Please join Wilton Library online via Zoom as Mark Schenker takes us on a guided tour of several literary utopias and dystopias spanning several hundred years. Ever since Sir Thomas […]
Please join Wilton Library online via Zoom as Mark Schenker takes us on a guided tour of several literary utopias and dystopias spanning several hundred years. Ever since Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) created the word “utopia” in the early 16th century, the double meaning of his coinage has informed centuries of Utopian literature in English. […]
Please join Wilton Library online via Zoom as Mark Schenker takes us on a guided tour of several literary utopias and dystopias spanning several hundred years. Ever since Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) created the word “utopia” in the early 16th century, the double meaning of his coinage has informed centuries of Utopian literature in English. […]
After viewing the Laurent Clerc Papers exhibit at Wilton Library, please join us for a presentation which introduces Laurent Clerc the "Apostle of the Deaf in The New World" and his connection to Early Deaf Education. Laurent Clerc Holt and Wilton Historical Society Director Nick Foster will outline the roots of Deaf and American Sign […]
Students with learning differences who benefited from accommodations and modifications throughout their early education and high school are often surprised to learn that their IEP or 504 Plan is no […]
The Greens at Cannondale will present an afternoon with our in-house artist, Howard L. Bonington, who will lecture on his book, Aviation on Cape Cod. Join us on Friday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. at the Greens at Cannondale Media Center. Following his lecture, there will be a meet and greet with the author, with […]
Please join Wilton Library online via Zoom as Mark Schenker takes us through Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, a Victorian take on the medieval Arthurian legends. In the early 19th century, the rise of Romanticism in Europe generally, and in England in particular, led to a renewed interest in medievalism. Consequences of this resurgence persisted […]
"Down Sodom: The Impact of Rapid Industrialization on Everyday Life in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Connecticut " — Jamie Eves, Mill Museum In the 17th year of the collaboration between Wilton Library and the Wilton Historical Society, the scholarly lecture series will focus on the theme of “Innovation, Disruption, Revolution: The Impact of Technological […]
Join Wilton Library for a fascinating and timely ArtScapades lecture, "The Harlem Art Explosion: From Innovation to Mainstream," on Monday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Brubeck Room. Black History Month 2024, which is celebrated in February, is devoted this year to African Americans and the Arts. During the Harlem Renaissance of the early […]
Join Wilton Library in learning about some of the early works of David Hockney. The expanded galleries of the Bruce Museum’s William L. Richter Art Wing have allowed Dr. Margarita Karasoulas, the Bruce’s Curator of Art, the space to explore the life and career of this prolific and innovative pop artist. Hockney/Origins: Early Works from […]
