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In collaboration with the Connecticut League of History Organization, the Norwich Historical Society is sponsoring a free virtual winter lecture series based on topics from our Walk Norwich Trail system (walknorwich.org). The four-part lecture series is from January to April and is free and open to the public. The lectures will be recorded and available on our website and social media platforms for on-demand viewing. The fourth and final lecture in our virtual winter lecture series will focus on topics from the Millionaires’ Triangle Trail. John Tschirch, former director of education and director of museum affairs and architectural historian of the Preservation Society of Newport County, will give a lecture titled: The Gilded Household: Social Life and Servants in America, 1865-1914.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney was America’s first best-selling poet and the first woman in American history to make a living by her pen. Born in Norwich in 1791, she lived here until leaving for Hartford in 1814, where she published her poems, thus earning the title “The Sweet Singer of Hartford.” Until her death in 1865, she held great affection for her birthplace, contributing a poem to be read at Norwich’s 200th anniversary celebration in 1859. Lydia Huntley was the daughter of the gardener for the Lathrop estate; Madame Lathrop, the widow of Dr. Daniel Lathrop, took great interest in this brilliant young girl and saw to it that she was educated as well as any boy, first at the East District School on Upper Washington Street across from her home, and then at the brick schoolhouse on the Green endowed by Dr. Lathrop, now the Norwich Heritage and Regional Visitors’ Center. Lydia also educated herself by reading in the Lathrops’s library, finding textbooks there with the name of an earlier pupil in that home, Benedict Arnold.
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Bright Nights enters final weeks of holiday season Updated Dec 14, 2020; Posted Dec 14, 2020 Facebook Share The Northeast’s premier holiday lighting experience in Springfield remains aglow through Jan. 6. Now in its 26th year, Bright Nights lights up the sky with an astounding 675,000 bulbs in beautiful colors adorning one-of-a-kind displays throughout the park taking visitors on a magical three-mile holiday journey. As drivers make their way into Forest Park — joining over 6 million visitors from around the world who have visited Bright Nights over the years — they will be greeted at the front gate with some giant red flowers in Poinsettia Fantasy, then continue their tour viewing displays called American Flag, Spirit of the Season, Winter Garden, Springfield Thunderbirds, MGM Springfield, Seuss Land, Letters to Santa, Garden of Peace, Jurassic World, Victorian Village, Barney Mansion, Leaping Frog, Winter Woods, North Pole Village, Toy Land, Giant Poinsettia Candles and Happy Holidays, Springfield.