Funding allows Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation to offer the lecture Lost in a Laughing-Gas World: The Life of Horace Wells in Fact and Fiction. Author Michael Downs will expound upon the historical Wells and how his tragic life became the subject of his most recent novel. A collaboration between Cedar Hill and Bushnell Park Foundation, the program will take place on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm at the Keeney Memorial Cultural Center, Wethersfield.