On January 11, 2022, WHS Research Librarian Martha Smart opened the series of supplemental programming to the River, Land and Sea: Wethersfield’s Maritime History exhibit with her lecture “The River, The Sound, and The Sea”. The lecture is presented in its entirety below.

 

This series was made possible in part by a grant from the Robert Allan Keeney Memorial  Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, CT Humanities, and the generosity of our members.

(Please note that you can watch the video below full-screen after  starting the video by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner of the player’s screen).

 

On January 18, Rocky Hill Town Historian Robert C. Herron spoke to the Wethersfield Historical Society audience about Maritime Rocky Hill. His lecture is presented in the video below.

 

On February 8, 2022, WHS welcomed Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes who presented “Not Being Contented Ashore”: Connecticut’s Black Mariners. The video is available below. (Please note that you can watch the video below full-screen after  starting the video by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner of the player’s screen).