Hidden Histories - Black Lives and Abolition in Southeastern Connecticut

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CT Open House Day Event 📅 Saturday, June 14 | 🕙 10 AM–2 PM | 📍 Brookside Farm Museum 

Join us for a special event featuring new research and exhibits honoring Black history in southeastern Connecticut. 🔎at 12:00 pm Tom Schuch will share the emerging story of Amos Watrous, a Black child listed as living in the home in the 1850 census, and how his story helps shape Brookside's future exhibits. 📚 at 12:30 pm Dr. Jennifer Rycenga, author of Schooling the Nation, will present on Prudence Crandall’s Canterbury Female Academy and the brave Black women who attended, highlighting their ties to local towns and the abolitionist movement. 

Explore the newly preserved 1845 Christian Freeman newspaper, discovered in the museum walls, and help envision how this history can enrich East Lyme's story. 

Free admission. 

Questions? Email brooksidefarmmuseum@gmail.com or call 860-333-8793. 

Books will be available for sale at the event.