Join journalist and Historic Stonington Board President Adi Ignatius for an in depth interview with Pequot Tribal Member and Museum Educator, Nakai Northup. This event is free and open to the public and will take place on Sunday, October 20th at 5pm at the La Grua Center.
Join author Harry Martin as he discusses his new biography of Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer. Learn about the complex family relationships, life experiences and tragedy that made Captain Palmer one of the most well-respected and famous sea Captains of his time. Free and open to the public. La Grua Center, August 28th at 6pm.
Join us for our Annual Meeting on Sunday, July 14th at 4pm at the LaGrua Center. Author Michael J. Tougias will be speaking on King Philip's War. Tougias is the author and co-author of 30 non-fiction books including his latest, Extreme Survivial: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds. More about Mr. Tougias can be found at www.michaeltougias.com.
A short reception will follow. This program is free and open to the public.
Everyone 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.
Artist Patrick O'Brien has undertaken a new painting depicting the 1814 Battle of Stonington. This talk will explore the evolution of this idea and the research that is the foundation of a painting that represents historical fact. O'Brien’s paintings capture the glory and the grandeur of the age of sail. He is a full-time professional artist and illustrator and his art has appeared in...
Join us on Wednesday, July 19 at 6 pm at the La Grua Center for a fascinating program about Ida Lewis. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (Rowman-Littlefield), the true story of America's heroic female lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis, join us for a presentation by the author, and filmmaker, Nico Raineau. Ida...
Please join us on Sunday, July 16th at 4 pm at the La Grua Center for the 127th Annual Meeting of the Stonington Historical Society. Immediately following the business meeting and elections, join us for a conversation with incoming SHS President (and Harvard Business Review Editor in Chief) Adi Ignatius about highlights of his career covering Tiananmen Square, interviewing Vladimir Putin, and other...
Join us Thursday evening, July 13th at the La Grua Center for a fascinating lecture by Captain Bill Palmer. An Army paratrooper during the time of the Vietnam War, Palmer is now one of New England's leading authorities on underwater wrecks and has videotaped dozens of submarines, U-boats, and sunken vessels lost in East Coast waters. As owner-operator of the...
