Harvard University in 2008. His first book, was an in-depth study of long term cultural and religious change among American Indians in eighteenth-century Rhode Island, and Long Island, N.Y. Dr. Fisher has published essays in Ethnohistory, the New England Quarterly, and Harvard Theological Review, and has received fellowships from Harvard University, the American Antiquarian Soceity, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the American Philosophical Society, Brown University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Fisher’s current book project is a study of indentured servitude and slavery among the African and Indian populations of colonial New England and the Atlantic world.
About the State Library: The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum and administrative services to the citizens of Connecticut, as well as employees and officials of all three branches of government. Visit the State Library at http://www.ctstatelibrary.org
John E. Cook, Conspirator – Third Thursday Talk at the Connecticut State Library – Feb. 21, 2013 Thursday, February 14, 2013
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Local historian Cynthia Goetz will present the story of John E. Cook at the State Library, Thursday, February 21, starting at noon in Memorial Hall. Cook, a stone-cutter’s son from Haddam, Connecticut became a Captain in John Brown’s army and helped light the spark that ignited the Civil War. Goetz illustrates Cook’s journey from his earliest days in Haddam, including his time spent listening to the fiery sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, through the battlefields of Bleeding Kansas, to his adventures with John Brown at Harper’s Ferry and his final escape and capture on the Underground Railroad. Goetz, who resides in the boyhood home of John E. Cook in Haddam, has done considerable research on Cook – the man whom John Brown considered a traitor to the cause, but whose tombstone describes him as a “noble patriot”.Goetz’s talk will be presented in Memorial Hall, Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford as part of the State Library and Museum of Connecticut History’s Third Thursday BrownBag Lunchtime speaker series. This series features a variety of speakers on various aspects of Connecticut history. All programs are free and open to the public and attendees should feel free to bring their lunch.
Thursday, February 21, 2013Noon – 12:45
Connecticut State Library ~ Memorial Hall
About the State Library: The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to citizens of Connecticut, as well as the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The Connecticut State Archives and the Museum of Connecticut History are components of the State Library. Visit the State Library at www.cslib/org
Author of Jim Calhoun Biography – Shock the World: UConn Basketball in the Calhoun Era – to Speak at the Connecticut State Library Thursday, January 3, 2013
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Peter Burns, Jr., will be at the Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, on Thursday, January 17, 2013 from Noon to 12:45 to discuss his new book, Shock the World: UConn Basketball in the Calhoun Era. Burns’ book is a riveting season-by-season, game-by-game, and player-by-player biography of Jim Calhoun’s winning program. Shock the World: UConn Basketball in the Calhoun Era paints a vivid portrait of college basketball in the last twenty-five years and highlights the challenges Calhoun overcame to become the best program builder of all time and, in Burns’ view, the greatest coach of his generation. Burns’ talk is part of the State Library and Museum of Connecticut History’s Third Thursday BrownBag Lunchtime speaker series which features a variety of speakers on various aspects of Connecticut history. All programs are free and open to the public.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Noon – 12:45
Connecticut State Library ~ Memorial Hall
About the Speaker: Peter F. Burns, Jr., was born and raised in Connecticut and attended the University of Connecticut. In 2002 the University of Connecticut Alumni Association named him as its outstanding young alumnus of the year. He is a professor of political science at Loyola University in New Orleans.
About the State Library: The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to citizens of Connecticut, as well as the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The Connecticut State Archives and the Museum of Connecticut History are components of the State Library.
Connecticut Made Holiday Gift Ideas…circa 1895-1955 Monday, December 10, 2012
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Need some ideas for Holiday Gifts this year? Try the Museum of Connecticut History’s guide to gifts manufactured right here in Connecticut! From American Flyer Trains to Royal Portable Typewriter, there’s a gift for everyone on your list.
The catch – the gifts featured in this advertisement collection might be hard to find – the advertisements date from 1895 to 1956. They hark back to an era in which gift-giving was more gender-specific and in which men were led to believe that women truly wanted and appreciated the gift of an electrical appliance.
