Annual Report 2023

CONNECTICUT MUSEUM:

A new name and visual identity for the Connecticut Historical Society

CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING: Museum receive three $1 million federal grants to support crucial civics and history projects

Dear Members,

There have been many proud moments during my 35-year career as a museum professional, but none quite as meaningful as our recent rebranding of the Connecticut Historical Society to the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. For decades, the organization debated whether it needed to move away from “historical society” in its name since it did not imply that we are open to all. The Board of Trustees debated how the name and visual identity needed to better reflect to the outside world what was occurring inside of the nearly 200-year-old organization.

Beginning in 2020 to 2022, the Museum solicited feedback from stakeholders including: members, donors, sta , current and former Trustees, and community leaders on both the direction of our strategic planning e ort in 2020 and the possibility of a name change.

We had our naysayers. People told us that we’d lose our base of support, that the institution was too established to change, and that people would not know who we are. None of these assertions turned out to be rooted in fact. What I have witnessed over the past year is newfound enthusiasm for our work—deepened interest, diversification of audiences, and broadened stories to share about Connecticut.

Some would say, what does a rebranding have to do with the overall institution’s mission? For centuries, philosophers have debated why symbolism matters, but ultimately concur that symbols are signals of our values. Today, I can attest, that the new name and rebrand has set the stage for the Connecticut Museum to establish itself as the state’s preeminent culture and history organization for the next century that provides a true reflection of the state.

History is our shared story—it is complicated, sometimes even muddy and gnarled, but often beautiful. We all take part in creating it, telling it, and changing it. I’d like to thank you, as members and supporters, for your continued generosity in making this ambitious work possible. This exciting progress would not have been possible without your membership, contributions, and participation. As we reach our 200th birthday in 2025, you will know the role that you have played in sharing the whole history and culture of the Constitution State.

Sincerely,

Robert A. Kret Executive Director and CEO

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

MICHAEL A. CANTOR

Chair

SYLVIA B. KELLY

President

FIONA VERNAL

First Vice President

HENRY M. ZACHS

Second Vice President

BICHOP J. NAWROT

Third Vice President and Investment Committee Chair

DAVID M. KLEIN

Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair

PORTIA CORBETT

Secretary

MEMBERS

ALAN ALEIA

HARRY ARORA

ROBERT BAZYK

SARA CHAMPION

TAMMY EXUM

GEORGE JEPSEN

BARBARA KIEFER

DIXON MALLORY

JAY MALCYNSKY

DAVID MCCARY

ANDREW MCDONALD

DENISE MERRILL

JOANN PRICE

Development Committee Chair

JASON ROJAS

Governance Committee Chair

CAROLINE SIMMONS

MANISHA SINHA

CORBIN WALBURGER

JAMES C. WILLIAMS

HONORARY TRUSTEES

DAVID DANGREMOND

MARY JEANNE JONES

LAWRENCE MOWELL

JUDITH WAWRO

Letter from the Board Leadership

Dear Members,

It has been an honor for us to serve as Chair and President of the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in 2023 during an undeniable time of change for many history organizations. We would like to share our ongoing enthusiasm for the Connecticut Museum’s remarkable progress in becoming a place where many cultures and histories are continually celebrated.

In 2023, the Connecticut Museum successfully rebranded and launched a new name and visual identity after nearly 200 years as the Connecticut Historical Society. The new name and brand embody the work that the institution has been doing for years— bringing communities together to share and embrace our many histories and cultures. This change also reflects the organization’s renewed mission to explore the stories of Connecticut and their impact on the nation and the world today. It also represents the exciting potential of what is to come for one of Connecticut’s oldest cultural institutions as we embark on our 200th anniversary in 2025.

The Connecticut Museum was delighted to be the recipient of three $1 million federal grants through the unwavering support of Congressman John Larson, Senator Richard Blumenthal, and Senator Christopher Murphy. These federal grants will enable the Connecticut Museum to move forward with crucial projects that include Civics Education for K-5 students across Connecticut, the Community History Project, and Digitization of American Revolutionary War materials in our collection.

This year, the Museum served over 41,822 visitors annually through onsite, o site, and virtual programs. It continues to be committed to reaching out into its many communities to promote the cultural preservation of ethnic, immigrant, and occupational communities in Connecticut. In addition, the Museum is home to the Waterman Research Center and a world-class collection of four million manuscripts, objects, and artifacts that date back over 300 years of American history.

In the summer, the well-received exhibitions, The Bicycle Game and Journeys : Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission closed making room for the current exhibitions Connecticut’s Bookshelf, an exploration of over 300 years of printing and publishing in our state, and We’re Game! Sports and Community, a celebration of the less familiar sports that connect people in communities and competition to be installed. These four exhibitions combined with engaging related programs o ered throughout the year added a new dimension to our understanding of the Constitution State.

