Calendar

7:30-8:30 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 27 - 28

7:30-8:30 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 31

Conversations on Historic Preservation

6:30 - 7:30 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 3

5:30 - 7:30 pm, Katharine Seymour Day House at Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 4

The Preservation Tour

2-3 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 8

Author Talk & Book Signing

6-7:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 11

Free Admission for Veterans

9:30 AM - 5 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 16

Bystander Intervention

5:30-7 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 28

Giving Tuesday 2017

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Dec 3

Holidays at Nook Farm

Noon - 6 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and The Mark Twain House & Museum

Dec 26 - 31

Family Tours

1:30 - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jan 11

Inside Private Prisons: Event Cancelled

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jan 15

Martin Luther King Day Open House

10 AM - 4 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jan 25

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Feb 8

‘Words That Changed the World’ Book Club

5:30-6:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Feb 15

Many Faiths, One Conversation

6:30-8 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Feb 22

“Wicked Hartford”

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Feb 28

A Conversation with Michelle Alexander

6 PM, Welte Auditorium, Central Connecticut State University

Mar 14

Life and Nothing More

7 PM, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Mar 15

Life on Parole

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Mar 21

The Rape of Recy Taylor – POSTPONED

7 PM, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Mar 23

Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro

5-6:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Mar 24

Behind the Scenes of a “Lovely and Beautiful House”

2-3 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Mar 29

Racial Identity in “Black Panther”

6 - 7:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Apr 7

“The Handmaid’s Tale”

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Apr 12

Harriet Beecher Stowe in Florida

5:30-7 PM,

Apr 19

Poetry as Activism

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Apr 25

Writers in Exile

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Apr 26 - 29

Stand Against Racism

10 AM - 4 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Apr 26

Claudia Rankine, “Citizen”

5:30-6:30 PM, Hartford Public Library

May 8

Annual Meeting

5:30 - 7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

May 9

#MeToo: Sexual Assault and Harassment

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

May 10

Humility and Civility in an Age of Divisiveness

6 - 8 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

May 13

Mother’s Day

Noon - 5 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

May 17

Sports Activism

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

May 31

Words That Changed the World Book Club: “Evicted,” 2018 Stowe Prize Winner

5:30-6:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jun 7

“Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor”

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jun 14

Hartford’s Problem with Affordable Housing

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jun 16

The Rape of Recy Taylor

2-3:30 PM, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Jun 17

Father’s Day

Noon - 5 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jun 19

Black Lives Matter

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jun 23

“The House on Mango Street”

11 AM - Noon, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jun 24

Connecticut’s Historic Gardens Day

Noon - 5 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jun 28

Locking Up the Vote

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 11

“Zero Tolerance” Immigration

Noon-1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 11

Writing for Change, Part I

9:00 AM - 3 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 18

Being Black in Public: When the Police are “Customer Service” for White People

Noon-1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 19

Workshop: Unpacking Privilege

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 21

Quakers, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights

2:00-3:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 23

Why “To Kill a Mockingbird” Matters

6-9 PM, The Mark Twain House & Museum

Jul 24

Workshop: Courageous Conversations 101

9:00 AM - 12 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 25

Who Do You Believe?

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 28

The Lorax

11 AM - Noon, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 28

Writing for Change: Part II

9:00 AM - 3 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 1

Still Taking a Knee

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 2

Unfiltered Conversation on Race, Part 1

6-8 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 8

Racism & White Supremacy: Charlottesville One-Year Anniversary

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 9

Andrew W. Kahrl, “Free the Beaches”

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 15

Do Words Matter? Do Actions Really Speak Louder Than Words?

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 16

Unfiltered Conversation on Race, Part 2

6-8 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 18

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

11 AM - Noon, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 22

A War on Drugs or a Public Health Crisis?

