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SUMMARY:Exhibit Opening: Hope on the Horizon
DESCRIPTION:Hope on the Horizon\n \nMarch 5 – April 30\, 2026 \nThe Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society is delighted to present an exhibit featuring original oil paintings of local artist Christopher Straus. “Hope on the Horizon” will be on view at the museum from March 5 through April 30\, 2026. \nAn opening reception for “Chris Straus: Hope on the Horizon” will take place on Thursday\, March 5\, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society. The community is invited to meet the artist\, experience the exhibition\, and support both Straus and the museum by purchasing original paintings\, gift cards\, and limited matted giclée prints available in the museum’s West Hartford Gift Shop. \nStraus is deeply rooted in the West Hartford arts community\, studying at the West Hartford Art League and regularly painting alongside fellow local artists. Over the past 14 years\, he has built a loyal following for his vibrant landscapes\, flowers\, and sunsets\, which radiate a sense of joy and optimism. Drawing from family photographs\, he is highly selective about the images he chooses to paint\, and he is closely involved in visually editing the compositions he will paint. He hopes guests will visit the exhibit and leave with a smile and refreshed sense of hope. Christopher has surpassed the limits placed on him as an individual with intellectual and motoric special needs. \nStraus’s artwork has long resonated with local audiences\, including through his popular greeting cards\, which are currently regularly sold at Good Cause Gifts at West Hartford & Berlin\, CT.
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LOCATION:Noah Webster House\, 227 South Main Street\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06107\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 2026 Connecticut Spelling Bee
DESCRIPTION:The Connecticut Spelling Bee will return to West Hartford on Sunday\, March 8\, 2026\, and participants will compete for the chance to represent the state at the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee. \nThe 9th Annual Connecticut Spelling Bee is presented by the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society\, Connecticut’s Official Regional Partner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The competition begins at 1 p.m. on March 8 at the Hoffman Auditorium at the University of Saint Joseph\, located at 1678 Asylum Avenue in West Hartford. \nStudents who have made it to The Connecticut Spelling Bee have already won their school- or town-wide spelling bees. This year\, thousands of Connecticut students in grades 1-8 participated in the spelling bee program. From that\, 60+ are eligible to move on to The Connecticut Spelling Bee. This makes 2026 the largest and most competitive Connecticut Spelling Bee in recent history\, a number that grows each year. \nCheer on Connecticut’s top spellers! The Connecticut Spelling Bee is free and open to the public (first come\, first served). Live recordings are prohibited. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. For more information about The Connecticut Spelling Bee\, please email us at events@noahwebsterhouse.org.
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LOCATION:University of Saint Joseph\, 1678 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
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SUMMARY:Noah Webster: Partisan Federalist (1792-1843)
DESCRIPTION:Noah Webster: Partisan Federalist (1792-1843)\nThursday\, March 12\, 2026 \n6:30 p.m. \nTickets available now at: https://noahwebster.yapsody.com/event/index/857209/Noah-Webster-Partisan-Federalist-17921843\nIn 1789\, Noah Webster rejoiced along with his countrymen at the auspicious inauguration of George Washington\, America’s first president. Webster wrote to his new brother-in-law to explain that the many months spent as a forceful advocate on behalf of the new Federal Constitution were now over\, and he would leave his teaching and political work in Philadelphia to return to Connecticut; once back home\, he could practice law\, enjoy married life\, and raise a family. Noah Webster was only 31 years old. \nHowever\, a quiet\, private life was not yet possible for Webster\, as there was much work left for him to do in service of his country. Daunting as it had been for the Founding Fathers to design a new Federal government that met the approval of citizens in thirteen\, very diverse states\, the business of governing the nation under the provisions of the new U.S. Constitution would threaten to tear the young nation apart. \nAll the Framers of the Constitution\, (and Webster…whose ideas strongly influenced them) worried that political “factions\,” or “parties\,” would naturally contest each other for political power and control of national policies enforced by the new Federal government. They anticipated that these factions would appeal to the base of “popular” support and devolve into the kind of social anarchy that was then sweeping across Revolutionary France. \nBy the time President John Adams assumed office in 1797\, those fears were realized. Although Webster spent significant time on his great educational works like the American Dictionary of the English Language\, he continued to fully engage in media conflict on behalf of the Federalist Party. The Federalists dominated urban centers and the northeast but were losing influence with the