As we trade our Valentine’s red for St. Patrick’s green, we also move from Black History Month to Women’s History Month. Warm up to the subject with Hartford’s beloved Gwen Reed… Gwen Reed came to Hartford as the daughter of a migrant farm worker and grew up to become …
“A Survey of the City of Hartford,” manuscript drawn by Solomon Porter, 1790. 54 ½ inches by 41 inches. Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library. Solomon Porter was a prominent citizen of Hartford (merchant, grammar school principal, city clerk, etc.), and his survey map of the city became a template …
Flowery Verses from a Tough Cookie In a season of flowers, the “Sweet Singer of Hartford” floats over the Hartford History Center and reminds us that Lydia Huntley Sigourney, who loved flowers and once compared her daughter to a “thornless rose,” is still worthy of study and attention. Born the …
Caroline M. Hewins In 1882, Caroline M. Hewins had been a librarian in Hartford for only six years when, through a fledgling group called the American Library Association, she sent a questionnaire to twenty-five libraries around the country and asked: “What are you doing to encourage a love of reading …
Ella G. Brown attended Hartford Public Schools, studied Education and Sociology at Virginia State University and, two decades later, received a master’s degree from the University of Hartford. In 1943, she became Connecticut’s first African American policewoman when she joined the Hartford Police Department. Throughout the course of her twenty-six …
Hartford Spotlight on Gwen Reed (1912-1974) Gwen Reed came to Hartford as the daughter of a migrant farm worker and grew up …
Hartford Spotlight on Ann Uccello Ann Uccello was the first woman to be mayor of Hartford and the first woman to be elected …
Women’s History Month SPOTLIGHT – Singer Marian Anderson American Contralto In 1939, Marian Anderson was barred from singing in Washington, D.C.’s Constitutional …
Women’s History Month Women, even when recognized in their own times, are often not included in the history books. National Women’s History Month …