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 29

Criminalizing Homelessness

Noon - 1 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Sep 5

Stowe Prize Day

3:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Immanuel Congregational Church & Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Sep 8

Transatlantic Conversations

2-3 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Sep 20

Hopes and Expectations

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 2

Courageous Conversations

9:00 AM - 12 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 6

Students Writing with Impact

2-3:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 18

Tobacco Burn

5:30-7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 26

7:30-8:15 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 27

7:30-8:15 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 31

Courageous Conversations: Holiday Edition

7:30-8:15 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 8

Hidden Figures

5:30-6:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 10

2-3 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Nov 24 - 25

Nook Farm Museum Store Weekend

9:30 AM - 5 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and The Mark Twain House & Museum

Nov 27

#GivingTuesday

12 AM - 11:59 PM,

Nov 29

Stowe’s ‘Pets of the Parlor’

5:30-6:30 PM, The Mark Twain House & Museum

Dec 1 - 31

Museum Store Sale

9:30 AM Monday - Friday and 12 noon on Sunday, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Dec 1

“The Hate U Give”

11 AM - Noon, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Dec 5

What Should We Do About The Opioid Epidemic?

6 PM - 8 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Dec 13

Letters, Drawings and Prose: Lilly Warner at Home in Nook Farm

5:30-6:30 PM, The Mark Twain House & Museum

Dec 15

Stowe House Holiday Tour

11 AM - Noon, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Dec 22 - 31

1:30 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jan 10

Mark Twain House Annual Meeting

11 AM, New Fairfield Senior Center 33 Route 37 New Fairfield, CT 06812

Jan 21

Martin Luther King Day

10 AM - 4 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jan 24

6:30 PM, The Mark Twain House & Museum 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT

Feb 2

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Feb 9

2 PM, North Haven Memorial Library 17 Elm Street North Haven, CT 06473

Feb 9

BlacKkKlansman

2 PM, Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main St Hartford, CT 06103

Feb 9

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and The Amistad Center 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103

Feb 10

BlacKkKlansman

4 PM, Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main St Hartford, CT 06103

Feb 16

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Feb 18 - 24

1:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Feb 19

Connecticut Flower & Garden Show 2019

7 PM, East Lyme Public Library 39 Society Road, Niantic, CT 06357

Feb 21 - 24

Thursday: 10 AM – 7 PM Friday: 10 AM – 8 PM Saturday: 10 AM – 8 PM Sunday: 10 AM – 5 PM, Connecticut Convention Center 100 Columbus Blvd. Hartford, CT 06103

Feb 23

Race Matters: A Narrative 4 Workshop

1 PM - 4 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Feb 28

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Mar 2

10 AM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Mar 6

Guilford’s “Complicity” with Slavery and the West India Trade Using The Foote Collection of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

10 AM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Mar 7

7 PM - 8 PM, Guilford Free Library 67 Park Street Guilford, CT 06437

Mar 12

Community Conversation: Immigration Today

7 PM - 9 PM , Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue Southport, CT 06890

Mar 21

5:30 - 7:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Mar 23

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Mar 28

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and The Amistad Center 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103

Mar 28

For Ahkeem

5:30 - 8:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Mar 30

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and The Amistad Center 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103

Apr 6

Country Acres and Cul-De-Sacs, Connecticut Circle Magazine Reimagines the Nutmeg State, 1938-1952

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and The Amistad Center 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103

Apr 6

3 PM - 5 PM, Hartford History Center Hartford Public Library 500 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103

Apr 11

Who was Uncle Tom?

7 PM, Oliver Wolcott Library 160 South Street, P.O. Box 187 Litchfield, CT 06759

Apr 11

From the Archives: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Popular Culture

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and The Amistad Center 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103

Apr 12

3 PM , Oliver Wolcott Library 160 South Street, P.O. Box 187 Litchfield, CT 06759

Apr 13

CLHO 2019 Awards of Merit Reception

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Apr 16

5 PM to 8 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Apr 16 - 19

1:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Apr 17

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Apr 18

Comply

5:30 - 7:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Apr 20

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Apr 23

Salon by Stowe: Legacies of Slavery

3 PM , Oliver Wolcott Library 160 South Street, P.O. Box 187 Litchfield, CT 06759

Apr 25

7 PM , Oliver Wolcott Library 160 South Street, P.O. Box 187 Litchfield, CT 06759

May 4

The Healthful Home Tour

2 PM - 3 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 8

Josiah: The Story that Sparked the Civil War

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 8

5:30 PM - 7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 12

Mother’s Day

12 PM - 4 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 18

Courageous Conversations in the Classroom: Understanding and Teaching American Slavery Workshop with Dr. Bethany Jay

