All are invited to join us for EHS’s Connecticut History Book Club. Offered in collaboration with Ivoryton Library, EHS hosts this quarterly book club to explore the state's past through both fiction and non-fiction works, highlighting key events, figures, and themes that shaped the state or played a larger role in America’s history. We will focus on works that illuminate the bring marginalized stories to the forefront, offering a deeper understanding of Connecticut's diverse history. Join us for insightful discussions that connect the past to the present, revealing the histories that shaped our state.

Please join us at Hills Academy (22 Prospect Street-parking and entrance in rear) for a book discussion lead by EHS Director, Melissa Josefiak. This event is FREE and lite refreshments will be provided. Register below!

For August’s meeting we are reading Awakenings and Revolutions by Elizabeth Normen.

Book Bio from Amazon.com:

“Awakenings and Revolutions: The Harts, Saybrook, and the New Nation is a new look at the residents of the Old Saybrook Historical Society’s Gen. William Hart House and the Hart family of Saybrook, Connecticut (as the town was called until 1856). Moving between the Connecticut River estuary, Hartford, New London, Boston, New York, and as far as Ohio and the West Indies, the story reveals the Harts’ surprising connections to major moments of Connecticut’s and our nation’s early history.

As we celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary, Awakenings and Revolutions illustrates the ways families and towns were swept up in the great experiment in democracy and nation building that transformed us from British subjects to American citizens.”