We invite you to join in this exciting momentum by renewing your membership, contributing to the annual fund, or visiting the Connecticut Museum with your friends and family to see all that is new, and the enriching opportunities that it holds.

Sincerely,

Michael A. Cantor

Sylvia B. Kelly Chair, Board of Trustees President, Board of Trustees

A New Name and Visual Identity

FOR ONE OF THE NATION’S OLDEST HISTORICAL SOCIETIES: CONNECTICUT MUSEUM OF CULTURE AND HISTORY

Founded in 1825, the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) originated as an institution focused on preserving and sharing Connecticut’s history. Over the next 190-plus years, the institution’s focus evolved from collecting to educational programs, research, exhibitions, and community engagement. As a result of this change in focus, the CHS’s Board of Trustees debated for several decades whether we should retain “historical society” as part of our name because the phrase may appear dated to newer audiences and often can imply an organization that one must be invited to participate in its programs.

In 2020, during an intensive strategic planning process, the CHS recognized that its name should better reflect our current focus

on the connections between history and culture, both from the past and to the present. From there, the process to develop a new name and brand identity began.

Beginning in 2020 to 2022, the CHS solicited feedback from stakeholders and the Board of Trustees carefully reviewed and assessed the feedback and came to a final decision to rebrand the organization.

The new name and visual identity were revealed on June 22, 2023, at an opening event at the newly branded Connecticut Museum in Hartford’s historic West End. The logo features a set of stylized brackets artfully frame the state of Connecticut. This frame symbolizes a focused experience that brings to life the many events that shape our state’s culture and history, and its role in the United

States and the world. Additionally, the new logo, in its simplicity, is a more modern look which represents the Connecticut Museum’s mission to cultivate a deep understanding of the history and culture of Connecticut.

The Connecticut Museum continues to explore both what Connecticut used to be, and its impact on our nation and the world today—and the new name reflects that. By spotlighting the many cultures that influence the past and present of our state, the Connecticut Museum is building upon its core work rooted in the history of Connecticut.

1. Revisit tag line displayed outside the Museum. 2. Members and visitors at the opening. 3. African drummers performing at opening. 4. Robert Kret announces new name. 5. Board of Trustees and esteemed guests at celebration.

The Connecticut Museum is the recipient of three $1M Congressionally Directed Spending requests with the support of Congressman John Larson, Senator Richard Blumenthal, and Senator Christopher Murphy. Pictured at media announcement (left to right) Andrea Rapacz, Chief Curator of Collections, Robert Kret, Executive Director and CEO, Sylvia B. Kelly, Board President, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Senator Christopher Murphy, Ilene Frank, Executive Deputy Director and Chief Strategist, Denise Merrill, Board Member, and George Jepsen, Board Member. COLLECTIONS

Congressionally Directed Spending

In 2023, the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History was the recipient of three $1 Million dollar federal grants through congressionally directed spending. The Connecticut Museum extends deep gratitude to Senator Blumenthal, Senator Murphy, and Congressman Larson for their support in bringing these dollars to the state.

Each grant funds a di erent multi-year project, all designed to enhance the work we do across the state to deepen our understanding of the history and culture of Connecticut. The grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission is supporting the American Revolution Papers Digitization Project. Through this project, tens of thousands of pages will be digitized and made available to researchers through the Connecticut Digital Archive. Having access to the digitized pages will allow sta and scholars to mine the archive to uncover previously unknown stories and make connections between local events and people and national stories.

The Connecticut Museum has partnered with the Connecticut’s Democracy Center at Connecticut’s Old State House and their CT Kid Governor® program, The Mark Twain House & Museum, Fairfield Museum and History Center, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies to launch the Civics Education for Connecticut Students program. The federal grant funding through the U.S. Department of Education provides reduced fees and bussing support for grades K-5 interested in participating in the many civics education programs o ered by the consortium of museums. For more information of on how your school can participate, contact Project Director Peter Moran, pmoran@connecticutmuseum.org

The Museum’s Community History Project (CHP) uses oral history interviews to engage with marginalized communities and ensure an inclusive historical archive for the future. Funding from the U.S. Department of Education will expand the CHP’s work with Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) and broaden the project’s focus to include working with other colleges, the Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA), and diverse communities across the state. For more information of on how you can participate, contact Community History Project Assistant Abbie Cowen, acowen@connecticutmuseum.org

FUNDING PARTNERS

National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) U.S. Department of Education

Research Center Fellows

The Connecticut Museum is a member of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium and this year we welcomed the following fellows to the Waterman Research Center to further their projects.