10 AM - 2:30 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 22

4 PM - 5:30 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 25

1:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 26

Blue Star Museum Discount

1:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

May 27 - 2

10:30 AM Monday - Saturday or 12 noon on Sunday, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 1

1:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 2

SALONS AT STOWE: A HOUSE DIVIDED

1:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 5

6 PM - 8 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Birthday: A Community Celebration

10 AM - 5 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 9

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 9

1:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 15

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 15

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 16

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 16

Father’s Day

12 PM - 4 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 21

Make Music Hartford

12 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 22

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jun 23

1 PM - 2 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jun 29

1 PM - 2 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 30

1 PM - 2 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jul 10

The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jul 11

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jul 13

Participatory Reading of Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

1 PM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jul 13

Gaining Perspective: Honing Your Point of View – Writing Workshop

9 AM - 3 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jul 20

10 AM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 and Connecticut Historical Society One Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105

Jul 21

Creative Writing for Social Justice – Writing Workshop

1 PM - 2 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jul 24

9 AM - 3 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jul 27

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Jul 28

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 3

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 4

(Updated) Bonds of Kinship, Love, and Conscience: The Beechers and the Lyman Family of Middlefield’s Lyman Orchards with author Diana Ross McCain

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 8

1 PM - 2:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 10

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 11

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 17

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 18

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 24

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 25

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Aug 31

Salons at Stowe: Part Two—Working to Overcome Barriers to Housing

1 PM - 2 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Sep 5

5:30 - 7:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Sep 7

Signs of Protest with Mike Alewitz

1 PM - 3:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Sep 12

Sons & Daughters of Thunder

6 PM - 8 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Sep 21

Museum Day

10 AM - 5 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Sep 21

(UPDATED) BONDS OF KINSHIP, LOVE, AND CONSCIENCE: THE BEECHERS AND THE LYMAN FAMILY OF MIDDLEFIELD’S LYMAN ORCHARDS WITH AUTHOR DIANA ROSS MCCAIN

1 PM - 3 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Sep 26

Daniel Read Anthony—Abolitionist Settler, Soldier, Brother

5:30 - 7:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 5

Connecticut Literary Festival

10 AM - 6 PM, Real Art Ways 56 Arbor Street Hartford, CT 06106

Oct 5

Connecticut’s Champion Pawpaw Tree

12 PM - 1:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 5

Taking Informed Action—Writing Workshop

9 AM - 3 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 11 - 13

HARTFORD MARATHON SPECIAL

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 16

One Man Dancing

5:30 - 7:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 24

Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 24

Speaking on Scrapbooks in Stowe’s Circle

5:30 PM - 7 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 25

Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Oct 26

Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour

7:30 - 8:30, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / 77 Forest Street / Hartford, CT

Oct 26

Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour // SOLD OUT

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM , Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford CT 06015

Nov 7

Prophet of Freedom Book Discussion

5:30 - 6:30 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest Street, Hartford

Nov 14

Creating Inclusive Curricula: Strategies for Incorporating Black and Latinx Studies in the Classroom—Teacher Workshop

4-5:30 PM Workshop, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest Street, Hartford

Nov 21

An evening with David Blight

6:00 - 8:00 pm, Immanuel Congregational Church / 10 Woodland Street, Hartford

Nov 29 - 1

Nook Farm Museum Store Weekend

10 am - 5 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest Street, Hartford

Dec 11

The 1619 Project / Lunchtime Community Conversation #3

12 - 1:30 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest Street, Hartford

Jan 20

Martin Luther King Day

11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / 77 Forest Street / Hartford CT 06015

Feb 6

Tamara Lanier

5:30 - 7:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest St / Hartford

Mar 5

Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker

5:30 - 7:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest Street Hartford CT

Mar 26

Roxana Robinson / Dawson’s Fall

5:30 - 7:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest St. Hartford, CT

Apr 23

Ken Barone: The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Discussion

5:30-8:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Day House Parlor / 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT

Jun 2 - 30

Facebook Book Club #1: Solitary by Albert Woodfox

24/7, Stowe Prize Book Club

Jun 20 - 30

Facebook Book Club #1: Solitary by Albert Woodfox

24/7, Stowe Prize Book Club

Jun 21 - 10

Solitary Garden

Dawn to dusk, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / 77 Forest Street / Hartford CT 06015

