Glastonbury CT History
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Historical Society of Glastonbury in Connecticut
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Sunday May 18 #America250 Revolutionary Day
May 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sunday May 18 #America250 Revolutionary Day
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A post on our situation at IU, now up on Dailykos www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
DOGE terminated our NEH project grant, and what that means.
On Thursday evening we received notification that our open 3-year NEH grant, “Establishing an undergraduate Book Studies minor at Indiana University” was terminated, effective immediately. We were one...
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April 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A post on our situation at IU, now up on Dailykos www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Symbolic sunset over the neighborhood family farm, an oasis embedded in the growing suburb that is #Glastonbury CT, now closed and destined for housing development. A block away from home and the best corn ever. @glastonburyct.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Symbolic sunset over the neighborhood family farm, an oasis embedded in the growing suburb that is #Glastonbury CT, now closed and destined for housing development. A block away from home and the best corn ever. @glastonburyct.bsky.social
People's Magazine October 1997
Bill Faude and the recreated Joseph Steward's Museum of Curiosity at the Old State House in Hartford. Mr. Steward's Museum was originally setup at the Connecticut State House in 1796.
Bill Faude and the recreated Joseph Steward's Museum of Curiosity at the Old State House in Hartford. Mr. Steward's Museum was originally setup at the Connecticut State House in 1796.
March 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
People's Magazine October 1997
Bill Faude and the recreated Joseph Steward's Museum of Curiosity at the Old State House in Hartford. Mr. Steward's Museum was originally setup at the Connecticut State House in 1796.
Bill Faude and the recreated Joseph Steward's Museum of Curiosity at the Old State House in Hartford. Mr. Steward's Museum was originally setup at the Connecticut State House in 1796.
Connecticut River Ferries: Past, Present and Future by Captain Paul Costello. March 18
March 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Connecticut River Ferries: Past, Present and Future by Captain Paul Costello. March 18
Connecticut River Ferries: Past, Present and Future by Captain Paul Costello. March 18
March 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Connecticut River Ferries: Past, Present and Future by Captain Paul Costello. March 18
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Seth Cheney Mansion is gone.
Seth Cheney Mansion is gone.
Historic home deemed ‘uninhabitable’ following Manchester fire, officials say
A heavy fire struck a historic home in Manchester on Sunday morning.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Seth Cheney Mansion is gone.
Seth Cheney Mansion is gone.
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wake up honey
new hog just dropped
new hog just dropped
Farmers had paintings of their animals commissioned centuries ago and always wanted them painted real chunky. I like the idea of some farmer having people round, pointing at a painting and saying "yeah I had that done, that's my actual pig, he's the fattest guy".
February 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
wake up honey
new hog just dropped
new hog just dropped
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How did #medieval sailors cook on voyages?
Discovery of #cooking vessels and a brazier in a mid-13th century AD English #shipwreck suggest they would have been able to cook onboard the ship, removing the need to go ashore at mealtimes.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.82
Discovery of #cooking vessels and a brazier in a mid-13th century AD English #shipwreck suggest they would have been able to cook onboard the ship, removing the need to go ashore at mealtimes.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.82
February 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
How did #medieval sailors cook on voyages?
Discovery of #cooking vessels and a brazier in a mid-13th century AD English #shipwreck suggest they would have been able to cook onboard the ship, removing the need to go ashore at mealtimes.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.82
Discovery of #cooking vessels and a brazier in a mid-13th century AD English #shipwreck suggest they would have been able to cook onboard the ship, removing the need to go ashore at mealtimes.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.82
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Minute Man Park & local organizations planned a March 22 event called “‘Spies Among Us’: Intelligence gathering by the British Army & Provincial Congress” ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War's start.
Due to personnel cuts in the NPS, it’s cancelled.
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Due to personnel cuts in the NPS, it’s cancelled.
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
Event Details (U.S. National Park Service)
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February 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Minute Man Park & local organizations planned a March 22 event called “‘Spies Among Us’: Intelligence gathering by the British Army & Provincial Congress” ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War's start.
Due to personnel cuts in the NPS, it’s cancelled.
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
Due to personnel cuts in the NPS, it’s cancelled.