Did you ever give or receive any of these gifts? Tell us your stories of your own “Made in Connecticut” Christmas!
Author of Post Road & Iron Horses to Speak at the Connecticut State Library Tuesday, November 6, 2012
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Richard DeLuca, Historian and Transportation Engineer, will be at the Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Thursday November 15, 2012 from Noon to 12:45 to discuss his new book, Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam. This is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. DeLuca’s recounting of the race to build the Farmington Canal, the Great Epizootic Epidemic of 1872; the rise of the cable car and other engaging stories will be of great interest to anyone wanting to learn more about the development of transportation in Connecticut. DeLuca’s talk is part of the State Library and Museum of Connecticut History’s Third Thursday BrownBag Lunchtime speaker series which features a variety of speakers on various aspects of Connecticut history. All programs are free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Noon – 12:45
Connecticut State Library ~ Memorial Hall
About the Speaker: Mr. DeLuca has worked as a transportation planner in Connecticut for over ten years and written on regional transportation for Connecticut History and the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online. He is the author of We, the People! Bay Area Activism in the 1960s.
About the State Library: The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to citizens of Connecticut, as well as the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The Connecticut State Archives and the Museum of Connecticut History are components of the State Library. Visit the State Library at www.cslib/org
Author of The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe to Speak at the Connecticut State Library Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Chris Pagliuco, Historian and Educator, will be at the Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Thursday October 18, 2012 from Noon to 12:45 to discuss his new book, The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe: Smuggled Through Connecticut. Pagliuco’s book is a carefully researched account of two regicides, William Goffee and Edward Whalley who fled England after killing the tyrannical King of England. Pagliuco’s talk is part of the State Library and Museum of Connecticut History’s Third Thursday BrownBag Lunchtime speaker series which features a variety of speakers on various aspects of Connecticut history. All programs are free and open to the public.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Noon – 12:45
Connecticut State Library ~ Memorial Hall
About the Speaker: Chris Pagliuco is a freelance writer who specializes in seventeenth-century colonial history. His interest in the regicides originated in his graduate studies in history at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He teaches high school history in Madison, Connecticut, and serves as town historian in Essex, Connecticut, and on the editorial team of Connecticut Explored, a quarterly history publication. He lives with his wife, two daughters and two dogs in Ivoryton, Connecticut.
About the State Library: The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to citizens of Connecticut, as well as the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The Connecticut State Archives and the Museum of Connecticut History are components of the State Library.
A Sign of Freedom: Intertwined History of Amistad & the American School for the Deaf Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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Kim A. Silva will discuss interconnected history of the American School for the Deaf and the Amistad Affair, Thursday, September 20, at the State Library starting at noon in Memorial Hall. Silva, Coordinator, Amistad Tours at the Farmington Historical Society and a Board Member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail, will explore how the leader of the Amistad known as Sengbe Pieh, Joseph Cinque and the “Black Prince” drew his strength from his Mende culture, storytelling and mime and how in antebellum America how this African, who spoke no English, was able to prevail in three courts of law, and capture the interest and sympathy of the American public. Silva will also show how the history of Amistad Affair became intertwined in the history of the American School for the Deaf.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
12:00 – 12: 45
Memorial Hall
About the Speaker: Kim A. Silva is a Deaf Historian and researcher of Amistad history since 1998. Ms. Silva is Coordinator of the Amistad Tours for the Farmington Historical Society. She is an author of A Sign of Freedom (unpublished) and artist who contributed an illustration for the Amistad quilt created by the FHS for the Freedom Schooner, Amistad. She presented at Deaf History International in 2000 and shared the oral history from Curator Emeritus, David Halberg about the many links between the founders of the American School for the Deaf and their ties to the Amistad Africans. As a former teacher at the American School for the Deaf, she worked with her students to create the Amistad history portion of the website Deaf Is… She most recently presented at Deaf History International in July 2012.
