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"description": "<p data-start="0" data-end="344">Discover the lives of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and author Harriet Beecher Stowe through an interactive family tour at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism. Designed for ages 6 and up, the experience uses stories, historical objects, and conversation to explore courage, education, and the power ordinary people have to create change.</p>",
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"description": "<p data-start="0" data-end="344">Discover the lives of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and author Harriet Beecher Stowe through an interactive family tour at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism. Designed for ages 6 and up, the experience uses stories, historical objects, and conversation to explore courage, education, and the power ordinary people have to create change.</p>",
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"name": "Cedar Hill Cemetery",
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"address": "Cedar Hill Cemetery, Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, CT, USA"
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"description": "<p class="PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer" data-start="0" data-end="258">Take a walk through Cedar Hill Cemetery and meet some of Hartford’s most inventive minds. From Samuel Colt’s revolver to Elisha Gray’s pay telephone and lesser-known innovations, this guided tour uncovers the people whose ideas helped shape the modern world. Registration is strongly encouraged.</p>",
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"name": "Patent Pending: Inventors of Cedar Hill",
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"name": "State House Square Plaza",
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"address": "58 State House Square, Hartford, CT 06161"
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"description": "Connecticut Witchfest celebrates and honors Connecticut's "witches", all of whom were exonerated by the State of Connecticut in 2023. Have a wicked good time learning about this dark spot in the state's history from experts, authors, and performers set up outside on State House Square Plaza.",
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"description": "At the Stowe Center for Literary Activism, this tour traces the lives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, from childhood to literary legacy. Through hands-on objects and conversation, this interactive, family-friendly tour (ages 6 and up) explores themes of courage, education, and change in an age-appropriate way.",
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"startDate": "2026-08-11",
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"address": "Elizabeth Park Rose Garden, Asylum Avenue, Hartford, CT, USA"
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"description": "Take a tour of Elizabeth Park's famous rose garden and learn what makes the park and its gardens a national treasure. Tours are free and meet in front of the flagpole at the Cottage.",
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"name": "Connecticut Museum of Culture and History",
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"address": "1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/tavern-talks/",
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"description": "Dozens of tavern signs once hung over busy public spaces where Connecticans ate, drank, slept, argued, celebrated, gambled, danced, and courted. On Tuesday afternoons this summer, drop by the Connecticut Museum for a gallery talk about tavern life in early Connecticut. Learn how to decode the symbolism on some of their most inscrutable signs, and why so few of these once-ubiquitous items have survived until today.",
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"name": "Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch",
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"address": "Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch, Trinity Street, Hartford, CT, USA"
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"description": "Take a free tour of the <a href="http://www.bushnellpark.org/attractions/soldiers-sailors-memorial-arch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch</a> and learn all sorts of cool historical facts (no spoilers here), Thursdays through October. If you have a large group or would like to request a tour outside of the routine weekly hours, please send the Bushnell Park Foundation an <a href="mailto:manager@bushnellpark.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email</a>.",
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"address": "99 Trinity Street Hartford, CT 06103"
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"description": "<div class="xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs">Take a midday stroll through Bushnell Park with <em data-start="48" data-end="60">Tree Tales</em>, a lunchtime series led by Hartford’s City Foresters and Bushnell Park Conservancy staff. Part nature walk, part history lesson, the program offers a closer look at the stories rooted in the park’s trees and landscape.</div>",
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"name": "Tree Tales: Conversations in Bushnell Park",
"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/tree-tales-conversations-in-bushnell-park/?occurrence=2026-08-14&time=1786708800"
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"address": "1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT"
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"description": "Dozens of tavern signs once hung over busy public spaces where Connecticans ate, drank, slept, argued, celebrated, gambled, danced, and courted. On Tuesday afternoons this summer, drop by the Connecticut Museum for a gallery talk about tavern life in early Connecticut. Learn how to decode the symbolism on some of their most inscrutable signs, and why so few of these once-ubiquitous items have survived until today.",
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/tavern-talks/?occurrence=2026-08-18"
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"startDate": "2026-08-19",
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"name": "Cedar Hill Cemetery",
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"address": "Cedar Hill Cemetery, Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, CT, USA"
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"url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/the-plot-thickens/",
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"description": "From Communist spies to runaway princes, Cedar Hill Cemetery is home to stories that seem too cinematic to be true. Wendi Vance guides this tour, uncovering the lives of individuals whose dramatic histories could easily become a blockbuster film.",
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"name": "The Plot Thickens",
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"startDate": "2026-05-13",
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"name": "Elizabeth Park",
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"address": "Elizabeth Park Rose Garden, Asylum Avenue, Hartford, CT, USA"
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"description": "Step into Elizabeth Park’s story with a guided walk through its gardens, grounds, and tucked-away history. Led by David Wilson, this scenic tour traces the park’s past while keeping things pleasantly rooted in fresh air, flowers, and a little local lore. Wear comfy shoes and bring a friend, no registration required.",
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