rural districts\, as the Democratic-Republican Party coalesced around the leadership of Virginians Thomas Jefferson & James Madison. \nThe presidential election of 1800 was a vicious contest on both sides but is recognized as our nation’s first “peaceful transfer of power”. When Jefferson defeated Adams\, the torch was passed from one political party to another\, a promising sign for the future of the republic. Yet\, the threat of disunion loomed over America for the remainder of Webster’s life\, and he died in 1843 with much trepidation that the American experiment might not endure. \nThis program is co-hosted by the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society\, West Hartford 250\, and the West Hartford Town Historian. \nAbout The Presenter: \nCraig Hotchkiss has joined the Noah Webster house team as an education consultant and developed two high school outreach programs and public lectures on the life & legacy of Noah Webster\, to coincide with the national\, state & local initiatives surrounding the America250 anniversary on July 4\, 2026. \nMr. Hotchkiss taught United States History at South Windsor High School for 33 years\, including Honors & Advanced Placement classes\, and served as the History Department Chair for nearly a decade. \nUpon retirement\, Craig served as the Education Manager at The Mark Twain House & Museum\, where he presented scores of public outreach programs at schools\, libraries\, and other civic organizations throughout Connecticut and the entire Northeast.   Mr. Hotchkiss was also the Site Director for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Teacher Workshops at the museum for 5 years and taught a graduate level course Museum Education at Trinity College in Hartford. \nThis America250 presentation is supported by Eversource Energy & The Rotary Club of West Hartford.
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SUMMARY:Webster Wool Spinning Day | Life on the Webster Farm
DESCRIPTION:March 14 – Webster Wool Spinning Day \nOur costumed museum teachers will demonstrate how to spin sheep’s wool into yarn on our reproduction spinning wheels. Try your hand at “carding” the wool\, finger-spinning or using a drop-spindle\, while learning from a master. \nVisit the museum on select Saturdays from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. and enjoy live demonstrations from our experienced team of museum educators. Each demonstration will focus on a unique aspect of early American work and play. Stop by and learn about the trades and activities of life on the Webster farm! \nThis program is included in museum admission. Enjoy FREE general admission for children 12 and under for this event! \nFor more information\, please email events@noahwebsterhouse.org.
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LOCATION:Noah Webster House\, 227 South Main Street\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06107\, United States
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SUMMARY:WordHouse Poetry - March 18
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society for a FREE poetry reading on Wednesday\, March 18 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Each program begins with an open mic and features two headlining poets. This month’s poets are Judith Liebmann and Jefferson Singer. No registration is required and donations are greatly appreciated to support the not-for-profit museum. Please visit www.noahwebsterhouse.org/wordhouse-poetry/ for more information. \nAbout the poets: \nJefferson Singer is a poet and clinical psychologist living in West Hartford.  A recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize at Amherst College\, as well as a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship\, he obtained a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Yale University and went on to forge a career as a professor of psychology at Connecticut College over nearly 4 decades.  In recent years\, he has increasingly focused on writing poetry and has had poems appear in Sixfold\, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal\, the Medical Literary Messenger\, Hartford Arts Pages and the Winter Glimmerings anthology\, among other journals.  He published his first book of poems\, In Common Things (Shanti Arts Press) in 2024. He has given readings at The Packing House\, Noah Webster Library\, and for Poets from the CT’s Four Corners\, among other venues.  For this upcoming reading\, he will share new poems that focus on the extraordinary life of his late brother who successfully coped with chronic mental illness. \nJudith Liebmann has published poetry in Scientific American\, The New York Times\, The Laurel Review\, The Cream City Review among others and her work has been included in a number of anthologies. She recently published the collection\, Ekphrasis (PreSSappel\, 2024). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University\, where she taught for many years and where she served as the Director of the Writing Program at the Center for Independent Study at Yale. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship\, a Wilson Fellowship\, a Germanistic Society of America Grant\, a German University Exchange Grant and a writing grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts
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LOCATION:Noah Webster House\, 227 South Main Street\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Early American Adventure Camp!
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