Silva’s talk will be presented in Memorial Hall, Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford as part of the State Library and Museum of Connecticut History’s Third Thursday BrownBag Lunchtime speaker series. This series features a variety of speakers on various aspects of Connecticut history. All programs are free and open to the public and attendees should feel free to bring their lunch.
About the State Library: The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to citizens of Connecticut, as well as the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The Connecticut State Archives and the Museum of Connecticut History are components of the State Library. Visit the State Library at http://www.cslib.org |
2012-2013 Third Thursday at the State Library Brown Bag Lunch Series Monday, August 27, 2012
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The State Library is pleased to announce its 2012-13 Third Thursdays at the State Library brown bag lunch series. This year’s speakers will cover a wide range of Connecticut history. Please share this information with your patrons and watch for reminders about upcoming programs.
Third Thursdays at the
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford
12:00-12:45 PM
Memorial Hall
September 20 – Kim Silva, Coordinator of Amistad Tours for the Farmington Historical Society – A Sign of Freedom: Intertwined History of Amistad & the American School for the Deaf
October 18 – Chris Pagliuco, Historian and Educator – The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe: Smugged Through Connecticut
November 15 – Richard Deluca, Historian and Transportation Engineer – Connecticut’s Post Road & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam.
January 17 – Peter F. Burns, Jr., Professor of Political Science at Loyola University New Orleans – Shock the World: UConn Basketball in the Calhoun Era
February 21 – Cynthia Goetz – John E. Cook, Conspirator: The story of a stone-cutter’s son from Haddam, Connecticut who became a Captain in John Brown’s army and helped light the spark that ignited the Civil War
March 21 – Linford D. Fisher, Assistant Professor of History at Brown University – An Indian Great Awakening? Rethinking Native Religious Change in Early America
April 18 – Mark Jones, State Archivist – Frederic Collin Walcott: Conservation Pioneer
May 16 – Jon Purmont, Professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University – Ella Grasso: Connecticut’s Pioneering Governor
June 20 – Kevin Johnson, Connecticut State Library, portrays –William Webb, an African American Civil War Soldier from Connecticut
More information is available at www.cslib.org or by calling 860-757-6510. Funding for this series is provided by the Connecticut Heritage Foundation.
Day Trips with Kids: Fun, Free and Family-Friendly Monday, July 2, 2012
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Spend some time exploring the seat of state government through tours of Connecticut’s Supreme Court, State Capitol, Museum of Connecticut History and Connecticut’s Old State House.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
(recommended for children 8 and up and parents too! )
Activities include:
- Connecticut Invents! Discover many famous and not so famous Connecticut inventors and inventions during this hands-on activity, which uses objects and photographs from the museum’s collection of Connecticut industrial history.
- visit the State Capitol’s Hall of Flags, which displays flags Connecticut soldiers have carried into battle, and also learn about the legislative process.
- learn about the historic Connecticut Supreme Court courtroom by visiting the room where Connecticut’s most important legal ruling have occurred.
- visit Connecticut’s Old State House, where Connecticut’s democracy was born and learn who made it happen. Additionally, the museum has exciting exhibits chronicling Connecticut’s rich history.
Lunch will be available for purchase at the Legislative Office Building’s cafeteria from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.
Parking for the State Capitol, the Supreme Court and the Museum of Connecticut History is available in the Legislative Office Building garage located off of Armory Road.
Connecticut’s Old State House is a short walk through Bushnell Park. They also offer validated parking for $5.00 at the Constitution Plaza South parking garage.
Schedule:
Tours of the Legislative Office Building & State Capitol
(approximately one hour in duration, tours start at the LOB)
210 Capitol Ave., Hartford
10:15 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
1:15 p.m.
2:15 p.m.
Connecticut Invents! Museum of Connecticut History
(approximately 30 minutes)
231 Capitol Ave, Hartford
9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m.
Visits to the Supreme Court courtroom
(approximately 45 minutes in duration)
231 Capitol Ave., Hartford
9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m.
Tours of Connecticut’s Old State House
(approximately one hour in duration)
800 Main Street, Hartford
For more information, visit the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch http://www.jud.ct.gov
