by CT Trust | Feb 14, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, February 24th for a special presentation by a teacher and students! Over the past academic year, history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students at the Salisbury School began a project-based learning course in public history focused on...
by CT Trust | Feb 9, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, February 17th when we will have Maisa Tisdale, board member and founder of the Mary and Eliza Freeman Center. The Freeman Houses are among the oldest houses built by African Americans in Connecticut (1822) and are located in the neighborhood once...
by CT Trust | Jan 26, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, February 10th to hear from the newest member of the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) staff, Jonathan Kinney, who is the Director of Operations/Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. He will give a refresher on SHPO’s role in...
by CT Trust | Jan 21, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, February 3rd, when we will have Jathan Martin, curator of the exhibit “I’m Buildin’ Me a Home” that was featured at Yale’s Divinity School from September to December 2020. The exhibition uses photos, text, artifacts, and a variety of...
by CT Trust | Jan 19, 2021 | Advocacy, Education
The roof of the historic Dayville Mill (also known as the Prym Mill) collapsed in 2010 and again in 2011, while in the Transfer Act program. Not only was costly remediation work being deferred, but so too was maintenance of the building. The main mill building was...
by CT Trust | Jan 15, 2021 | Education
This article was originally featured in our November 2019 Connecticut Preservation News and writeen by Catherine Labadia from the CT State Historic Preservation Office. To understand the consequence of history, it is easiest to relate the past to the present in our...
