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On Friday, May 19th from 5:30 to 7:00pm, the Wilton Historical Society will hold a reception to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions: Commitment to Community: The Lives of Laurent Clerc and Francis Clerc Ogden and The Town Book: E. Boyd Smith’s 20th Century Wilton.
Before the Wilton Historical Society project, Julie Hughes said the town knew of about 12 to 15 enslaved people in Wilton. Her project unearthed dozens more.