Haddam Historical Society

Thankful Arnold House Museum

December 1, 2022

THIS WEEKEND!

.Christmas Through the Ages at the

Thankful Arnold House Museum

To celebrate the holiday season, the Haddam Historical Society will host Christmas Through the Ages at the historic Thankful Arnold House Museum where visitors can step back, slow down and savor the sights, sounds and smells of the past.

The museum will feature three rooms curated to reflect different time periods from early America to the mid-20th century. The historic kitchen of the house will focus on Colonial Connecticut and will feature gingerbread houses including a replica of the Thankful Arnold House. The Front Parlor will highlight the elaborate and sumptuous Victorian period while the Back Parlor will illustrate a sleek, modern 1950s Christmas. Guest curators will create unique and memorable vignettes of holiday’s past.

The Society gift shop will be packed with a variety of goodies including themed gifts to capture the spirit of Christmas Through the Ages including old-fashioned candy, Colonial -period toys, locally handcrafted goods, kissing balls, holiday cards with scenes of area landmarks and so much more. In addition, visitors can enter our holiday raffle for fabulous prizes including a stay at the Mystic Inn, Old Saybrook Inn and Marina, Goodspeed Tickets, Restaurant gift certificates and a one-of-a-kind, luxury, handcrafted birdhouse. This is an event not to be missed.

Admission is FREE and will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, December 3 and 4, 2022 from 10 am to 4 pm and Saturday and Sunday, December 10 and 11, 2022 from 10 am to 4 pm. The museum is located at 14 Hayden Hill Road, Haddam, CT.

Haddam's Mile Markers

This week the Haddam Historical Society’s Director, Elizabeth Malloy is featured on Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut’s Beaten Path podcast with host Mike Allen. Click HERE for the podcast.

2023 Founders’ Day Award

This year the Haddam Historical Society acknowledged garden volunteer Dr. Diane Gawronski, DMD with the Founders’ Day Award. Diane has been responsible for our spectacular vegetable garden for the past two summers. This year she created an assortment of historic garden trellises including a tomato table and bean teepee. The center teepee not only featured a variety of beans but morning glory and moon flower. Squash and melons grew on a stick trellis and herbs were protected by stick stockades. Diane created an easy- to -read hand-out on “The Historic Art of Garden Trellising” and shared her knowledge with visitors and groups on her creating this delightful space.

Diane came to us as volunteer with the Master Gardener Program and created an artistic masterpiece in our little historic garden. Thank you, Diane.

Museum Makeover

The Haddam Historical Society/Thankful Arnold House Museum has completed their “Museum Makeover” project which consisted of reorganizing our office and collections processing space to create a more orderly and structured work area.

The grant program was sponsored by Conservation ConneCTion in partnership with the Connecticut League of History Organizations and funded by a $3000 grant from the CT Cultural Fund. The CT Cultural Fund is administered by CT Humanities, with funding provided by the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts from the Connecticut State Legislature.

We worked with the assistance of two traveling curators, Diane Lee of the Fairfield Museum and History Center/ Connecticut Collections Project Manager, CLHO and Barbara Pape, Curatorial Consultant.

With staff, the consultants surveyed and assessed the museums current collections and archival space and determined how to best reorganize it to create a more structured processing and storage area. New museum quality shelving was purchased as well as much needed map/large document storage cases. The makeover also included obtaining three temp/RH loggers to help us track museum temperature and humidity which is extremely important for the long term preservation of the objects and archives.

The museum makeover has improved accessibility, preservation and environmental conditions with respect to office operations and collections processing and storage for both staff, volunteers, researchers, students and visitors

THANK YOU

Our Fall Online Fundraising Auction was a tremendous success and we would like to thank everyone donated, participated and supported the Haddam Historical Society. A special shout out to our Auction Co-chairs, Tracy LaComb and Tim Jarrell. We would also thank the Town of Haddam for allowing us use of the HES Library.

Sponsors

Beauty Society, Jeneen Malone

Beauty Society, Joan Bragoni

Best Cleaners, Middletown

Caroline Gold Computers, Haddam

Digging for Good, Higganum

Essex Steam Train and Riverboat

Fitness & Tennis Center of Rocky Hill

Fromage Fine Foods and Coffee

Jessica's Color Room, Middletown

Lance-scaping, Haddam

Learn 2 Fly CT, East Haddam

Malloves Jewelers, Middletown

Mikes' Auto Service, Haddam

Nutmeg Pharmacy, Higganum

River Tavern, Chester

Shagbark Lumber and Farm Supplies, East haddam

Touchstone Crystal, Joan Bragoni

Town and Country Nurseries, Haddam

J.R. Wiese Enterprises-Firewood, Higganum

Wild Birds Unlimited, Old Saybrook

Wonder Paws, Haddam

Friends:

Acer Gardens, Deep River

Ballek's Garden Center, East Haddam

Lydia Brewster, Licensed Massage Therapist

Foodworks, Old Saybrook

Gelston House, East Haddam

Marker 37, Chester

Madison's Secrets Nails and Skin Care, Higganum

Mystic Market, Old Saybrook

Ottos, Chester

Pasta Vita, Old Saybrook

Pedal Power, Middletown

Spirit and Balance, Higganum

Tony's Package Store, Tylerville

History Champions

Mark and Jane Aldieri

Lydia Brewster

Donna and Scott Brinckerhoff

Marijean Conrad

Sue and Dave Costa

Phil Devlin

Susan Gascoyne

Rogene and Stewart Gillmor

Fred and Beth Hartke

Rob Harlow

Tim and Holly Jarrell

Tracy and Kevin LaComb

Rebecca Lineberry

Lynn MacLennan

Elizabeth and David Malloy

Carol Matregrano

Dianne and Jim McHutchison

Nancy Meyers

Sarah and David Neal

Amy and Dave Nichols

Cindy and Brian O’Neill

Lindamae Peck

Dr. Michael Powers

Dodie Ruimerman

Belle Seggerman

Cindy and John Sola

Carol and Terry Smith

Emily and Christopher Smith

Bob and Debra Waller

Haddam Historical Society

Thankful Arnold House

Hayden Hill Road, Haddam, CT

P.O. Box 97, Haddam, CT 06438

860-345-2400

contact@haddamhistory.org

www.haddamhistory.org

See what's happening on our social sites: