Events Calendar

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Hill-Stead Museum, Brooke Martin

October 13
Freedom Trail Tour
10:30 a.m.

Tours begin at the First Church of Christ Congregational, 75 Main Street, Farmington, and end at Riverside Cemetery on Garden Street. The cost is $5 for adults and $1 for students. To make reservations, please call (860) 678-1645.

October 16
Scarecrow Contest and Fall Festival
2 to 4 p.m.
Old Stone Schoolhouse,
Corner of Red Oak Hill and Coppermine roads, Farmington.

Create a scarecrow and bring it to win a prize for the funniest, scariest, ugliest, etc. Activities will include games and crafts from the 1800s.  The schoolhouse will be open for tours.  Refreshments will be provided. 

 

October 19
Historical Society Board Meeting
 

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November 2011
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View of Rattlesnake Mountain from Colton Street, Brooke Martin

November 16
Historical Society Board Meeting
 

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Farmington Historical Society, 138 Main Street. Brooke Martin

 

Season's greetings from the Farmington Historical Society.
 

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House on Mountain Road, Brooke Martin

January 9
New Year's Gala
2 to 4 p.m.
Gridley-Case Cottage, 138 Main Street, Farmington.

Historical Society headquarters, 138 Main

Historical society members and guests are invited to attend the society's celebration of the New Year. Join us for conversation and some light refreshments.

Dr. Charles Leach will give a talk about Farmington artists, and the society’s newly restored painting by Robert Brandegee, Approaching Storm (1890), will be on display. Brandegee, who lived at 36 High Street in Farmington, taught art at Miss Porter’s School from 1880 to 1903.

Approaching Storm, by Robert Brandegee, 1890.

Ulrich Birkmaier of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford has repaired and cleaned the damaged painting and added a hundred-year-old Louisiana hardwood frame. A donation from the Alison & Nathaniel Howe Fund helped make the project possible. Ann Arcari, former  president of the historical society, led the project to restore the painting.

January 19
Historical Society Board Meeting

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Gridley-Case cottages, 138 and 140 Main Street, Brooke Martin

February
Black History Month


Cinque, by Nathaniel
 Jocelyn, 1839

February 13
Nzinga’s Daughters present
Tales of the Underground Railroad
through Song & Prose
2 to 4 p.m.
Miss Porter’s School, 54 Main St., Farmington

Nzinga's Daughters

Parking at the school; enter from Main or Garden Street.
Refreshments will be served.
Donation: $5 for adults, students are free.

February 16
Historical Society Board Meeting

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Hill-Stead Museum, Brooke Martin

March 17
Historical Society Board Meeting

March 25
Women Honoring Farmington Women
Noon to 1:30 p.m., Farmington Country Club, Farmington

The historical society will host a luncheon titled Farmington Women Honoring Farmington Women, honoring women who have made contributions in the arts, health care, politics, education, business, civic organizations, athletics, and other fields. Women are invited to select honorees for the event, which will benefit the society. The cost of the fund-raising event is $50 per person. The women chosen to be honored may be living or deceased. Please call (860) 678-1645 to receive a nomination form. Return the form and a check to the Farmington Historical Society, P.O. Box 1645, Farmington, CT 06034.

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Barn on Colton Street, Brooke Martin

April 16
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
presents poetry reading by Jarita Davis
1 p.m., First Congregational Church, 75 Main Street, Farmington

Jarita Davis will read poetry she wrote in response to stories about Underground Railroad and Amistad sites in Farmington. The International Festival of Arts & Ideas (www.artidea.org) is collaborating with cultural organizations and heritage sites throughout the state, including the Farmington Historical Society, to explore the Connecticut Freedom Trail this spring through poetry readings and other events (www.artidea.org/event_list.php).

After the poetry reading, the historical society will give a walking tour of Underground Railroad and Amistad sites in Farmington. The tour, starting at 2 p.m., will include the Congregational Church, Union Hall, the Samuel Deming house, the Deming store, Mrs. Freeman’s house, the Noah Porter house, the "Memento Mori" cemetery, the Austin Williams house, the Mendi dormitory, and Riverside Cemetery.