C.C. Borzilleri

The Personal and Professional Lives of Women Printers in the Early American Republic

Joanne Jahnke-Wegner

Stolen Lives and Stolen Lands: Captivity, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Northeast, 1630-1763

Isaac Lee Slavery’s Commonwealths: Local Power and Atlantic Slavery in Colonial New England, 1689-1763

Lucy Smith

The Atlantic Bite: Circulation, Economy, and the Meaning of Teeth in Eighteenth-Century British North America

Emily Whitted Darned, Patched, and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America

Collections 2023

This year the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s collections department has continued work on major processing projects including the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP) Project and the kicko of the American Revolution Papers Digitization Project. The collection department added approximately 1,595 new items to the collection from 83 donors. A selection of these donations are highlighted here.

1. Catalog published by Coleco Industries, Inc., Hartford, 1972. Connecticut Museum collection, 2023.55.0 2. Preg-No-Matic fertility tracker, made by Brooklawn-Park Laboratory, Bridgeport, 1957. Connecticut Museum collection, gift of John Meloa, 2023.3.0 3. Strike placard, around 1974. Connecticut Museum collection, gift of Tracey Lorenzo Budrejko, 2023.82.1. This placard was used by photographer Frank Lorenzo who served as the Newspictures Bureau Manager of the Hartford branch of United Press International (UPI). 4. University of Dope party game, New York, 2023. Connecticut Museum collection, The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2023.11.1. This game was created by A.V. Perkins and Marian Andoh-Clarke, both graduates of Central Connecticut State University. 5. Pen given to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso by President Jimmy Carter. Connecticut Museum collection, gift of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, 2023.51.3.

Education 2023

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s education department had another successful year with a strong return to pre-pandemic onsite attendance. The Museum Educators were busy with delivering school programs at the Connecticut Museum, and in classrooms, developing a wide range of public programs to align with the Museum's exhibitions, and brought traveling talks to sites statewide on a variety of topics. Additionally, the education department worked on several new and exciting initiatives.

Opening in January 2023, the Inspire Center was created as an interactive space in the Museum for visitors to spark creativity based on objects from the collection. The Inspire Center is filled with bright, cheerful colors, tables covered with craft paper, and an entire chalkboard wall provide ample options for brainstorming. A custom-made exhibit case features a monthly rotation of themed collections objects. Magnifying glasses and a step stool allow visitors to get a better view of the objects. Custom-made

sensory panels are installed on the case allowing visitors to touch materials that are like the ones in the case. A creative prompt encourages visitors to innovate using the historic objects as inspiration. The Inspire Center was generously sponsored by the Gawlicki Family Foundation and is open to the public on the weekends.

In November, the Connecticut Museum hosted a Vet’s Town Hall program which gave veterans an opportunity to speak publicly about their experiences while serving and at-home. The goal of this program is to bridge the gap between veterans and the communities that they served. At the Museum’s Town Hall, veterans from the Vietnam War, Korean War, and Operation Enduring Freedom participated in the program. The Vet’s Town Hall was a meaningful, powerful, and moving program, and an example of a mission-driven public program, one that the Museum hopes to continue in 2024 and beyond.

Through a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Connecticut Museum developed 10 digital resource packs to align with the new Black/ African American and Latino/Puerto Rican Course of Studies high school course. These educator packs are available to teachers statewide free of charge and contain lesson plans, classroom materials,

FUNDING PARTNERS

Berkshire Bank

Chelsea Groton Bank

Connecticut Humanities

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Gawlicki Family Foundation

Koopman Family Foundation

M&T Bank

Henry Nias Foundation

U.S. Department of Education

and short videos. The Museum’s education department developed these materials with a Teacher Advisory Board, community members, and highlights the Museum’s collection. These packs amplify the voices, history, and contributions of Black and Latino people in Connecticut, and support teachers in using local and state history in their teaching. The materials are being piloted this school year with o cial release of the materials in fall 2024.

Students partake in hands-on activities in the Inspire Center that encourage creativity and brainstorming based on objects from the collection.

Cultural Sustainability 2023

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is dedicated to sustaining cultural vibrancy in the region. As part of the rebrand, the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program became the Department of Cultural Sustainability. It continues to provide statewide programmatic support for living cultural heritage practices, knowledge, art forms, crafts, and lifeways that contribute to the well-being of communities.

The Southern New England Apprenticeship Program in traditional arts, or SNEAP, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2023.

