Some may recognize Willie Graham as the founder of WAACA, a community service-based organization dedicated to serving Windsor’s Black residents. However, Willie’s legacy of activism made a real difference in the lives of countless people throughout the Greater Hartford area.
In collaboration with the Senior Center. Learn about our newest exhibit, Inspiring Equal Participation: Windsor Afro American Civic Association, in a guided tour led by Sulema DePeyster, the Society’s community history specialist and lead researcher [...]
Join researcher Marcia Hinckley and historical society staff from noon to 1:30 PM at Windsor Historical Society for Exploring Windsor’s Black History Lunch Conversations: Housing in Windsor. Bring your own lunch for the discussion. Soft [...]
Join community historian Sulema DePeyster and Board member Florence Barlow for a lively in-person discussion of the WAACA experience and legacy. Bring your own lunch for the discussion. Soft drinks, snacks and a tour of [...]
Piecing together someone’s life from scant documentary records is a bit like closing your eyes through a silent film and only opening them for a second every few minutes. Such is the case for the Black men of Windsor who fought in the Revolutionary War. To see more of the picture of their lives, we must fill in the blanks with what we can infer from the records, what is known about other people in similar situations, and what we can speculate might have happened.
DNA, Genealogy, Ancestry – what does it all mean? Join international genealogist Sandra Taitt-Eaddy for a fun and fascinating 3-part workshop series designed to demystify the process for “finding your roots” both inside and outside [...]
DNA, Genealogy, Ancestry – what does it all mean? Join international genealogist Sandra Taitt-Eaddy for a fun and fascinating 3-part workshop series designed to demystify the process for “finding your roots” both inside and outside [...]
DNA, Genealogy, Ancestry – what does it all mean? Join international genealogist Sandra Taitt-Eaddy for a fun and fascinating 3-part workshop series designed to demystify the process for “finding your roots” both inside and outside [...]
Since the Society’s two historic houses have been closed for the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the staff has taken this opportunity to reinterpret the Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House to more deeply [...]
The service of a doctor requires skill, understanding, patience, and knowledge. To become one after being torn from your family and forced into servitude for a man you know nothing of makes the already arduous feat exceptional. In the late 18th century, after years of enslavement Dr. Primus Manumit became Windsor’s first Black doctor.