Month: August 2020
The Merlin Band…. is BACK!
The Merlin Band is back at the Historical Society. After their first sold out show to start the series, Bob Capazzo and friends will bring their special brand of classic rock to set the mood for a perfect late-summer evening. Pack your picnic… and reserve you seat before we sell out!
Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South
An Evening with Author Adele Logan Alexander
Born during the Civil War into an affluent family of mixed race—black, white, and Native American—Adella Hunt Logan became a key figure in the fight for voting rights, especially for women of color. An intimate friend of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, an acquaintance and sometime sparring partner of Susan B. Anthony and … Read more
Horowitz Foundation Grant to Support John Henry Twachtman Online
Joint Project with Lisa N. Peters will be Definitive Catalog of Famed Impressionist’s Work COS COB, February 19, 2020 — The Greenwich Historical Society is pleased to announce that the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts has approved a grant request of $89,000 to support John Henry Twachtman Online, a joint project of the Greenwich … Read more
Landmarks Recognition Program to Recognize Properties Associated with Trailblazing Women in Honor of the Centennial of the 19th Amendment
***Mary Tyler Moore’s Georgian Home Among Structures to Receive Plaque for Design Excellence*** COS COB, March 5, 2020 — The 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, and the brave women who made it possible, inspires this year’s Landmarks Recognition Program. Four Greenwich structures owned, designed or dedicated to trailblazing women … Read more