Jun 23

UNSPOKEN TRUTHS – A Public Forum on the Murder of George Floyd, Race Relations and the Journey Towards Equity

7 PM, Online

Jun 24

Driving While Black: A Conversation with Gretchen Sorin

7 PM, Online

Aug 1 - 31

Facebook Book Club #2: Solitary by Albert Woodfox

24/7, Stowe Prize Book Club

Aug 30 - 29

Cooking and Caring for Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s Champion Pawpaw Tree

4-6 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center /Stowe Gardens / 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT

Sep 17

Meet the Author: Roxana Robinson – 𝘋𝘈𝘞𝘚𝘖𝘕’𝘚 𝘍𝘈𝘓𝘓

6:00-7:00 PM, Zoom

Sep 23

Stowe Prize In Place Part 1: A Conversation with Albert Woodfox

7:00 PM, Online

Oct 4

Stowe Prize in Place Part 2: A Live Experience w/ Albert Woodfox, Ras Baraka, & Samaia Hernandez

7:00 - 8:30 pm, Livestream

Oct 4 - 31

Facebook Book Club #3: Solitary by Albert Woodfox

24/7, Stowe Prize Book Club

Oct 10

Sewing and Learning: Isabella Beecher Hooker and the American Women’s Suffrage Movement

2-4 PM, Online

Nov 3

Election Day Suffrage Centennial Celebration at Cedar Hill Cemetery

1 - 4:30 pm, Cedar Hill Cemetery / Isabella Beecher Gravesite / 453 Fairfield Ave, Hartford, CT

Nov 14

Sewing and Learning II: Isabella Beecher Hooker and the American Women’s Suffrage Movement

2-4 PM, Online

Feb 11

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and Union Sign New Contract

Mar 25

TRAVELING BLACK, featuring Dr. Mia Bay in Conversation with Dr. Raymond Arsenault

7:00 PM, Virtual Program

May 13

THE THREE MOTHERS: Anna Malaika Tubbs in conversation with Melinda L. Johnson

7:00 PM, Virtual Event

May 15

Afternoon making Revolutionary Mortar and Replanting the Solitary Garden

3:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 2

WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

7:00 PM, Virtual Program

Jun 10

A Close Reading of the 1619 Project (1 of 6)

6:30 PM, Online

Jun 17

A Close Reading of the 1619 Project (2 of 6)

6:30 PM, Online

Jun 24

A Closer Reading at Project 1619 (3 of 6)

6:30 PM, Online

Jun 28 - 30

SOUNDSCAPE: A Special Stowe Prize Art Project

4:00-6:00 PM, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Jul 8

A Close Reading of the 1619 Project (4 of 6)

6:30 PM, Online

Jul 10

In Words and Art: Sketching In Harriet’s Garden with Jean Mackay

5:30 PM, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Jul 15

Salons at Stowe: Telling Our Nation’s Story

7:00-8:30 PM, Virtual

Jul 15

A Close Reading of the 1619 Project (5 of 6)

6:30 PM, Online

Jul 16

Salons at Lunch: Telling Our Nation’s Story #1

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Jul 22

A Close Reading of the 1619 Project (6 of 6)

6:30 PM, Online

Aug 26

Salons At Stowe: Telling Our Nation’s Story #2

7:00-8:30 PM, Virtual

Aug 27

Lunchtime Salon: The Conversation Continues

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Sep 1

Stowe Prize Podcasts Feat. Dr. Eddie Glaude

Online, Stowe Multimedia Gallery

Sep 23

Stowe Prize 2021

6:45-8:00 pm, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Oct 9

Emergence 1

12:00 PM & 3:00 PM, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Oct 10

Emergence 2

12:00 PM & 3:00 PM, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Oct 13

Beyond Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances E.W. Harper, and Harriet Jacobs with Bonnets at Dawn

2:00-3:00 pm EST/ 7:00-8:00 PM BST, Virtual

Oct 28 - 30

Spirits: An Otherworldly Tour

45-minute tours, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Nov 10

HALFWAY HOME: Reuben Jonathan Miller with Deborah Rogala

7:00-8:00 PM, Virtual

Dec 8

The Matter of Black Lives

7:00 PM, Virtual

Dec 11

Sewing and Learning Workshop: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Politics of Pocket Purses