FUNDING PARTNERS

Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation

Connecticut Cultural Fund

Connecticut Humanities

Connecticut O ce of the Arts, Department of Economic and Community Development

George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee

National Endowment for the Arts

Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee

Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation

The Cultural Sustainability team hosted a reception for current and former program participants and mini-exhibition of prior work. SNEAP also expanded the number of participating teams in 2023. The 20232024 cohort supports 12 teams ranging from Afghan pottery to Puerto Rican vejigante mask-making. This banner year for the apprenticeship program has allowed the Museum to reconnect with many former participants and make new inroads with communities.

The Cultural Sustainability team initiated a pilot program, “We Belong: Youth Leadership and Community Cultures of Care,” together with Black and Asian American community leaders and educators. Over the course of the fourmonth paid program, Black and Asian American high school students conducted family interviews and incorporated their findings into a final artistic presentation at the end of the program. We had a strong

Pilar Solis, sta member at the Spanish Community of Wallingford, poses in front of Carlos Hernández Chávez’ ofrenda installation.

Matin Malikzada (Afghan Pottery Mentor, SNEAP 20232024) works together with apprentice Andrea Rios. BELOW: Dancers from Ballet Folklórico Alma de México at the Día de Muertos Celebration.

positive response on the program from participants, and we are looking for ways to fund it in the future.

In major events, the team organized the 8th year of the summer concert series, and the 6th annual Día de Muertos Celebration together with the Spanish Community of Wallingford and artist Carlos Hernández Chávez.

The Cultural Sustainability team thanks the many culture keepers, community partners, collaborators, and community leaders who make all this work truly meaningful and possible.

Gurmeet Kaur Singh (Sikh Kirtan Mentor, SNEAP 20222023) and husband at the SNEAP 25th Anniversary Celebration.

View the exhibition online: connecticutmuseum.org/exhibition/virtual-journeys/

Journeys :

Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission

In 1872, Chung Mun Yew, age 11, and New Shan Chow, age 9, left their families, friends, and homes in China and traveled to New England with 28 other boys. They made the thousands of miles long journey as part of the first cohort of the Chinese Educational Mission (CEM), the first formal study-abroad program for Chinese students to the United States.

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s exhibition Journeys : Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission opened in the fall of 2022 and continued through July 2023, honoring the 50th anniversary of the CEM and the role Connecticut played in its history. The CEM was founded by Yale alumnus Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from a U.S. university. The CEM sent a total of 120 boys to the U.S. from 1872 to 1875. Upon arrival, the boys were all under the age of 16. Their parents signed contracts and agreed to permit their children to study abroad for up to 15 years. Afterwards,

the students would return to China and serve the government. The boys had to demonstrate academic progress, obey program rules, and maintain good health to remain in the CEM program.

The Connecticut Museum holds original letters, photographs, clothing, and other items related to the CEM students that reveal their personal experience and those of their Connecticut guardians, classmates, and friends, as well as of their loved ones in China.

Numerous descendants of the CEM students participated in the development of the exhibition and visited the exhibition throughout the year. Chris Lee and his children, Noah, Lydia, and Jonah are descendants of CEM student Yung Hoy. They contributed to the exhibition by recording their readings of letters from the family and friends of Chu Kai Yu, a self-funded CEM student in the 1870s. The letters of Chu Kai Yu were translated by Museum volunteer Dr. Henry Qu and shared

in English in the exhibition for the first time.

The exhibition featured video interviews with CEM descendants who shared family stories and their feelings of connection with the boys of the mission. These included Dr. Bruce Chan (descendant of Chung Mun Yew), Debbie Jiang (descendant of Yung Hoy), Dr. Roger Lee (descendant of Won Bing Chung), and Dr. Paul Lin (descendant of Lin Luen Fai).

A highlight for the exhibitions team was hosting a group of Chinese students from Tsinghua University in Beijing on the last day of the exhibition. During the tour, the students shared that some of the university’s founders had participated in the Chinese Educational Mission in Hartford in the 1870s.

Although Journeys closed in 2023, the Museum is currently seeking funding partners to redesign and travel the exhibition to interested museums across the country and internationally.

Visitors gather to celebrate the opening of the exhibition and to learn more about CEM's far reaching impact on study-abroad programs for Chinese students.

Exhibitions 2023

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's exhibition department began the year with the continued run of the exhibitions Journeys : Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission and The Bicycle Game, the latter winning a 2023 Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Award of Merit

The first half of the year found the team focused on exhibition planning and development, which culminated in the opening of three new exhibitions in the summer and fall. In August, the Museum hosted a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes liga. This bilingual exhibition (English and Spanish) highlighted the experiences of Latinas and Latinos whose love for the game and incredible talent have changed baseball and transformed American culture forever. The exhibition was enhanced with Connecticut content, including baseballs, uniforms, bats, and trading cards from the Museum collection, as well as photographs and stories gathered from the Hartford Yard Goats, New Britain resident George Springer, Jr. (whose son George Springer III is a Major League All-Star), and father-son baseball commentators Danny and Derik Rodriquez, who call the games in Spanish for the Hartford Yard Goats.

