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SUMMARY:Classic Cars:  The History of the James Melton Museum – Virtual Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets Here \nThe History of the James Melton Museum – Virtual Lecture \nWednesday\, April 27\, 2022 at 7:00pm via Zoom \nTickets: $5.00 per household.  \nThe Zoom link will be included at the bottom of your confirmation email under Additional Details. The Zoom link will also be posted on the Online Event page on Eventbrite and emailed to you 24 hours and 1 hour before the event. \nHosted by the Norwalk Historical Society and the Weston Historical Society \n\nCalling all antique car enthusiasts! Join us for the virtual lecture\, “Classic Cars: The History of the James Melton Museum\,” with guest presenter John J. O’Leary. \nLearn about James Melton\, ‘America’s Favorite Tenor’ and former Weston\, CT resident\, who assembled one of the country’s prized collections of antique cars\, and in 1948 opened the James Melton Museum of Antique Automobiles just off the Merritt Parkway in Norwalk\, CT. Presenter John J. O’Leary will share the history as well as unpublished photos of Melton’s famous museum\, highlighting the vast collection of unique automobiles\, as well as dive into a family connection O’Leary has to Melton’s former friend and personal car restorer\, Gus Reuter. A question and answer session will conclude the lecture. \n \nAbout the Presenter: \nJohn J. O’Leary IV has a unique connection to the James Melton Museum. His wife’s grandfather (Gus Reuter of Reuter’s Coach Works) restored the cars in Melton’s famous collection. O’Leary has spent the past decade organizing unpublished images of Melton’s cars and other items that Melton gave to Reuter like awards and signed photos. O’Leary’s goal is to visually re-create both the Melton Museum (1948 – 1953) and the James Melton Autorama (1953 – 1961) through old photos and various ephemera from those who visited both locations five decades ago. \nAs an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford and Post University (Conn.)\, John O’Leary has taught a wide variety of courses in Business\, Economics\, Strategy and International Business at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has worked on a variety of projects around the globe in cities like Prague\, Singapore\, Bangkok\, and Dubai for companies such as Pratt & Whitney\, OTIS elevator and Prague Studios. O’Leary has an active research agenda\, exploring topics related to the history of the automobile including famed restorer Gustav Reuter (Reuter’s Coach Works\, the Bronx\, NY)\, noted antique car collector James Melton (Melton Museum & James Melton Autorama)\, as well as the saga of the 1939 Mercedes-Benz 540K ‘Aktion P’ (chassis # 408377) from WWII. As the archivist for Reuter’s Coach Works\, O’Leary provides answers to questions for private individuals and has contributed assistance in research to companies such as RM Sotheby’s\, Bonhams\, and Bloomberg Intelligence for investment-quality automobiles in the global automotive scene. \nMelton Museum Image from John J. O’Leary \n\nRefund Policy:All ticket purchases are non-refundable\, except when the event is cancelled by the Norwalk Historical Society. No credit or refund is available if you do not show up; or if you leave an event early for any reason. No refund will be available if you attend a program and are dissatisfied with its presentation or content. \n\n The Norwalk Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. To donate or become a member visit this link. \nMake sure to follow us on Facebook @NorwalkHistSoc and on Instagram at @norwalkhistoricalsociety for all the updates.
