Week of Events
Roll Call
Roll Call
Join Ben Cooper, WWII Army Combat Medic, for a morning of storytelling and sharing. Ben will facilitate this informal gathering where veterans from all branches of the service can share common experiences and make new friends. Everyone is welcome to meet our veterans and watch history come alive. SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: VETERAN BENEFITS Kristine Talarski, […]
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY – FREE VERBAL APPRAISAL
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY – FREE VERBAL APPRAISAL
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY – FREE Free verbal appraisal of your antiques FREE “EVERY” Saturday 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Bring in your antiques or bring pictures of your antiques COME DISCOVER WHAT YOUR TREASURES ARE WORTH!! Everyone welcome even if you don’t have any antiques – come watch others bring in their antiques and discover […]
Empower Virtual Networking
Empower Virtual Networking
Connect with fellow business people from your computer, tablet or phone. Empower Virtual Networking meets every Tuesday at 5:00pm via Zoom. Network with businesspeople and learn new ideas for your business and career. Whether you are a business owner, salesperson, financial advisor, marketing professional, attorney, doctor, therapist, contractor, banker, realtor, or any other profession, you […]
Invisible Years: Opening the Holocaust Drawer
Invisible Years: Opening the Holocaust Drawer
Daphne Geismar is an award winning book designer who plans, designs, and produces books on art and history for museums and publishers including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Yale University Press. Her new book, Invisible Years, is an intimate portrait of her extended Jewish family in […]
Kat’s Creative Corner | Superheroes
Kat’s Creative Corner | Superheroes
Bang! Zap! Kapow! Journey into the world of some of Connecticut’s most well-known superheroes, including the Invisible Scarlet O’Neil. Then, create your own superhero identity and design part of your costume! This episode will be released on Wednesday, August 5 at 1:00 pm. This video is free and great for children of all ages. For […]
Short Attention Span Literary Club | Drenched in Light
Short Attention Span Literary Club | Drenched in Light
This week’s story is “Drenched in Light“, by Zora Neale Hurston, an author who achieved fame in the early 1940s but whose work was subsequently largely forgotten, only to be revived in the 1970s. The story is often described as “a portrait of the artist as a young Black woman”. You can read it here: […]
Virtual Summer Concert Series | Tang & DJ Stealth in Concert
Virtual Summer Concert Series | Tang & DJ Stealth in Concert
Join us Thursday August 6 at 5:00pm for Hartford hip-hop artists Tang and DJ Stealth at our second virtual summer concert! Chat with fellow concert-goers during the YouTube Premiere! Find the concert at https://bit.ly/3gq05c9. The CHS virtual summer concert series presents the work of the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP), a statewide initiative that […]
Virtual AM Connections
Virtual AM Connections
We're taking our Friday morning Connection meetings online! Come mingle online with the business community. To attend, please register here, and you will receive an email Thursday evening with the link to the virtual meeting space. The meeting can be attended via computer, or telephone if you'd prefer to call in. Our goal is to […]
Coffee Hour | Black History Beyond the Amistad
Coffee Hour | Black History Beyond the Amistad
For this Coffee Hour, we’ll take you on a tour of items from our collection representing a spectrum of the Black experience in CT. You’ll learn about a Harlem Renaissance writer, Ann Petry, who carefully preserved artifacts chronicling the black community of Saybrook. Examine daguerreotypes by Augustus Washington, who abandoned a successful Hartford photography business […]
Antique Appraisal Day – FREE
Antique Appraisal Day – FREE
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY – FREE Free verbal appraisal of your antiques FREE “EVERY” Saturday 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Bring in your antiques or bring pictures of your antiques COME DISCOVER WHAT YOUR TREASURES ARE WORTH!! Everyone welcome even if you don’t have any antiques – come watch others bring in their antiques and discover […]
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY – FREE VERBAL APPRAISAL
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY – FREE VERBAL APPRAISAL
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY – FREE Free verbal appraisal of your antiques FREE “EVERY” Saturday 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Bring in your antiques or bring pictures of your antiques COME DISCOVER WHAT YOUR TREASURES ARE WORTH!! Everyone welcome even if you don’t have any antiques – come watch others bring in their antiques and discover […]
Meeting House Sing-along
Meeting House Sing-along
How does this work ? It is not an “open mike” event, although solos are welcomed. We’ll put some chairs in a circle and take turns singing or playing, with those who know the tune or words joining in as they wish. You can come early or come late, whatever fits your family schedule. The […]