Connecticut’s Bookshelf opened in October with nearly 350 books and more than 50 objects on display. Connecticut is the birthplace of comic books, copyright law,

Noah Webster, and the recipe for pumpkin pie. It printed the first fugitive slave narrative, sold millions of dollars of books by subscription, and inspired children’s sections in libraries nationwide. The exhibition explores how these documents were made, shared, and received, and asks visitors to consider: What belongs on the shelf? And who gets to decide?

We’re Game! Sports and Community opened in November. Connecticut is home to many sports that connect people in communities—and in competition. From the popularity of pedestrianism in the nineteenth century to the modern roller derby craze, these sports may be less familiar, but they have histories of expressing and contributing to our cultural experiences. The Museum worked with 14 athletes, teams, and organizations to share 26 (A to Z!) lesser-known sports that reflect communities across the state.

A past exhibition found new life this year. The exhibitions team adapted the 2019

War, Maps, Mystery: Dutch Mapmaker Bernard Romans and the American Revolution into a traveling exhibition, which opened in April for a 3-month run at the Fairfield Museum & History Center.

Finally, the Nawrot Nook, which is located just outside the Waterman Research Center, featured 5 displays throughout the year, each highlighting artifacts, documents, and stories from the Museum collection. The displays were co-developed by Exhibitions sta , Collections sta , and the Dangremond Museum Studies interns, and included Influence of Uncertainty in the Atomic Age, Carbonated Connecticut, Botanical Specimens, Staying Cool: Connecticut's Ice Industry, and Sing Out Connecticut! A History of Singing Schools.

ABOVE: Bestsellers to true crime, Connecticut's Bookshelf explores 300 years of the state's print culture.

BELOW: We're Game! Sports and Community delves into the lesser-known sports and the vibrant communities that support them.

FUNDING PARTNERS

Anonymous donor

Barnes Foundation

Ellen M. Brown

Connecticut Humanities

Connecticut Public

Ensworth Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A.

Hartford Yard Goats / Los Chivos

Harvey & Lewis Opticians

Marketing Solutions

RMS Investments

Stanley Black & Decker

Visitation 2023

41,822 TOTAL

BY CATEGORY

Supporters 2023

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, formerly Connecticut Historical Society, (connecticutmuseum.org) is a privately funded, independent, not-for-profit educational organization that includes a museum, library, the Waterman Research Center, and the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program. Founded in 1825, the Connecticut Museum is Connecticut’s statewide historical society, and a Smithsonian A liate.

At the Connecticut Museum, we cultivate deep understanding of the history and culture of Connecticut, and its role in the United States and the world, through reflection of the past, active engagement with the present, and innovation for the future through our collections, research, educational programs, and exhibitions. The organization’s renowned collection includes more than 4 million manuscripts, graphics, books, artifacts, and other materials accessible at its Hartford campus, on loan at other organizations, and online.

Your support makes it possible for us to make Connecticut’s history and culture available to all. Thank you!

ENDOWED FUNDS

The Connecticut Museum gratefully acknowledges our benefactors and those they have honored through gifts to the endowment (by the year they were created), which supports, strengthens, and advances this institution.

1825–1900

Lucy A. Brainard

General Fund

James B. Hosmer

Publication Fund

Thomas Robbins

1901–1950

Fred H. Atchison

Lucius B. Barbour

Albert Carlos Bates

Frederick Bliss

William F. J. Boardman

Silas Chapman, Jr.

Sophia F. Hall Coe

CT Society of Colonial Wars

Wilbur L. Cross

George H. Fitts

James J. Goodwin

E. Stevens Henry

J. Coolidge Hills

Charles J. Hoadley

George E. Hoadley

Newman Hungerford

William W. Knight

Library/Museum Fund

Horace E. Mather

Francis T. Maxwell

Henry L. Miller

Jonathan Flynt Morris

Edward P. Peck

William H. Putnam

Gurdon W. Russell

George D. Seymour

James Shepard

Edwin Simons

Grace J. F. Smith

Jane T. Smith

Ellen Battell Stoeckel

Mary K. Talcott

Jane Tuttle

Ruel Crompton Tuttle

Edgar F. Waterman

Edwin Stanley Welles

Albion B. Wilson

Charles G. Woodward

1951–2000

George Buel Alvord

Frederick K. Barbour

Edwin Bingham

Birdsey Fund of Meriden

Charles S. Bissell

Grace Bliss

Cedric Boardman

Elsie Burks Brainard

Newton C. Brainard

Houghton Bulkeley

Florence S. Crofut

Edith B. Davis

John M. K. Davis

Paul J. Dorweiller

Sarah C. Dunleavy

Alice and Ostrom Enders

Charlotte Ford

Ruth Galpin

Florence T. Gay

George Gilman

James L. Goodwin

Edith S. Hale

Thompson R. Harlow

Arthur and Ethel Heublein

Louisa Hitchcock

Harold G. Holcombe, Sr.

