The Society offers a diverse selection of entertaining and insightful digital content. Whether you missed the latest Booked for Lunch, couldn’t attend a History Lecture Series, or just want to re-watch a previous episode of History is Here, now all the Society’s video offerings are in one convenient location.
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History is Here
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Booked for Lunch
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History Lecture Series
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Recollections & Remembrances
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Black History Resources
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Lectures
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Walking Tours
History is Here:
Episode 1: Shaken, not Stirred
Episode 2: Dairy Cows and Double Plays
Episode 3: Fact or Fiction: Colonial Living
Episode 4: Remembering Dave Brubeck
Episode 5: Monarch and Musket Balls
Episode 6: 30 Years of Solitude
Episode 7: Unstandardized Testing
Episode 8: Headlines From History: Wilton's Weird Weather
Episode 9: The Toolman Cometh
Episode 10: Wilton: Siwanog Tribe, English Parish, American Town
Episode 11: Am I Not a Man and a Brother
Episode 12: Bonesaws and Bloodletting
Episode13: Created in Compromise
Episode 14: The Music in Her Life
Episode 15: Race Relations in Wilton
Episode 16: Rebels and Redcoats
Booked for Lunch:
Booked for Lunch: "The Woman's Hour" by Elaine Weiss
Booked for Lunch: "Eight Flavors" by Sarah Lohman
Booked for Lunch: Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins
Booked for Lunch: The Agitators by Dorothy Wickenden
Booked for Lunch: The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott
Booked for Lunch: Free the Beaches
History Lecture Series
2021 History Lecture Series: Charles Ives and the American Music Identity
2021 History Lecture Series: The Story of Famous Artists School and its Connecticut Roots
2021 History Lecture Series: The Greatest Showman – Fiction vs Fact!
2021 History Lecture Series: Gillette and Holmes
2022 History Lecture Series: Nicholas Biddle's War with Andrew Jackson
2022 History Lecture Series: JP Morgan: An American Aristocrat
2022 History Lecture Series: Henry Ford’s Borrowed Humanity – Julie Fenster, Author and Historian
2023 History Lecture Series: BENDING THE ARC – Dr. Janus Adams
Recollections & Remembrances
Recollections and Remembrances: Stories of Wilton's Yesterdays
Black History Resources
Cutline in the Community, Connecticut: True Abolitionist?
Enslaved Black Residents and Their Descendants: Five Lives from Wilton’s Past
Booked for Lunch: Free the Beaches
Episode 11: Am I Not a Man and a Brother
Episode 14: The Music in Her Life
Episode 15: Race Relations in Wilton
Finding the Forgotten: The Enslaved of Wilton
Lectures
Caring for the Vote: Mothers and Suffragists in Wilton, Connecticut
Energy Efficiency and the Historic House
Women of Wilton, WOW!
Bob Russell at the Wilton Historical Annual Meeting, June 18, 2019
Bob Russell Wilton Reads Author Talk 2022
Walking Tours
Congregational Church Tour with Bob Russell, November 18, 2018
Lambert Corner Walking Tour with Bob Russell, June 8, 2019
Hillside Cemetery Walking Tour with Bob Russell, June 22, 2019
Spirits of the Past with Bob Russell, November 2, 2019
Hillside Cemetery Walking Tour with Bob Russell, October 5, 2019