Rockville’s Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Master of Still Life

Rockville’s Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Master of Still Life

Friday November 10th at 7PM. Town Council Chambers, Mansfield Town Hall. Vernon Historical Society’s Museum Director Jean Luddy will be presenting a program titled “Rockville’s Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Master of Still Life.”

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Pink Ravine Cemetery Program

Pink Ravine Cemetery Program

We had an exceptionally beautiful morning for our tour of the Gurley Cemetery on Bonemill Road given by Micheal Carroll. A large number of folks came out to learn more about the recent rehabilitation and cleaning of existing and missing grave markers in the older section of the cemetery.

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MHS Awarded Two Grants

MHS Awarded Two Grants

We are ringing in the New Year with some great news!  We have been awarded an $8,400 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant (CTCFOSG).  We were one of 624 organizations in Connecticut that were awarded CT Cultural Fund support totaling $16M from CT Humanities (CTH). The CTCFOSGs are part of $30.7M of support allocated to arts, humanities, and cultural nonprofits through CTH over the next two years by the CT General Assembly and approved by Governor Ned Lamont.

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Indigenous People of Mansfield, Connecticut

Indigenous People of Mansfield, Connecticut

Thousands of years before Europeans arrived, Mansfield, like every town in northeastern Connecticut, was inhabited by Indigenous people.  The oral traditions preserved by their descendants tell of their occupying the land from time immemorial, and evidence assembled by archaeological investigations confirms those traditions.

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