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SUMMARY:Holiday Open House at Mill Hill
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We will have a food donation box at the event.\n\nPlease Note: All visitors will be required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status when inside the Mill Hill Historic Park buildings. The buildings at Mill Hill Historic Park are City of Norwalk property and masks are required inside all City of Norwalk buildings.\n\nMill Hill Historic Park is located at 2 East Wall Street in Norwalk\, CT. Handicapped and limited mobility parking on site. General parking is at the HSC building on the corner of East Wall Street and Park Street. Follow blue parking signs.\n\nExperience the Norwalk Historical Society’s new exhibition\, “Norwalk’s Changing Communities 13\,000 BC – 1835\,” which was funded in part by grants from Connecticut Humanities and the City of Norwalk Historical Commission and curated by Elizabeth Pratt Fox. This comprehensive\, interactive exhibition is family friendly with hands-on activities and games. Learn about the arrival of the first people of Norwalk\, the Indigenous People\, their contact with the Europeans and the development of Norwalk during the 17th and 18th centuries as well as during the dawn of the industrial age. Discover how community\, work\, and home changed over this period and how the people who lived in Norwalk adapted to those changes.\n\nStep back in time and explore the Governor Fitch Law Office\, renovated in 2018 under the joint supervision of the Norwalk Historical Commission and Norwalk Historical Society\, curated by Dr. Daryn Reyman-Lock and designed by Scott Kuykendall of Oxygen Design. Moved to Mill Hill in 1971\, the Fitch Law Office has been used as a key tool in teaching school children about Colonial life. All rooms including the Governor’s office room\, the clerk’s garret bedroom\, the kitchen and storage cellar have been reinterpreted to give a more accurate representation of life in the late 1700s.\n\nExplore school life in the c.1826 Downtown District one-room schoolhouse. View the exhibit\, “One Room Schoolhouses: A History of Education in Norwalk 1650-1870\,” in the 1826 Downtown District Schoolhouse onsite at Mill Hill. The exhibit\, curated by Dr. Daryn Reyman-Lock and designed by Scott Kuykendall of Oxygen Design\, highlights the early history of education in Norwalk using old photographs\, original documents and period textbooks.\n\nPlease read our visitor guidelines below!\nNorwalk Historical Society Museum Visitor Guidelines\nThe health and safety of our visitors\, volunteers\, and staff are our highest priority. Therefore\, we continue to implement the State of Connecticut’s regulations\, CDC guidelines\, and industry standards for best museum practices during the ongoing pandemic with the following rules and measures established for your visit.\nMasks:\n\n 	All visitors will be required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status when inside the Mill Hill Historic Park buildings. The buildings at Mill Hill Historic Park are City of Norwalk property and masks are required inside all City of Norwalk buildings.\n 	If you have a medical condition that keeps you from wearing a mask\, we ask you to please visit at a later date when it is deemed safe for visitors not to wear a mask.\n 	If you do not have a mask available\, or your mask is deemed ineffective\, the Norwalk Historical Society will make a disposable mask available to you.\n\nSocial Distancing:\n\n 	Social distancing shall be required for all staff\, volunteers and visitors. Social distancing means keeping 6 feet apart from guests\, docents\, and staff at all times during your visit.\n 	Bathrooms will accommodate 1 person at any given time.\n\nSanitizing:\n\n 	The Norwalk Historical Society will make hand sanitizer available at entrances\, exits and common areas.\n 	We are taking precautions in cleaning common areas with EPA approved cleaning products. Sanitary wipes and trash cans will be available in the restrooms to avoid direct contact on commonly used surfaces.\n 	All visitors will have to agree to these regulations before entering Mill Hill Historic Park buildings.\n\n[/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row]
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SUMMARY:Native American Archaeology of the Norwalk Area
