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The Art of Remembrance: Family, Art and Memory in New England
A one-day symposium sponsored by Historic Deerfield, Inc. and the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College.
Date: Saturday, March 18th, 2017
Location: Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA
This day-long symposium will explore artistic productions of familial memory and commemoration in New England from the 1600s to the turn of the twentieth century. Often created by family members and encompassing every medium, the art of family was wide-ranging and
Does anyone know of any free CT local history traveling exhibits? Please let me know at fgillespie@hagamanlibary.org
A presentation: An Assault on History: Cultural Heritage Sites in Iraq and Syria in the Age of ISIS, will be given at the Hagaman Memorial Library at 227 Main Street in East Haven CT, April 7th at 7 p.m. by Prof. Eckart Frahm, Professor of Assyriology at Yale University. The presentation concerns the destruction of heritage sites and antiquities.
Prof. Frahm is the author of five books. In 2001 he served as epigraphist in the german excavations at Assur (Iraq). He is currently working on a Companion to Assyria as well as on a project to publish Mesopotamian commentaries both in book form and
Connecticut State Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2016
Contact: Lizette Pelletier
(860) 757-6511
Volume XXI (1821-1822) of The Public Records of the State of Connecticut is now available for purchase
(Hartford) The Connecticut State Library announces the publication of the next volume in the Public Records of the State of Connecticut series with funding from the Historic Documents Preservation Fund.
Volume 21 covers the legislative sessions of 1821 and 1822, which witnessed many significant developments: the compilation of a new state legal code
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gail Hurley
(860 704-2222)
Date: January 25, 2016
The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has chosen three newspaper titles to be digitized as a result of an additional award for $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue digitizing historically significant Connecticut newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program.
The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project Advisory Board selected New Haven's Morning Journal and Courier from 1880-1908, the Newtown Bee, from 1877-1909, and the Waterbury
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