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Locally Grown History

The Barkhamsted Historical Society is proud to be participating in the first annual, "Locally Grown History - It's In Your Backyard" program. The program is designed to promote historical resources as well as agricultural assets located within Litchfield County. The project is being led...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Richard on 09-17-2008
2008 program series completed.

2008 program series ended May 9, 2008. Hope you didn't miss them! The Historical Society wrapped up our annual program series for 2008. Held on the second Friday of the month from February to May, the programs were well attended and we hope you were able to make it to at least some of them. The program...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 05-01-2008
2007 Program Series completed

2007 Program Series completed. The 2007 program series was completed on Friday, May 13 with a talk by Dianne Thurston on the diary of Deidamia Shepard, a Barkhamsted resident living on a farm in the late 1890s. Each year the Barkhamsted Historical Society sponsors a program series held on the second...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 05-13-2007
Historical Society's 2006 Annual Lecture Series Wraps Up

Historical Society's 2006 Annual Lecture Series Wraps Up The Historical Society annual lecture ended on Friday, May 12 with a program on 19th century chairs and chair makers from Barkhamsted and the surrounding area. We hope you were able to attend one or all of the programs. Next year we will again...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 05-12-2006
Historical Society Program Series

Historical Society Program Series The Historical Society annual program series concluded with the May 13, 2005 presentation by Marc Banks some of his archeology work across Connecticut, including some test pits done at the Squire's Tavern. Join us in February 2006 for our next series. We offer four...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 05-13-2005
2004 Program Series concluded

2004 Program Series concluded The Barkhamsted Historical Society completed a series of programs on May 14, 2004. We want to thank Paul Hart (items from the Historical Society collection), Mike Day (school text books before the Civil War), Lynne Landgraf and Laura Mazza-Dixon (18th century popular music...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 05-14-2004
2003 History Program Series

2003 History Program Series Our sixth annual lecture series is now history. We hope you were able to attend one or more of the four programs. We want to thank our guest speakers: blacksmith Bob Valentine (Early American Iron Hardware), Roxanne Lovell (Colonial and Victorian Gardens), Walt Landgraf (As...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 06-18-2003
2002 History Program Series

2002 History Program Series Our fifth annual program series has just ended. Hope you got a chance to attend one or more of these programs. Each year we offer a series of four programs- one each month from February to May on the first Friday of the month. Each program starts at 7:00 at the Barkhamsted...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 05-22-2002
2001 History Program Series

2001 History Program Series We just concluded our 4th annual program series with our last program on Friday, May 4, 2001. Walt Landgraf showed slides and talked about the results of months of research on the Squires Tavern and Ullmann Farm (see photo below). We want to thank Walt, Jim Smith and Melvin...

Posted to Current Topics (Weblog) by Paul on 05-04-2001

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