Culture
The Stories We Tell
Where’s Stiles?
By David WrightTown Historian
Where’s Stiles?
We generally think of Stratford’s memorial monuments as all residing on Academy Hill. However, three very important memorial monuments are located on the West...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
~ William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there,...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
 By Norah Christianson
Spring is like a perhaps hand
~~ e. e. cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand(which comes carefullyout of Nowhere) arranginga window,into which people look...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
InvictusWilliam Ernest HenleyOut of the night that covers me,      Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be      For my...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Caged Bird
- Maya Angelou
A free bird leapson the back of the wind   and floats downstream   till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange...
Culture
Square One Theatre Hosts Meeting at Library
Friends of Square One Theatre Company Meetig
Includes "Sneak-Peek" of "Chester Bailey"
Stratford LibraryTuesday, February 27th, at 7 p.m.Lovell Room
Free and open to the publicLight refreshments...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Strange FruitAbel Meeropol
Southern trees bear a strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange...
Arts & Lifestyle
Slavery in the Constitution
Sunday Afternoon Talks at Stratford LibrarySunday, February 25th, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PMFree and open to the publicLovell Room
Hosted by Charles Lautier of Stratford
The...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Sonnets to Orpheus IV
- Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
You...
Arts & Lifestyle
Meet Your Museum
Hidden Jewel Honoring Stratford VeteransStratford Veterans Museum5952 Main St., next to Putney Chapel
The Stratford Veterans Museum is dedicated to telling the stories of the...
Arts & Lifestyle
Enslaved Africans in the Colony of Connecticut
Black History Month
By Barbara HeimlichEditor
Sources:Â The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition;Â The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for...