THE HART HOUSE AND EXHIBIT GALLERY HOURS.  

Beginning Saturday, May 23, the Hart House will be open to the public from 1 to 3 PM, Saturdays and Sundays, through September 6th. Admission is $ 5p/p, free to members. Beginning May 19, the Hart House will be open for private tours depending upon the availability of a Society guide.   Reservations  must be made no less than 7 days in advance either via email at contact@saybrookhistory.org or 860 395-1635. Admission- $10 p/p, free to members. The Archives Building is open to the public year-round on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9AM till Noon.

THE ARCHIVES BUILDING and HERITAGE GARDENS ARE OPEN YEAR-ROUND

The Archives Building is open to the public year-round only on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-AM till Noon.  Special appointment visits are possible.  Call 860-395-1635 or email contact@saybrookhistory.org with your specific request details.

The Hart House Heritage Gardens are open to the public year-round.

LECTURE AT THE KATE
REVOLUTION IN CONNECTICUT: A Community Conversation
Sunday, April 12, 1 – 3PM, Tickets: $10 + $2 fee

Join Dr. Matthew Warshauer, professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, for an invigorating conversation about how Connecticut became radicalized for independence from Britain. It is a story of East of the Connecticut River against West of the river, and a political coup that shaped our States’s and the nation’s future. We were more than the Provision State; Connecticut stood as the forefront of Revolutionary thought!

Tickets are available at The Kate ticket office, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook, or online at: www.thekate.org/event/revolution-in-ct/

LECTURE AT THE KATE
AWAKENINGS AND REVOLUTIONS: The Harts, Saybrook, and the New Nation
Featuring Elizabeth Normen
Sunday, April 26, 1 – 2PM, Tickets: $10 + $2 fee

How was Saybrook impacted by the Revolutionary War? Based in her new book, Awakenings and Revolutions: The Harts, Saybrook, and the New Nation, historian Elizabeth Normen brings the Revolution home to Saybrook and talks about the Hart family, and others, as soldiers on the battlefield, privateers on the high seas, and civic leaders bolstering the homefront.

This talk launches Awakenings and Revolutions, commissioned and published by the Old Saybrook Historical Society.

Tickets are available at The Kate ticket office, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook, or online at: www.thekate.org/event/awakenings-and-revolutions

UPPER CEMETERY LECTURE TOUR
Sunday, May 24, 4 PM, Tickets: $5

Memorial Day weekend, the public is invited to join Scott Carson, historian and member of the town’s Municipal Cemetery Committee, for a lecture tour of the Upper Cemetery. The cemetery, established in 1750, is located at the north end of Main Street. Scott has researched the individuals and families buried there, especially the veterans, from the American Revolutionary War through the Korean conflict.

The tour costs $5 per person.