Past Lectures

Local Revolutionary War buff, Eric Chandler, educated our audience about the Spies of the Revolutionary War!

Connecticut's Historical Gardens

American Impressionism

Guardian's of the Valley: John muir

Brown Bag Lecture: Women in the American Revolution - putting the "her" in heroics!

Tavern Food + Tavern Drink + Tavern History + Tavern Games = Tavern Fun!

Lecture featuring Keith Simpson: Our Changing Landscape over 400 years

American Vistas - from the Hudson River School to the National Parks

A Journey through the National Parks

American Farmstead Cheese & Wine Education with Plum Plums Cheese

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Great Camp Sagamore and the Rustic Movement, plus stories of the Vanderbilt Family

Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living

Honey tasting with the Queen Bee

The Power of Scenery, online discussion - April 14, 2021

Celebrating 200 Years of Frederick Law Olmsted

Winter's Past and Winter's Future

The Words that Made Us

Stephen Mather and the National Parks

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Brothers in Arms

The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

 Spirits Sugar Water Bitters: How the Cocktail Conquered the World

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Lincoln and the Press: Fake News 19th Century Style