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Calendar of Events:
Butler-Cook House & Garden Walking Tour
Hartford - Ancient Burying Ground
First Thursday, May 7
Tour at 3:30 pm.
CT Landmarks hosts Ruthie Brown and Ty Tryon
Ruth Shapleigh-Brown, the Executive Director of the CT Gravestone Network, will be giving a walking tour of the Ancient Burial Ground. People can meet and park at Butler- McCook at 3:15 pm to walk down.
Parlor Talk (in the garden of the Butler-McCook House) 4:30 – 5:30: Stone cutting demonstrations in the historic garden by Ty Tryon, courtesy of Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground; Lorena Garay, Spanish guitarist; photography exhibit by Nick Lacy.
For information call CT Landmarks, 860-247-8996
Please Join Us!
Stories in Stone:
May First Thursday at the
Butler-McCook House & Garden
May 7th, 3:15-7:30 pm |
Connecticut Landmarks' Butler-McCook House & Garden & Main Street History Center will feature a special Walking Tour of Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground, a Stone Cutting Demonstration in the Victorian garden, a Photography Exhibition opening, Live Music, and the famous History Happy Hour as part of the Greater Hartford Art Council's Aetna First Thursday. The event is free with a suggested donation for wine and light refreshments.
A Walking Tour of Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground led by Ruth Shapleigh Brown, Executive Director of the CT Gravestone Network, will depart promptly from the Butler-McCook House at 3:15 and
will return by 4:30.
Stone cutter Ty Tryon of Hartford's Ancient Burying. Ground will demonstrate his craft in the Victorian garden from 4:30 to 5:30. Tryon, an active board member of the Ancient Burying Ground Association in Hartford where he coordinates conservation projects for historic gravestones, is a stone carver trained in the classic Roman "V" incised letter cutting technique and he carves replica 18th century gravestones.
The History Happy Hour will be held from 5:30-7:30 and will present the exhibition opening of Stories in Stone by Hartford-based photojournalist Nick Lacy. Stories in Stone features a series of 415 photographs of each of the markers in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground. The Happy Hour will also feature Spanish, Latin and classical music by guitarist Lorena Garay.
Photos:
The Butler-McCook House & Garden. Photo by Nick Lacy.
Selection from Stories in Stone by Nick Lacy; 2009. |
Summer Tour Guide Program
The Ancient Burying Ground Association
is sponsoring a Summer Tour Guide Program
Tour assistance will be available weekdays
from 12 noon -2:00 p.m.
June 22 through August 14
and also on
Saturday, July 4.
For more information call
Andrea Ader, 860-377-9022
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