{"id":2075,"date":"2019-09-16T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:25:05","slug":"re-the-boys-girls-clubs-of-hartford-people-of-color-in-the-ancient-burying-ground-and-sol-lewitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/re-the-boys-girls-clubs-of-hartford-people-of-color-in-the-ancient-burying-ground-and-sol-lewitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: the Boys &#038; Girls Clubs of Hartford, people of color in the Ancient Burying Ground, and Sol LeWitt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctexplored.org\/fall-2019-family-history-separating-fact-from-fiction\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CTE_Fall-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Connecticut Explored, Fall 2019 issue\" class=\"wp-image-2076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CTE_Fall-2019.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CTE_Fall-2019-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Fall 2019 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctexplored.org\/fall-2019-family-history-separating-fact-from-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fall 2019 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine<\/a> includes an article from me on the history of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford, which was a launch pad for the national B&amp;G Clubs movement. You&#8217;ll need a subscription to read it &#8230; so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctexplored.org\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"subscribe (opens in a new tab)\">subscribe<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Hartford-related articles in\nthe issue include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cUnburying Hartford\u2019s Native and African-American Histories,\u201d Katherine A. Hermes\u2019 overview of the <a href=\"http:\/\/africannativeburialsct.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"effort to tell the stories (opens in a new tab)\">effort to tell the stories<\/a> of an estimated 300-plus people of color who are buried in the Ancient Burying Ground, the city\u2019s earliest extent graveyard. (It also the subject of an episode of \u201cGrating the Nutmeg,\u201d the podcast associated with Connecticut Explored. You can listen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/\">https:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/<\/a>.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe LeWitts Raise a World-Class Artist,\u201d an adaptation of Larry Bloom\u2019s new biography, \u201cSol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas.\u201d LeWitt, who became one of the most important artists of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century though his pioneering work in minimalism and conceptualism, spent the first six years of his life in Hartford. He and his parents lived in a spacious house on the north end of Main Street, not far from the hospital that his father, a surgeon, co-founded: Mount Sinai. But when Sol\u2019s father died of a heart attack in 1934, amid financial troubles brought on by the Great Depression, the boy and his mother moved to an apartment in New Britain. \u00a0LeWitt\u2019s connection to Hartford didn\u2019t end there, however. He took art classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum, which would later display his work, though the LeWitt-Hartford relationship was usually, the Hartford Courant notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/ctnow\/arts-theater\/hc-ctnow-lary-bloom-sol-lewitt-bio-20190530-mruwc6gejjartilxrbl7lcxfba-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"contentious (opens in a new tab)\">contentious<\/a>. \u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall 2019 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine includes an article from me on the history of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford, which was a launch pad for the national B&amp;G Clubs movement. You&#8217;ll need a subscription to read it &#8230; so subscribe! Other Hartford-related articles in the issue include: \u201cUnburying Hartford\u2019s Native &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/re-the-boys-girls-clubs-of-hartford-people-of-color-in-the-ancient-burying-ground-and-sol-lewitt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re: the Boys &#038; Girls Clubs of Hartford, people of color in the Ancient Burying Ground, and Sol LeWitt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,57,36,58,56,9,40,59],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-african-americans","tag-art","tag-cemeteries","tag-colonial-hartford","tag-kevin-flood","tag-newspapers-magazines","tag-nonprofits","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}