Barbara Hubbard

Ward and Edith Jacobs

Melancthon W. Jacobus, III

Marie A. Johnston

Martha Ruhamah Lambert

Life Membership Fund

Boardman Lockwood

Charles Morris Mills

Edith C. Pelton

Harry H. Pinney

Helen Elizabeth Royce

Ada Louise Taylor

Louise Tomlinson

Mabel C. Tuller

Alain C. White

2001–PRESENT

Anonymous

Wilbur B. Beckwith

Gennaro Capobianco

Barbara F. Donahue

Dangremond Fund

Education Fund for the Future

Ellsworth S. Grant

Shepherd M. Holcombe, Sr.

The Koopman Family Endowed Director of Education Fund

Marylouise D. Meder

Mary Munger

Elisabeth Ohde

Old State House Association

Sali Riege

Grace Kibbe Gowdy Smith, Brooks Felton Smith

and Sally Kibbe Smith Brown Memorial Fund

Helen Granberry F. Waterman

Waterman Research Center & Library Fund

JONATHAN TRUMBULL SOCIETY

The John Trumbull Society

honors and recognizes those loyal supporters who have included the Connecticut Museum in their estate plans.

Susan B. Aller

Robert M. Finch

Mary Jeanne Jones

Christopher Larsen

Scott B. Macdonough

Brenda Mitchell Powell

Lawrence V. Mowell, Jr.

Linda L. and Bichop J. Nawrot

Linda and J. Ronald Spencer

Barbara Walden and Jody Blankenship

Judith S. Wawro

Debrah Welling and Jack Intrator

Carol R. Whitmer

Linda and James Williams

Henry M. Zachs

MEMBERS

Members of the Connecticut Museum are the lifeblood of the organization. Their membership dues and their volunteerism have kept the organization and its collections and programs strong and relevant for nearly two centuries.

LIFE MEMBERS

Elizabeth Abbe and Terry Harlow

Susan B. Aller

Ken M. Anderson

Awilda Aponte-Johnson and Kenneth D. Johnson

Eloisa Barlow

Susan C. and Malcolm F. Barlow

Arthur R. Bauman

Robert J. Bazyk

Pamela B. and Chester Paul Beach, Jr.

Maggie Bickford

Kathryn S. Black

Jody Blankenship

Philip E. Brencher, Jr.

Norma Bucko

Norman Canfield

Shari and Michael A. Cantor

Sara S. Champion

Leslie K. and James W. Chapman

Sandra Chen

George M. Chester, Jr.

Elizabeth F. Collins

Martha Collins

Susan Copeland

Portia and M. Timothy Corbett

P. L. Crafts, Jr.

Mary Crary

Helen Granberry M. Crowley

Augustus W. E. Dangremond

David W. Dangremond

Samuel P. C. Dangremond

Mary Jane Dapkus

Nancy Dart

E. F. Davis

Barbara L. de Mare

Anna Mae D'Elia and Andrew A. D'Elia

Martha E. and Anthony F. Dewey

Christine Ermenc and William Hosley

Gerson Escobar-Arroyo and Raymond Bertuzzi

Lynn H. Ferrari and Virgina Seeley

Robert M. Finch

Vaughan Finn and Stephen L. Nightingale

Timothy S. Fisher

Anne C. Fitzgerald

Robert P. Forbes

Ilene J. Frank and Darlene Yule

Rebecca M. Fuller

Margaret J. Geiger

Wendy Corcoran Welling Gerjets

Cynthia Heering-Tuchman and Rick Tuchman

Angeline M. Hein

Madeleine R. Hexter

Priscilla Romans Hexter

Ann S. and Kevin J. Hughes

Mary Jeanne A. Jones

Theodora A. Judge-Kret and Robert A. Kret

Sylvia B. Kelly and Harvey Kelly

Janice and David M. Klein

Rena B. Koopman

Ursula G. Korzenik

Christopher Larsen

Leslie and James Lyman

Dixon Cropper Mallory

Kathleen Coville Marr

Manfred Martin

David J. McQuade

Miriam and M. Stephen Miller

Susan G. and David L. Motycka

Carle and Lawrence

V. Mowell, Jr.

Linda L. and Bichop J. Nawrot

Matthew Nemerson

Sally M. and Peter J. O'Brien, Jr.

