Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Sunday May 18 #America250 Revolutionary Day 011
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryPatty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A post on our situation at IU, now up on Dailykos www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...dailykos.comDOGE terminated our NEH project grant, and what that means.On Thursday evening we received notification that our open 3-year NEH grant, “Establishing an undergraduate Book Studies minor at Indiana University” was terminated, effective immediately. We were one... 46131
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Symbolic sunset over the neighborhood family farm, an oasis embedded in the growing suburb that is #Glastonbury CT, now closed and destined for housing development. A block away from home and the best corn ever. @glastonburyct.bsky.social 0161
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 07/03/2025People's Magazine October 1997 Bill Faude and the recreated Joseph Steward's Museum of Curiosity at the Old State House in Hartford. Mr. Steward's Museum was originally setup at the Connecticut State House in 1796. 020
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 07/03/2025hsgct.org/event/member...hsgct.orgMembership Meeting - CONNECTICUT RIVER FERRIES: Past, Present & Future by Captain Paul Costello - Historical Society of GlastonburyCONNECTICUT RIVER FERRIES: Past, Present & Future Glastonbury Rocky Hill Hadlyme 010
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Connecticut River Ferries: Past, Present and Future by Captain Paul Costello. March 18 041
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Connecticut River Ferries: Past, Present and Future by Captain Paul Costello. March 18 010
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 23/02/2025www.wfsb.com/2025/02/23/h... Seth Cheney Mansion is gone.wfsb.comHistoric home deemed ‘uninhabitable’ following Manchester fire, officials sayA heavy fire struck a historic home in Manchester on Sunday morning. 020
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 21/02/2025wake up honey new hog just dropped 221192146
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 14/02/2025How did #medieval sailors cook on voyages? Discovery of #cooking vessels and a brazier in a mid-13th century AD English #shipwreck suggest they would have been able to cook onboard the ship, removing the need to go ashore at mealtimes. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.82 0243
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryJ. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Minute Man Park & local organizations planned a March 22 event called “‘Spies Among Us’: Intelligence gathering by the British Army & Provincial Congress” ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War's start. Due to personnel cuts in the NPS, it’s cancelled. www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...nps.govEvent Details (U.S. National Park Service) 1176
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 12/02/2025New exhibit at the Museum on the Green, Curious Collectibles. It will at the Museum until the end of April. It’s about what people collect. 020
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryConnecticut Guild of Puppetry @ctpuppetry.org · 03/12/2024Now available, help support the Guild and celebrate 50 years of the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry with this limited edition enamel pin. Limited to just 50 available for sale. $10 + shipping. ctpuppetry.org/shop/50th-an... Designed by @chrisgran.de 0115
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryMuseum of the American Revolution @amrevmuseum.bsky.social · 06/02/2025#OnThisDay in 1778, the Franco-American Alliance was signed. Joachim du Perron, Comte de Revel was a French Army officer who served during the Revolutionary War. The Franco-American victory at the Siege of Yorktown proved the value of the alliance. From our collection: bit.ly/40Q8Bdf 072
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Puppets from Connecticut’s Old State House Theater. #CTOSH Show opened in 1998. Puppets on display at Museum on the Green for limited engagement. Seen for first time in 20 years. Designed and built by graduates of #UCONN Puppetry Arts Program. Based on Museum of Curiosity 1797. 130
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Two headed cow in recreated 1797 Curiosity museum at CT Old State House since 1997 and two headed cow puppet displayed at our in Glastonbury for limited engagement. 2025 020
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The part of your brain the creates and the part of your brain that edits are different. When you edit while writing, you switch your mode of thinking and can gum up the works, so to speak, knocking yourself out of your groove. Correct obvious mistakes, but knock out your pages and edit them after. 1414025359
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 28/01/2025just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important. 6166591253
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 27/01/2025coffeeordie.com/history-coff...coffeeordie.comA Brief History of Coffee in the United StatesCoffee. It’s the first thing on our mind as soon as we hear the sound of our alarm clock each morning. 020
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2025chng.it/KSMcphYz6P Save a Connecticut tradition. The First Company Governor’s Foot Guard was organized in October 1771 and is the oldest military organization in continuous existence in the United States.chng.itHave you seen this petition yet?Stand with The First Company Governor’s Foot Guard! 020
