Event Calendar

Topsy's Legacy: Imagining Uncle Tom's Cabin After the Civil War

02/08/12
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, presented in collaboration with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Amistad Center for Art & Culture. Read More

Salons at Stowe: Slavery in Connecticut 2012

02/09/12
Human trafficking is modern day slavery. Join Hartford Police Officer Deborah Scates and Polly Marston of DCF to learn what is going on in our community and what you do to help stop it. Read More

Meet Hattie Stowe!

02/18/12
Take the Welcome to Our Home living history tour at 11 AM with Hattie Stowe. An insider's view of life with her famous mother. Read More

The Child's Tour

02/18/12 - 02/25/12
An interactive tour for children ages 5-12, every day during February Vacation. Read More

Salons at Stowe: Pollution Is Harmful to Your Health

02/23/12
with Leonard Lee, CT Department of Public Health Read More

Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour

02/24/12
Visit Stowe's home and learn more about the 19th century spiritualism and the paranormal in Hartford. Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - Griftopia

03/01/12
Griftopia by Matt Taibbi, at the Twain Museum Center Read More

Who is Uncle Tom?

03/01/12 - 09/30/12
A new exhibit coming to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Visitor Center. Read More

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

03/08/12
Book talk and signing with author Robin Bernstein, associate professor of African and African American Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Read More

Salons at Stowe: The Call for Freedom Heard Around the World: Uncle Tom’s Cabin at 160

03/15/12
Katherine D. Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Sponsored by Connecticut Explored, the magazine of Connecticut history. Read More

Uncle Tom's Cabin at 160: 24 hour Reading at the Stowe Center

03/20/12 - 03/21/12
To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Stowe's most famous work the Stowe Center will host a 24-hour reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin on March 20.
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Salons at Stowe: Women’s Wages Wanting

03/29/12
Teresa Younger, CT Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Dr. Janet Bauer, Trinity College, International and Women’s Studies Departments Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - Emancipation Narratives

04/05/12
Emancipation Narratives, a selection of works by Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson and Harriet Jacobs, at the Stowe Center Read More

Salons at Stowe

04/26/12
Topic to be announced Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - Pudd'nhead Wilson

05/03/12
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, at the Twain Center Read More

Salons at Stowe

05/24/12
Topic to be announced. Read More

Community Open House

06/09/12
Celebrate Stowe's 201st birthday! Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - Poganuc People

06/14/12
Poganuc People by Harriet Beecher Stowe, at the Stowe Center Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain

07/12/12
Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain by Hal Holbrook, at the Twain Museum Center Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - The Help

09/13/12
The Help by Kathryn Stockett, at the Stowe Center Read More