Diane Parrish

Gail L. and David B. Porteus

JoAnn H. Price

Nancy T. Rankin

Lisa M. and David Riss

Brenda Hubbard Roggeveen and Robert Roggeveen

Manisha Sinha

John G. T. Slater, Jr.

Courtland L. Smith

Timothy H. Smith

Judy Smuda

Carolyn R. Spencer

Elizabeth Lennon Spencer

Kate Steinway and Paul B. Zolan

Leontine M. Thomson

Richard G. Tomlinson

Merle Joan Trager and David S. Trager

Julie B. and Richard J. Twilley

Gilbert A. Tyler

Sally S. Vaun

Dawn P. and Mark von Mayrhauser

Louise S. and Corbin B. Walburger

Judith S. Wawro

Lois Ann and William Weissenburger

Debrah Welling and Jack Intrator

Carol R. Whitmer and Thomas Colvin

Wenda C. Wilcox

James C. Williams

Lynne Williamson

Arlene M. Wood

Henry M. Zachs

Suzanne Zajac and Cli ord A. Birdsey

CURTIS VEEDER CIRCLE, GOLD

$5,000

Jessica Chen

ELLEN LARNED CIRCLE

$500

Du eld Ashmead, IV and Eric Ort

Patricia Barletta and Edward Guay

Nancy Brennan

Beverly J. and Richard L. Hughes, III

Eloise W. and Marshall E. Linden

Borden W. Painter, Jr.

John Michael Reynolds

Nina P. Z. and Stephen V. F. Waite

THOMAS DAY CIRCLE

$300

Allison Reilly-Bombara and Jay C. Bombara

Marla J. and John F. Byrnes

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Mary S. Lycan

Barbara F. Martin

Peter Flagg Maxson and John C. R. Taylor, III

David J. McQuade

Linda J. Mead

Kenneth P. Minkema

Janet T. and Robert H. Murphy, Jr.

Donald N. Nichols

Don O. Noel, Jr.

Marsha E. Grant Ocain and William E. Ocain

Penny and Jack Pearson

Veronica J. Penn

Jennifer Francis Pina

Eleanor Skroza Prokupek

Lewis Robinson

Frederick N. Rowland

Ira L. Spar

Carolyn R. Spencer

Margaret O'Meara Storrs

June H. Wadsworth

Janet Ward

Melinda and Paul Moore Whitbeck

$50 to $149

Arthur and Elizabeth Godbout Family Foundation

Eleanor N. and John H. Barnes

Rebecca L. Swanson-Bowers and James E. Bowers

Peter B. Brainard

Patricia Kane and W. Scott Braznell

Irene Q. Brown and Richard D. Brown Fund

Ruth Brainard Cutler

Rosemary A. Daley

Sandra K. and Arthur C. DeGra , Jr.

Brenda P. DelGado

Salvatore A. DiPillo

Katharine Farnham

Joan L. and Daniel A. Fine

Rebecca M. Fuller

Carolyn and David D. Furer

Eben W. Graves

Joseph F. Greene, Jr.

Kathryn Greene

Virginia S. and David M. Hilyard

David M. Hinckley

Chloe L. and Wesley W. Horton

Charbra A. and Loftus H. D. Jestin

Eva G. Klinger

Gale S. and Bernard Kosto

Lee G. Kuckro

Julie G. Leblanc

Sharon S. and Guy F. Marhewka

Gwen and Tom Marrion

Neil E. Mellen

Robert A. Morgewicz, II

Harold Joseph Olmsted

Brie P. Quinby and Evan R. Cowles

James C. Robbins

Virginia T. Robinson

James P. Rosen

Mary Foote Rounsavall

Wen Chyi Shyu and James Hook

Judith Silberstein

Barry N. Sisk

DeForest W. Smith

The Hartford Financial Services Group

Lesley Morgan Thompson and Alvin W. Thompson

Sara L. Tobin

Pat Vibert

Karen Volinski

Katherine Wadsworth

Jane G. Clarke-Wadsworth and William M. Wadsworth

Rosemary and Thomas J. Wall

Connie Y. and Kou Ping Yu

Ellen T. and Peter M. Zeman

Up to $49

Michael Allen

AmazonSmile Foundation

Shelby M. Balik

Rita M. Barredo

Bryan Bennica, Jr.

