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17th-Century Connecticut Symposium- Registration Closed

 Date: 9/15/2012
 Starting Time: 9:00:00 AM
 Ending Time: 3:30:00 PM

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Connecticut's 17th-century past has long been a "lost century" in history. This symposium provides an opportunity to share information and learn about this mysterious period iin Connecticut's history. This year's speakers:

Dr. Joseph R. Avitable: "Connecticut's Integration into the Atlantic Economy"

Rebecca Guernsey: "Gifts from the Dead: The Beneficiaries of 17th-Century Probate Records"

William Hosley: "Connecticut's 17th-Century Material Culture, Problems, Prospects and Possibilities"

Dr. Kevin McBride, Laurie Pasteryak, David Naumec, Ashley Bissonnette: "Battlefields of the Pequot War: Project, Documents and Archaeology"

Alice Plouchard Stelzer: "Finding Invisible Seventeenth-Century Women"

Donarita Vocca: "The Revered and the Reviled: Two Early Families of Connecticut"

Directions:

$25 a person. Symposium fee includes morning coffee and lunch. Registration required by September 13.

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