Yoga at the Lighthouse
The Old Lighthouse Museum 7 Water Street, Stonington, CT, United StatesWednesdays at 9am. Please register at https://chbluebirdyoga.com/stonington-lighthouse
$15
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Big Lux at the Lighthouse Museum
The Old Lighthouse Museum 7 Water Street, Stonington, CT, United StatesWe are so excited to be hosting the wildly talented Big Lux at the Lighthouse Museum this fall! Tickets are available through our website. This event will take place outside on the lawn at the Lighthouse Museum, so be sure to bring your blankets and lawn chairs to enjoy this sunset concert overlooking Little Narragansett Bay. Tickets must be purchased...
$15 – $25
Stonington Cultural District Commission
The R. W. Woolworth Library & Research Center 40 Palmer Street, Stonington, CT, United StatesLangdon Hammer: James Merrill’s Stonington
The R. W. Woolworth Library & Research Center 40 Palmer Street, Stonington, CT, United StatesPanel Discussion of Anthony Bailey’s Book In the Village
The La Grua Center 32 Water Street, Stonington, CT, United StatesNew England’s Other Witch Hunt
The La Grua Center 32 Water Street, Stonington, CT, United StatesEveryone knows about the witch hunt at Salem in 1692. But few people know that in the years before Salem, Connecticut was New England’s fiercest witch prosecutor. The first person hanged for witchcraft in New England came from Windsor, and every single person indicted for witchcraft in Connecticut in its early years was convicted and hanged.Walt Woodward brings this extraordinary and nearly forgotten story to life in a lecture that begins with the Protestant Reformation and traces its history all the way through the Hartford Witch hunt of the 1660’s – a nightmare of trials and executions that preceded Salem by a generation. He also shows how Connecticut’s Governor John Winthrop, Jr. and his friend Rev. Gershom Bulkeley intervened to transform Connecticut from New England’s most aggressive witch hunter to a colony that completely ended executions for witchcraft thirty years before they even began at Salem. Along the way, he answers all those questions you’ve wondered about the early witch hunts, and explains why almost everyone in the 1600s believed that witchcraft was very real, and terribly dangerous.