Christopher Bishop

Carlyle H. Black, II

Edith M. Carlson

Heather Chase

Jessica Chen

Frank Chiaramonte

Joseph G. Clark

Frances G. and David A. Cohen

Robert A. Curtis

Christine E. Daniels

Mary Jane and Stanley E. Dapkus

Nancy Dellagrotta

Katie Dimancescu

Patricia A. and John C. DiPerno

Shelbie Drake

Celeste Dzialo and Michael K. Miller

Peg Eddy

Anita C. Ellis

Federated Garden

Clubs of Connecticut

Joanne E. Foodim and Robert P. Forbes

Amy L. Brenner-Fricke and Stephen P. Fricke

Peter Grant and John Quinn

Elizabeth B. Grasser

Barry Gray

Zadelle Krasow Greenblatt and Arthur Greenblatt

Paul D. Gronback

Todd Habersang

Patricia K. and David M. Hadlow, Jr.

Jesse M. Harris

Eric Herschthal

Peter Pringle Hinks

Anne S. Holcombe

Christine A. and John A. Holley

Marcia B. and John W. Horan

Mary Ellen Jacobs and James W. Jacobs, Jr.

Craig R. Johnson

Judith G. Katzmark

Judith Ann Keene

Margaret Keenan

Elizabeth A. and William Keister, Jr.

Lauire S. Kelly

Denise and Peter W. Kennedy

Kris Kersch

John Lankenau

Jack E. Larson, Jr.

Kathleen Frederick and Eugene E. Leach

Louise V. Leake

Allyson S. and William J. Long, III

Rafael Lopez

Carol E. Macknis

Helen H. and Jack W. Martin

Valerie L. Mathes

Anne E. McAloon

Ellen J. Meinke

Lynn S. Mennillo

Justine Miller

Karen Li Miller

Mark and Jean Molloy

Patricia A. Moran

Diantha Morse

Sally M. and Peter J. O'Brien, Jr.

Rita-Ann and Brent M. Owen

Susan L. Palmer and Richard F. Westphal

Olivia C. and Curtis L. Patch

Diana R. Paulin

Tina S. Pesola

Anne M. Pie'

Raphael L. Podolsky

John F. Polhemus

Eileen S. and Elliott B. Pollack

Robert Randich

Kenneth Rockwell

Donald W. Rogers

Kevin Rosentreter

Richard L. Rowley

Dorothea C. Roy

Geraldine M. Rozie

Philomena M. and Frederick W. Sawyer III

Mary E. and Milo Winston Scherer

Anne E. Schick

Brett Schulte - The Siege of Petersburg Online

Robert A. Selig

Gail and William Shay

Marilyn L. and Michael E. Shay

Carol Sicbaldi

Barbara Sicherman

Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendents

Kathryn Tanswell

The Hartford

Greg D. Tranter

DeLois Traynum-Lindsey

True North Associates, LLC

Becky and Tom Trutter

Joan Twiggs and Irene Scheibner

Katherine W. and Thomas F. Upson

Donna Vickers

Janet Hiller and John Volpini

Brenna Wade

Lynn Hayden Wadhams and John Wadhams

Gwen P. Weisberg

Patricia A. Welch

Alice Marshell-Wicke and Donald K. Wicke

Edwin P. Williams

J. Fenton Williams

DONATIONS IN MEMORY OR IN HONOR OF

Members and donors support the Connecticut Museum while memorializing or honoring their family members or friends.

Cli Alderman

Art and June Bailey

Geroge R. D'Annolfo, Sr.

Priscilla Romans Hexter

Frances Hoxie

Kenneth McClen

Cli ord Mitchell, Jr.

Capt. Richard Olmsted

Amy B. Robinson

Myrtle Rowland

Theodore Space

Richard Welling

SPONSORS

Sponsors make a di erence in the community by supporting programs, exhibitions, and projects at the Connecticut Museum.

The Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation

Barnes Group, Inc.

Berkshire Bank Foundation

Ellen M. Brown

Chelsea Groton Bank

Connecticut Cultural Fund

Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development

Connecticut Humanities

Connecticut Public

EyeWitness News/Channel 3

The Gawlicki Family Foundation

Hartford Yard Goats/Los Chivos

Harvey & Lewis Opticians

Institute for Museum and Library Services

The George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation

Marketing Solutions, Inc.

M&T Charitable Foundation

National Education Association

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Archives

National Historical Publications and Records Commission

The Henry Nias Foundation

William G. Pomeroy Foundation

Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee

RMC Investment Advisors

Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut

Stanley Black & Decker

U.S. Department of Education

*The preceding annual report recognizes all gifts from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. Great care has been given in the preparation of this report. If you notice errors, please contact us at (860) 236-5621 or ask_us@connecticutmuseum.org, so we may correct the records. Thank you!

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