3:00-5:00 pm, Virtual

Jan 15

Sewing and Learning Workshop: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Politics of Pocket Purses

3:00-5:00 pm, Virtual

Jan 27

Salons at Stowe: Telling Our Nation’s Story #3

7:00-8:15 PM, Virtual

Feb 16

Zora Neale Hurston

6:30 pm, Virtual

Feb 20

Salons at Stowe: Two Artists on the Creative Endeavor and Positive Social Change

7:00-8:30 PM, Virtual

Apr 28

The Agitators

7:00-8:00 PM, Virtual

Jun 1

Stowe Prize Part I: A Big Tent Celebration for Dr. Clint Smith

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./ Hartford, CT 06105

Jun 23

Salon #1: Teaching Race History and Reading Banned Books-Conversations on Intellectual Freedom

7:00-8:30 PM, Virtual

Jun 26

CT Historic Gardens Day

12:00 PM-4:00 PM, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Jul 28

Salon #2: Teaching Race History and Reading Banned Books-Conversations on Intellectual Freedom

7:00-8:30 PM, Virtual

Aug 4

The National Votes for Women Trail: Hooker House Historic Marker Dedication

10:00-10:45 am , 140 Hawthorn St./ Hartford, CT 06105

Aug 27

In Harriet’s Garden with Kelly Radding: Botanical Drawing Workshop

2:00-5:00 pm, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Sep 22

Stowe Prize Part II: How the Word Is Passed at Nook Farm

6:30-9:00 pm, Virtual

Oct 20

Salon #3: Teaching Race History and Reading Banned Books-Conversations on Intellectual Freedom

7:00-8:30 PM, Virtual

Oct 29 - 30

The American Renaissance Tarot

Lecture: 2:00 pm; Tarot readings: 4:00-8:00 pm, The Visitor Center/ Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Oct 31

Salon #4: Teaching Race History and Reading Banned Books-Conversations on Intellectual Freedom

Monday: 3:00 or 5:00 pm, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Nov 17

7:00-8:30 PM, Virtual

Jan 14

Sewing and Learning 2023 Workshop

2:00-5:00 pm, Virtual

Feb 11

Sewing and Learning 2023 Workshop

2:00-5:00 pm, Virtual

Mar 2

Understanding Katharine S. Day’s Identity: Interpreting Sexuality in early 20th-Century New England: Four Case Studies in LGBTQIA+ History

12:00-1:30 pm, Virtual

Apr 13 - 6

Salons at Stowe Series

7:00pm - 8:30pm, Virtual

Jun 7 - 26

Virtual Social Justice Reading Circle – Stowe Prize 2023 Shortlist

12:30-1:30 pm, Virtual

Jun 10

Nook Farm Neighborhood Block Party!

3:00pm, 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford

Sep 10

Take Back the Narrative: Housing Justice

2:00p, Stowe Center Lawn

Sep 21

Stowe Prize – Big Tent Celebration

6:45 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Sep 22

Stowe Prize – Free Public Event

5:00pm - 8:00pm, 10 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT 06105

Oct 2

Salons at Stowe: Abolition and Suffrage During Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Lifetime

6:30 - 7:30 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Oct 21

VIRTUAL | Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project (CWTEP)

4:30 - 6:00 pm, Zoom Link

Oct 21

IN PERSON | Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project (CWTEP)

4:30 - 6:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Katharine Seymour Day House

Oct 27 - 28

Spirits at Stowe: Candlelit Evening House Tours

6:00 - 7:00 pm & 7:00 - 8:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Oct 28

VIRTUAL | Afro-Caribbean Roots of Spiritualism

4:30 - 6:00 pm, Zoom Link

Oct 28

IN PERSON | Afro-Caribbean Roots of Spiritualism

4:30 - 6:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Katharine Seymour Day House

Nov 3

Author Talk with Alycia D. Jenkins

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Katharine Seymour Day House

Nov 29

Salons at Stowe: Curator Talk with Katie Heidsiek

12:00 - 1:00 pm, Zoom

Dec 13

Salons at Stowe: Finding Our Place in Technology

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Dec 27

Salons at Stowe: Food Sustainability through People and Law

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Jan 5

January Social Justice Reading Circle

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Stowe Center, Visitor Center

