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"description": "<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Award-winning authors Daniel Nayeri and Mavasta Honyouti discuss memory, identity, and belonging through their books, <em>The Teacher of Nomad Land</em> and <em>Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story</em>. Presented in partnership with Hartford Public Library and UConn Hartford, this community dinner and conversation explores the stories we inherit, the histories we carry, and what it means to call a place home.</p>",
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"address": "1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/building-with-my-great-grandfathers-tools/",
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"description": "Woodworker Anne Marie Elder shares her family's collection of antique woodworking tools, passed down from her great-grandfather, while exploring the techniques and traditions of early American craftsmanship. From hand-carved spoons to 17th-century joinery, discover how this co-founder of Colonial Crafts keeps centuries-old skills alive, one handmade piece at a time.",
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"startDate": "2026-02-28",
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"name": "Mark Twain House & Museum",
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"address": "351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT"
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"description": "<span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">The Mark Twain House & Museum</span></span> offers Ghost Tours exploring haunted history, Victorian spiritualism, and the era’s fascination with séances and spirits. Drawing on documented investigations and Mark Twain’s own curiosity about the supernatural, the tour blends historical context with chilling tales rooted in real lives and losses.",
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"startDate": "2026-11-13",
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"name": "Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art",
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"address": "600 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/plaidcast-in-person-our-dark-horse/",
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"description": "<em>Our Dark Horse</em> is a moving documentary exploring the bonds between horses and humans, filmed over three years at Unbridled Sanctuary. The Wadsworth Atheneum hosts this special showing with <em>The Plaid Horse</em> and Piper Klemm, followed by a live discussion featuring sanctuary founder Susan Kayne and veterinarian Alycia Crandall.",
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"address": "1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/common-ground-local-indigenous-food-systems/",
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"description": "Food is more than sustenance. It's history, identity, and a connection to the land. At the Connecticut Museum, Mohegan anthropologist and chef Rachel Sayet (Akitusut) leads a conversation with Indigenous chefs, herbalists, and farmers from several nations about contemporary food traditions, agriculture, and the importance of preserving ancestral knowledge. This thought-provoking panel is free, but reservations are encouraged as space is limited.",
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"startDate": "2026-11-19",
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"name": "A. Everett Austin House",
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"address": "130 Scarborough Street, Hartford, CT"
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"description": "Tour the home of legendary museum director A. Everett “Chick” Austin and Helen Goodwin at 130 Scarborough Street in Hartford’s West End. Modeled on a Venetian Renaissance villa, the Austin House was built in 1930 and seamlessly blends 18th-century rococo style with radically modern Bauhaus design. The tour includes portions of the home only accessible by stairs; elevator service is not available.",
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"address": "500 Main Street, Hartford, CT, USA"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/hpl-cinemas-the-right-to-read/",
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"description": "Hartford Public Library's Downtown Library presents <em>The Right to Read</em> (2023, NR), an award-winning documentary exploring America's literacy crisis and the fight to ensure every child learns to read. Stick around after the film for a Q&A and a deeper conversation about why literacy matters.",
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"startDate": "2026-11-20",
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"name": "The Bushnell",
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"address": "166 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT, USA"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/a-conversation-on-the-economy-money-power/",
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"description": "Money, work, and power are changing fast, and Andrew Ross Sorkin is here to help make sense of it all. As part of the Connecticut Forum season at The Bushnell, the acclaimed journalist and financial storyteller digs into how AI, technology, and shifting economic power are reshaping careers, institutions, and modern life, connecting today’s headlines with the history that brought us here.",
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"startDate": "2026-08-29",
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"address": "351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/get-a-clue-w-sea-tea-improv/",
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"description": "Get A Clue w/ Sea Tea Improv turns The Mark Twain House & Museum into the scene of a hilarious interactive mystery. Follow the clues, question suspicious characters, and help crack the case as Sea Tea’s quick-witted improvisers keep everyone guessing from room to room.",
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"startDate": "2026-11-24",
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"name": "Connecticut's Old State House",
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"address": "800 Main Street, Hartford, CT"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/second-annual-29th-30th-connecticut-colored-regiment-memorial-walk/",
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"description": "Walk in the footsteps of history through downtown Hartford as the Alex Breanne Corporation and Connecticut’s Old State House commemorate the 161st anniversary of the return of Connecticut’s 29th and 30th Colored Regiments from the Civil War. This memorial walk honors the soldiers’ service and legacy, with a 5K route retracing their historic homecoming and a shorter one-mile option.",
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