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Mr. Moore Speaks to SHS Students About His WW2 Experiences

January 17, 2019

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We've featured cheerleaders and field hockey playe

We've featured cheerleaders and field hockey players, and now its time for baseball! This is the baseball team from the 1947 Stonington High School yearbook.

#localhistory #community #athletics #students #teamsports #team #baseball #history #StoningtonCT #PawcatuckCT #MysticCT #memories #family

Join us for the world premiere screening of the ne

Join us for the world premiere screening of the new film Rollie McKenna: Life and Photography presented by Historic Stonington and @unitedtheatre with support from Connecticut Humanities and the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation.

Using personal recollections, interviews with family and friends, local and national archives, Rollie McKenna: Life and Photography explores the unconventional life and career of Rollie McKenna (1918–2003). McKenna documented an entire generation of American arts and culture thanks to her prolific career as a photographer, which afforded her both personal and professional independence. Photography allowed McKenna to travel the world and cultivate her craft free from the typical expectations of American women in the mid-twentieth century. It also offered her access to a privileged circle of authors and artists. Her subjects included Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, Robert Frost, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Alexander Calder, Helen Keller, and Robert Graves, to name just a few. Her local photographs document the local landscape of Stonington Borough as a colorful fishing village populated with artists and academics. Life and Photography will appeal to audiences interested in 20th century literature, local history, portrait photography, architecture, literary history, popular culture, queer culture, feminist culture, and poetry.

Tickets are $10 and are available on the United's website.

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Don't forget to join us tomorrow evening for our s

Don't forget to join us tomorrow evening for our second Night Sky event on the Lighthouse grounds (program begins at 7:30). We will be exploring the mythology behind the constellations with Leslie F. Brown, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Physics, Astronomy & Geophysics at Connecticut College, and Douglas Gobeille, Teaching Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Rhode Island.

Bring a blanket or chair and join us for an evening of stargazing!

Pictured here are the Signs of the Zodiac from Smith's Illustrated Astronomy, 1852. Gift of Harriet Babcock Brown.

#stargazing #astronomy #community #themoreyouknow #constellations #astrophysics #lighthouse #StoningtonCT #familyfriendly #history #mythology

Don't forget to join us Wednesday evening for our

Don't forget to join us Wednesday evening for our last America 250 program - Rhetoric and Reason. Enjoy an evening of stirring and thought-provoking speeches from American history that explore the values and troubles of our country over the past 150 years. This is sure to be an evening to remember, so don't miss out!

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West Broad Street, 1910, showing the Star Bowling

West Broad Street, 1910, showing the Star Bowling Alley and Lawton's Auto Supply Store. Gift of Estelle Ferraro Misto.

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Join us for our second Night Sky program at the Li

Join us for our second Night Sky program at the Lighthouse Museum, next Thursday, October 8th from 7pm to 9pm. Bring your own blanket or chair and learn about the mythology behind the constellations with Leslie F. Brown and Douglas Gobeille. The presentation will begin at 7:30 so be sure to arrive before then and dress for the weather. A suggested donation of $25 per group/blanket would be appreciated, and can be given the night of via Venmo or cash.

We look forward to seeing you and spending another evening under the stars!

#localhistory #conncollege #URI #stargazing #astronomy #constellations #mythology #nightsky #StoningtonCT #lighthouse #community #lifelonglearning #themoreyouknow #astrophysics

Attention Mystic and Stonington locals! We recentl

Attention Mystic and Stonington locals! We recently received some wonderful staff photos of the Cottrell Lumber Company in Mystic, and need your help in identifying the people in this photograph. Thank you!

#localhistory #memories #family #history #community #cottrell #mysticct #stoningtonct #1980s #paintdepartment #nostalgia

Join us for our last America 250 program - Rhetori

Join us for our last America 250 program - Rhetoric and Reason. This event will feature five great speeches from American history to explore the power of oration to effect cultural, societal, and political change. Free and open to the public - this program was generously grant-funded by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.

#localhistory #history #community #America250 #oration #publicspeaking #speech #activism #civilrights #suffrage #nativehistory #womenshistory #society

⏳ Last call. Our September membership perks are al

⏳ Last call. Our September membership perks are almost gone.

Join before the month ends and get a free guest pass, plus a spot in our one-time New Member Tour of the archives.

Don't miss your chance! Join today and see you soon.

#HistoricStonington #StoningtonCT #LastChance #FallMembershipDrive #JoinHistoricStonington #ConnecticutHistory #SupportLocalHistory

It's another blast from the past! This time its th

It's another blast from the past! This time its the Cheerleading squad from the 1966 Stonington High School yearbook.

#localhistory #athletics #sports #cheer #cheerleading #highschool #StoningtonCT #community #memories #team #squad

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