Monday, March 18, 2024

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Enslaved Africans in the Colony of Connecticut

Black History Month By Barbara HeimlichEditor Sources:  The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition;  The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for...