Organization City Wethersfield

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

This SHARP grant will fund 3D digital imagery by Capture Visual Marketing of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum’s historic structures in 2022. This project is part of a strategic initiative to increase the museum’s online presence and accessibility to the public, K-12 teachers, students, and scholars worldwide, through the digitization of the collections.

This project will digitize and make available online a database of records listing people of color who lived and worked in Wethersfield from its 17th century founding through the mid 19th century. These records compiled over the course of 10 years by WHS volunteer Research Librarian Martha Smart and researcher Diane Cameron contain information on approximately 500 individuals. WHS will use this information to partner with Wethersfield Public Schools on a Black history curriculum and project.

Wethersfield Historical Society?s Maritime Wethersfield exhibit explores the ways we remember and misremember Wethersfield?s maritime past, its true history, its diversity, and how it shaped our community. In conjunction with this exhibit, the society will present a program series on the history, impact, and diversity of maritime Wethersfield that will consist of seven lectures and three musical performances spanning January through June.

The Wethersfield Heritage Commission wishes to expand the Heritage Walk Interpretive Trail and is requesting $4,999 to cover some of the costs for the fabrication of the new exhibits.

The project will incorporate three (3) additional sites and five (5) interpretive panels:
1. Trinity Episcopal Church, 300 Main Street,
2. The Wood Parcel – Great Meadows Conservation Trust, Middletown Avenue,
3. A new businesses and visitor attractions map, Main/Church Street.

COVID Relief Fund for Museums grants are OPERATING SUPPORT grants for larger museums and other 501c3 nonprofit organizations that provide humanities-based projects and activities for the general public (i.e., museums, historic houses, historical societies, cultural centers, and other types of non-profit organizations that offer activities like interpretive exhibitions, discussion-based public programs, or walking tours to the general public). This funding was made available to larger organizations with full-time staff and annual operating budgets of at least $450,000, with priority given to those with annual operating budgets of $500,000 or more. *These grants are administered by CT Humanities, with funding provided by the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD)/Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) with funding allocated to the State of Connecticut through the CARES Act.

Funding for Connecticut nonprofit humanities and cultural organizations facing financial hardship resulting from COVID-19, funded by the CARES Act via the National Endowment for the Humanities.

* This relief grant was funded by the Connecticut Humanities Fund made possible by the Connecticut General Assembly.

Funding for Connecticut nonprofit humanities and cultural organizations facing financial hardship resulting from COVID-19, funded by the CARES Act via the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Funding will allow the Wethersfield Historical Society to survey the current collection and deaccession and dispose of objects that do not fit the approved scope, or are redundant, creating more room for newer collection objects. In the course of this process WHS will identify collection objects and themes that can be used for future exhibitions. The current object collection is heavily focused on the 19th century, and in order to reflect more recent periods of Wethersfield’s history, the society endeavors to add more 20th and 21st century objects to the collection. Collections management software will be evaluated and potentially upgraded or migrated elsewhere with a goal of having better intellectual and physical control of one of its most important assets and be able to use that asset to the greatest advantage for the service of its community.

This project is an engagement point between the local community and indigenous communities as a continuation of our 2017 program ?Here We Stand: Native History and Culture from Pyquag to Wethersfield and Beyond.? Wethersfield Historical Society is committed to continued inclusion of Native History and lifeways in our programming. This 2-part project utilizes the expertise of native chef Sherry Pocknett and Pequot tribe member Gary Carter Jr. in a foraging and foodways program and presentation.

The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum will formulate a new exhibition and orientation program for their new Education and Visitor Center. Funding will be used to develop an exhibition showcasing some of their archaeology finds, an expanded new interpretive panel of the Webb Family and property, a transformation of the Executive Director’s office into a permanent American Revolution gallery, and a short video about the histories of the WDS Museum and the NSCDA-CT.