DESCRIPTION:[cmsmasters_row data_width=”boxed” data_padding_left=”3″ data_padding_right=”3″ data_top_style=”default” data_bot_style=”default” data_color=”default” data_bg_position=”top center” data_bg_repeat=”no-repeat” data_bg_attachment=”scroll” data_bg_size=”cover” data_bg_parallax_ratio=”0.5″ data_padding_top=”0″ data_padding_bottom=”50″ data_padding_top_large=”0″ data_padding_bottom_large=”0″ data_padding_top_laptop=”0″ data_padding_bottom_laptop=”0″ data_padding_top_tablet=”0″ data_padding_bottom_tablet=”0″ data_padding_top_mobile_h=”0″ data_padding_bottom_mobile_h=”0″ data_padding_top_mobile_v=”0″ data_padding_bottom_mobile_v=”0″ data_shortcode_id=”w99kbbig0g”][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″ data_bg_position=”top center” data_bg_repeat=”no-repeat” data_bg_attachment=”scroll” data_bg_size=”cover” data_border_style=”default” data_animation_delay=”0″ data_shortcode_id=”rf14sb2vnr”][cmsmasters_text shortcode_id=”fjd7r7yj45″ animation_delay=”0″] \nAbout this event\nJoin the Norwalk Historical Society for the in person lecture\, “From the Ice Age to the Founding of Norwalk: Native American Archaeology of the Norwalk Area\,” with guest presenter Ernest A. Wiegand\, professor of archaeology at NCC\, on Thursday\, December 9\, 2021 at 8:00pm in the old town meetinghouse at Mill Hill Historic Park\, 2 East Wall Street in Norwalk\, CT.\nRegistration Required! Free event but please consider making a donation to the Norwalk Historical Society.\nPlease Note: All visitors will be required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status when inside the Mill Hill Historic Park buildings. The buildings at Mill Hill Historic Park are City of Norwalk property and masks are required inside all City of Norwalk buildings. \nThis presentation will bring the audience back in time and reveal what archaeology has found about the history and cultural lifeways of the First Americans. Archaeological digs conducted in and around Norwalk will be discussed. Artifacts from local digs will accompany the program\, and the audience is encouraged to bring artifacts that they may have found on the beach\, along rivers and streams or while digging in the garden. \nTwelve thousand years ago\, southern New England had emerged from a covering of glacial ice. In this cold climate\, an environment far different than the present existed. Ice age animals such as the mammoth\, mastodon and caribou roamed the newly-deglaciated land\, as did the first Native Americans to enter the Northeast. The way of life of these early peoples\, and the adaptations their descendants made as the environment continued to change\, have been the focus of much interest and archaeological research for several decades. \nThis program is in conjunction with the Norwalk Historical Society’s new exhibit\, “Norwalk’s Changing Communities – 13\,000BC – 1835”\, which was funded in part by grants from Connecticut Humanities and the City of Norwalk Historical Commission. The new exhibit will be on view! \nMill Hill Historic Park is located at 2 East Wall Street in Norwalk\, CT. Handicapped and limited mobility parking on site. General parking is at the HSC building on the corner of East Wall Street and Park Street. Follow blue parking signs. \nAbout the Presenter\nErnie Wiegand has taught at Norwalk Community College since 1975\, when the college’s unique “Archaeology as an Avocation” certificate program was initiated. Students in the program have worked on many pre-contact period Native American sites as well as several historic period sites\, including the Rogers-Ritch-Merritt house in Norwalk. He received a Masters degree in anthropology from Hunter College in 1982 and has been the Archaeology as an Avocation program coordinator since 1990. In addition to his teaching duties\, he has been the faculty advisor to the NCC Archaeology Club\, which has not only conducted archaeological investigations of local sites but has brought archaeology to the public through its program meetings (which are open to the public) and special community outreach projects. He also serves as a consultant for both public and private land-use projects that may have an impact on archaeological sites. \n  \nNorwalk Historical Society Museum Visitor Guidelines\nThe health and safety of our visitors\, volunteers\, and staff are our highest priority. Therefore\, we continue to implement the State of Connecticut’s regulations\, CDC guidelines\, and industry standards for best museum practices during the ongoing pandemic with the following rules and measures established for your visit. \nMasks:\n\nAll visitors will be required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status when inside the Mill Hill Historic Park buildings. The buildings at Mill Hill Historic Park are City of Norwalk property and masks are required inside all City of Norwalk buildings.\nIf you have a medical condition that keeps you from wearing a mask\, we ask you to please visit at a later date when it is deemed safe for visitors not to wear a mask.\nIf you do not have a mask available\, or your mask is deemed ineffective\, the Norwalk Historical Society will make a disposable mask available to you.\n\nSocial Distancing:\n\nSocial distancing shall be required for all staff\, volunteers and visitors. Social distancing means keeping 6 feet apart from guests\, docents\, and staff at all times during your visit.\nBathrooms will accommodate 1 person at any given time.\n\nSanitizing:\n\nThe Norwalk Historical Society will make hand sanitizer available at entrances\, exits and common areas.\nWe are taking precautions in cleaning common areas with EPA approved cleaning products. 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