The cost of the event is $5 for adults and $1 for children. Please call (860) 678-1645 to reserve a space.

Jarita Davis is a poet and fiction writer who earned a BA in classics from Brown University and an MA and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Louisiana. She was the writer in residence at the Nantucket Historical Association and has received fellowships from the Mellon Mayes program, Cave Canem, and Hedgebrook. In addition, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Travel Research Grant, a Neiheisel Phi Beta Kappa Award, and a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Her work has appeared in the Southwestern Review, Historic Nantucket, Cave Canem Anthologies, Crab Orchard Review, and Plainsongs and Tuesday; An Art Project. For more information, see her website, www.jaritadavis.com

April 20
Historical Society Board Meeting

April 27
"The Way It Was," Amy Spiroto
2 to 4 p.m., Gridley-Case Cottage, 138 Main St., Farmington

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Costume exhibit at 138 Main Street. Brooke Martin

May 18
Historical Society Board Meeting

May 30
Memorial Day Parade

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Garden at Gridley-Case cottage, 138 Main Street. Brooke Martin

June 11
Farmington Library Garden & Kitchen Tour
10 to 4 p.m., Farmington homes

June 12
Historical Society's Annual Meeting
2 to 4 p.m.

The historical society invites members and guests to its annual meeting at the home of Michael Symolon, 170 Garden Street, Farmington.

170 Garden Street. Brooke Martin

June 16
Freedom Trail Tour
10:30 a.m.

Tours begin at the First Church of Christ Congregational, 75 Main Street, Farmington, and end at Riverside Cemetery on Garden Street. The cost is $5 for adults and $1 for students. To make reservations, please call (860) 678-1645.

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Old Stone Schoolhouse, Brooke Martin

July 3
Patriotic Sing-Along
1 to 3 p.m., Gridley-Case Cottage, 138 Main Street, Farmington
 

140 and 138 Main Street.

July 15
Freedom Trail Tour
1 p.m.

Tours begin at the First Church of Christ Congregational, 75 Main Street, Farmington, and end at Riverside Cemetery on Garden Street. The cost is $5 for adults and $1 for students. To make reservations, please call (860) 678-1645.

July 20
Historical Society Board Meeting
 

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August 2011
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The Meadows, Meadow Road, Brooke Martin

August
Old Stone Schoolhouse Tours
Corner of Oak Hill and Coppermine roads, Farmington.

The 1790 Old Stone Schoolhouse is open on Sunday afternoons through August 29 from 2 to 4 pm. A presentation representing a class in the 1800s will begin at 2:30, with dismissal at 3:30. The curriculum will include: reading and recitation; math; writing; a spelling bee; and recess with games of the period. Visitors of all ages are invited to participate. Attendance is free.

August 18
Freedom Trail Tour
10:30 a.m.

Tours begin at the First Church of Christ Congregational, 75 Main Street, Farmington, and end at Riverside Cemetery on Garden Street. The cost is $5 for adults and $1 for students. To make reservations, please call (860) 678-1645.

No Board Meeting

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September 2011
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Rose at "Old Gate," Main Street, Brooke Martin

September 14
Historical Society Board Meeting

September 24
Freedom Trail Tour
First Church of Christ, Main Street, Farmington

Starting at 1 p.m. at the church, the tour includes Underground Railroad and Amistad sites. The cost is $5 for adults and $1 for students. Call: (860) 678-1645 to reserve space by leaving your name, phone number, and the number of people who plan to take the tour.

September 25
Unionville Festival

The annual festival will take place on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. in the area of Union School and Clover Pinney Park.

The festival is a free, family-oriented event made possible by volunteers and the generosity of local businesses. The festival will feature local civic organizations, restaurants and merchants, as well as plenty of activities for kids and kids at heart.

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"Seen Through Time," distorted photo
of 138 Main Street, by Brooke E. Martin

 

Photos, except for canal boat,
by Brooke E. Martin. Copyright © 2006–2010.