Jan 10

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Day House

Jan 20

Salons at Stowe: Into the Vault! 19th Century Medicine Box

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Stowe Center, Visitor Center

Jan 24

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Day House

Feb 2

February Social Justice Reading Circle

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Stowe Center, Visitor Center

Feb 14

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Day House

Feb 17

Spirits at Stowe: All That Makes Life Bright (21+ Event)

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Stowe Visitor Center

Feb 28

VIRTUAL | Salons at Stowe: Agents of Their Own Emancipation: Enslaved Women’s Letters to Colonial Governments

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Virtual

Feb 28

IN PERSON | Salons at Stowe: Agents of Their Own Emancipation: Enslaved Women’s Letters to Colonial Governments

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Day House

Feb 28

Specialty Tour: Agents of Their Own Emancipation

5:00 - 5:45 pm, Stowe Visitor Center

Mar 1

The Power of a Woman’s Vote

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Stowe Center, Visitor Center

Mar 6

6:00 - 8:00 pm, The 224 EcoSpace

Mar 13

March Social Justice Reading Circle

6:00 - 7:00 pm,

Mar 19

Virtual Program – Mental Health and Disability

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Virtual

Mar 27

Salons at Stowe: Into the Vault: Cat Scrapbooks

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Day House

Apr 10

April Social Justice Reading Circle

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Day House

Apr 20

Garden of Literacy

12:00 - 5:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Apr 20

Garden of Literacy – Poetry Workshop

1:00 pm - 2:30/3:00 pm, Day House Back Parlour

Apr 20

Garden of Literacy – Sci-Fi Writing Workshop

1:00 - 4:00 pm, Stowe House Twins Room

Apr 20

Inheriting Freedom

3:00 - 4:00 pm, Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Apr 24

Salons at Stowe: Literary Activism Locked Up

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Katharine Seymour Day House

May 8

May’s Social Justice Reading Circle

6:00 - 7:00 pm, 77 Forest Street, Hartford, CT 06105

May 18

1:15 - 2:15 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

May 18

Salons at Stowe | The Great American Novel: Says Who???

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

May 22

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Stowe Center, Day House

Jun 8

The Lawn Party at Nook Farm

11:00 - 3:00 pm, 351 Farmington Ave. Hartford, CT

Jun 15

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Jun 15

1:15 - 2:15 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Jul 20

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Jul 20

1:15 - 2:15 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 17

1:15 - 2:15 pm, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Aug 17

Stowe Prize: Public Program

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Stowe Center, Katharine S. Day House

Sep 11

Reading for Change

VIRTUAL

Sep 18

6:30 - 7:30 pm, Immanuel Congregational Church, 10 Woodland Street

Sep 18

Stowe Prize: Free Social Justice Fair

5:30 - 6:30 pm, Immanuel Congregational Church, 10 Woodland Street

Sep 21

The Evolution of a Revolutionary

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 9

Reading for Change

6:00 - 7:00 PM, VIRTUAL

Oct 10

7:00 - 8:30 PM EST, Stowe Visitor Center / Zoom

Oct 12

Bread and Puppet Theater

6:00 - 7:15 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Lawn

Oct 16

“The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin” with author Susanna Ashton

6:00 - 7:00 PM, Katharine Seymour Day House

Oct 18

6:00 - 7:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 18

Conjuring Spirits | Spirits at Stowe

7:00 - 8:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 19

4:30 - 6:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Lawn

Oct 19

6:00 - 7:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 19

7:00 - 8:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 25

7:00 - 8:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 25

Beyond the Veil: A History of Spiritualism

6:00 - 7:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 26

4:30 - 6:00 PM, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Oct 26

6:00 - 7:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Oct 26

7:00 - 8:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Nov 1

Make It Craftivism: Creative Expression for a Cause!

4:00 - 5:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center

Nov 2

1:00 - 3:00 PM, Stowe Visitor Center Back Gallery

Nov 13

Reading for Change

6:00 - 7:00 PM, VIRTUAL

Nov 16