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Historical Society of Glastonbury’s Museum on the Green 030
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Pottery by the Wangunk People of what is now called Glastonbury, Connecticut. 082
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The John Hollister site in South Glastonbury Connecticut. Site of large 17th century farm complex on the Connecticut River, 1640-1711. Yemeni coin found, printed in 1693. 030
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Historical Society of Glastonbury took the show on the road in 2022. Suffragettes were marching all over Glastonbury town center. 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Welles-Shipman-Ward Property in Glastonbury. 1755 Connecticut River mansion built by a shipbuilder family. Welles built three privateer ships during the American Revolution. 021
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Museum on the Green in Glastonbury CT. The John Hollister Archaeology Dig-10 years is a special exhibit on loan. Admission is free. Donations are greatly appreciated. Hsgct.org 010
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryNancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This coin corpus was popularized in 2020, when the AP put out this scintillating story. apnews.com/article/anci...apnews.comAncient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirateWARWICK, R.I. (AP) — A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet's oldest cold cases. 1113
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryNancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025My new article: "Linking Seventeenth-Century Yemen to Colonial New England: A Closer Look at Silver Coins across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans" in Am Journal of Numismatics (2024). Tracing the journey of silver coins from Yemen to Madagascar to colonial America, many found by metal detectorists. 612731
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryNancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Yes one was excavated by the CT state archaeology team at the Hollister site in South Glastonbury. Nice online documentation: osa.uconn.edu/home/recent/...osa.uconn.eduThe Hollister Site, South Glastonbury (Nayaug) (ca. 1640s-1711) | Office of State ArchaeologyThe Hollister Site is a large 17th-century farm complex situated on the east bank of the Connecticut River in present day South Glastonbury. This area, once ... 032
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 20/01/2025HSG Family in front of the Museum on the Green 010
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Historical Society of Glastonbury in Connecticut Museum on the Green Welles-Shipman-Ward Historic Property HSGCT.org 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Archaeology Site in South Glastonbury/ Special Exhibit Currently on loan at the Museum on the Green. Items include a Jesuit ring, a 1693 coin from Yemen and many other interesting artifacts. HSGCT.org 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 19/11/2024John Hollister Site, Archaeology Dig on the Connecticut River in South Glastonbury. Ten years and still digging. Artifacts from the site are on loan at the Museum on the Green for a special exhibit. 020
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The town, community and historical society helped save the former 18th century home of Daniel Wright and the Gaines Hotel form the mid 19th century at the Glastonbury, Connecticut town center from destruction. 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Our historic house property in South Glastonbury is open during special events and for periods during the summer. Contact the Museum on the Green for more information. HSGCT.org 010
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 18/11/2024We will have a new outdoor exhibit space at the Museum on the Green in Glastonbury, Connecticut. 020
Reposted by Glastonbury CT HistoryLiz Gil @lizcgil.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Riverbend Bookshop is a *wonderful* independent bookstore in Hartford County that has always loudly & unapologetically loved everybody. If you’re able, consider supporting them by ordering books online instead of on Amazon! www.riverbendbookshop.com 1232
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 18/11/2024At the Museum on the Green, besides the permanent exhibit being updated, we have changing exhibits AND now a special "pop up exhibit" for a limited time, Victorian clothing worn in Glastonbury. Beautiful clothing in fine condition that has not been seen in over 50 years. Until the end of the year. 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 18/11/2024At the Museum on the Green, besides the permanent exhibit being updated, we have changing exhibits AND now a special "pop up exhibit" for a limited time, Victorian clothing worn in Glastonbury. Beautiful clothing in fine condition that has not been seen in over 50 years. Until the end of the year. 010
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Welles-Shipman-Ward historic property in South Glastonbury CT 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The hearth will be going at the Welles-Shipman-Ward House on Sunday, November 17th, 2025, for a Thanksgiving celebration. 010
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Museum on the Green, Glastonbury CT 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Welles-Shipman-Ward Property in South Glastonbury, CT 000
Glastonbury CT History @glastonburyct.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Museum on the Green in Glastonbury, CT 010
