Category: About the Authors
About the Author: Julia Pizzoferrato
Julia Pizzoferrato grew up in Burlington, Connecticut, and graduated from Lewis Mills High School. She completed her Bachelor’s in History at Western New England University in 2022. In the process, she completed a semester-long internship with the Wethersfield Historical Society and researched evidence of Irish immigration into the town between …
About the Author: Martha Smart
Martha Smart is a native of Michigan with a degree in history and secondary teaching certification from the University of Michigan. Retired from over fourteen years working in the library at the Connecticut Historical Society, she has been the volunteer librarian at the Wethersfield Historical Society since that retirement
About the Author: Claudia Lonkin
Claudia Lonkin returned to her native Connecticut after completing her university education abroad in Canada. Ms. Lonkin holds a BA in history from McGill University and is completing an MA in history from the University of Alberta. She served as the Collections Management Intern for the Wethersfield Historical Society from …
About the Author: Mark W. Anderson
Mark Anderson is retired from a career of 37 years of administration and teaching at the University of Maine. He grew up hearing stories of Wethersfield from his father, Bill Anderson. One of the treasures in his library since 1966 is The Wethersfield Story by Lois Wieder, his aunt.
About the Author: Phil Lohman
Phil Lohman had a 23 year career with the Hartford Courant’s Graphics Department. In retirement, he drew a guide to trees on Broad Street Green for the Village Improvement Association. For the Wethersfield Library he illustrated locations described in Elizabeth George Speare’s award-winning book “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, a …
About the Author: Frances S. Shedd
Frances S. Shedd was Director of the Wethersfield Public Library from 1922 to 1946, guiding the library through the period of its greatest growth and development. “As I see it,” she said, ” a public library exists only as a public servant and only by the service it gives may …
About the Author: Elizabeth Abbe
Elizabeth Abbe is the Director of Public Outreach at the Connecticut Historical Society. Growing up, her family lived on Stillman Road in Wethersfield and she went to Charles Wright grammar school and Silas Dean middle school before moving to Glastonbury. Elizabeth graduated from Wells College and then received a Masters …
About the Author: Abbie B. Dunn
Abbie Bodfish Dunn (October 4, 1913 – February 8, 2004) was born in Hyannis, MA and educated at Hyannis State Teachers College (BA) and the University of Hartford (MA). She was married to Herbert F. Dunn, a photographer, and taught school in Hyannis and Rocky Hill, CT. Abbie was …
About the Author: Larry Lock
I am a retired history and government teacher (Kewanee High School). I retired in 2000 after 35 years of teaching. My wife and our live in the Wethersfield portion of Kewanee and our daughter attended Wethersfield school district schools, graduating in 1992 from Wethersfield High School. It is a strange …
About the Author: Joseph Loconte, PhD,
Joseph Loconte, PhD, is an expert on religious freedom, faith and American foreign policy, and international human rights. In 2008, he was a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. From 1999-2006, he held the first chair in religion as the William E. Simon Fellow …