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
New exhibit at the Museum on the Green, Curious Collectibles. It will at the Museum until the end of April. It’s about what people collect.
February 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New exhibit at the Museum on the Green, Curious Collectibles. It will at the Museum until the end of April. It’s about what people collect.
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Now available, help support the Guild and celebrate 50 years of the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry with this limited edition enamel pin. Limited to just 50 available for sale. $10 + shipping.
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Designed by @chrisgran.de
ctpuppetry.org/shop/50th-an...
Designed by @chrisgran.de
December 3, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Now available, help support the Guild and celebrate 50 years of the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry with this limited edition enamel pin. Limited to just 50 available for sale. $10 + shipping.
ctpuppetry.org/shop/50th-an...
Designed by @chrisgran.de
ctpuppetry.org/shop/50th-an...
Designed by @chrisgran.de
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#OnThisDay in 1778, the Franco-American Alliance was signed.
Joachim du Perron, Comte de Revel was a French Army officer who served during the Revolutionary War. The Franco-American victory at the Siege of Yorktown proved the value of the alliance.
From our collection: bit.ly/40Q8Bdf
Joachim du Perron, Comte de Revel was a French Army officer who served during the Revolutionary War. The Franco-American victory at the Siege of Yorktown proved the value of the alliance.
From our collection: bit.ly/40Q8Bdf
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#OnThisDay in 1778, the Franco-American Alliance was signed.
Joachim du Perron, Comte de Revel was a French Army officer who served during the Revolutionary War. The Franco-American victory at the Siege of Yorktown proved the value of the alliance.
From our collection: bit.ly/40Q8Bdf
Joachim du Perron, Comte de Revel was a French Army officer who served during the Revolutionary War. The Franco-American victory at the Siege of Yorktown proved the value of the alliance.
From our collection: bit.ly/40Q8Bdf
Puppets from Connecticut’s Old State House Theater. #CTOSH Show opened in 1998. Puppets on display at Museum on the Green for limited engagement. Seen for first time in 20 years. Designed and built by graduates of #UCONN Puppetry Arts Program. Based on Museum of Curiosity 1797.
February 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Two headed cow in recreated 1797 Curiosity museum at CT Old State House since 1997 and two headed cow puppet displayed at our in Glastonbury for limited engagement. 2025
February 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Two headed cow in recreated 1797 Curiosity museum at CT Old State House since 1997 and two headed cow puppet displayed at our in Glastonbury for limited engagement. 2025
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The part of your brain the creates and the part of your brain that edits are different. When you edit while writing, you switch your mode of thinking and can gum up the works, so to speak, knocking yourself out of your groove. Correct obvious mistakes, but knock out your pages and edit them after.
January 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The part of your brain the creates and the part of your brain that edits are different. When you edit while writing, you switch your mode of thinking and can gum up the works, so to speak, knocking yourself out of your groove. Correct obvious mistakes, but knock out your pages and edit them after.
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just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.
January 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.
chng.it/KSMcphYz6P Save a Connecticut tradition. The First Company Governor’s Foot Guard was organized in October 1771 and is the oldest military organization in continuous existence in the United States.
Have you seen this petition yet?
Stand with The First Company Governor’s Foot Guard!
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January 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
chng.it/KSMcphYz6P Save a Connecticut tradition. The First Company Governor’s Foot Guard was organized in October 1771 and is the oldest military organization in continuous existence in the United States.
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#OtD 25 Jan 1787 Daniel Shays and 800 followers, mostly poor farmers and war veterans protesting against debt burden, marched to Springfield to seize the federal arsenal, but were repulsed and defeated by the Massachusetts state militia stories.workingclasshistory.c...
January 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
#OtD 25 Jan 1787 Daniel Shays and 800 followers, mostly poor farmers and war veterans protesting against debt burden, marched to Springfield to seize the federal arsenal, but were repulsed and defeated by the Massachusetts state militia stories.workingclasshistory.c...
Historical Society of Glastonbury’s Museum on the Green
January 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Historical Society of Glastonbury’s Museum on the Green
Pottery by the Wangunk People of what is now called Glastonbury, Connecticut.
January 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pottery by the Wangunk People of what is now called Glastonbury, Connecticut.