{"id":2370,"date":"2020-09-16T18:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2020-09-16T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:13:37","slug":"armchair-tour-of-west-hartford-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/16\/armchair-tour-of-west-hartford-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking on the neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1053\" height=\"785\" class=\"wp-image-2396\" style=\"width: 1053px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Firefox_Screenshot_2020-09-08T17-51-41.095Z.png\" alt=\"Noah Webster House video grab\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Firefox_Screenshot_2020-09-08T17-51-41.095Z.png 1053w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Firefox_Screenshot_2020-09-08T17-51-41.095Z-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Firefox_Screenshot_2020-09-08T17-51-41.095Z-600x447.png 600w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Firefox_Screenshot_2020-09-08T17-51-41.095Z-768x573.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kudos to the Noah Webster House &amp; West Hartford Historical Society for its &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/noahwebsterhouse.org\/armchair-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armchair Tour of West Hartford History<\/a>,&#8221; a series of video tours created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the tours focus on West Hartford history, many touch on Hartford&#8217;s as well. For instance, there&#8217;s a visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=602297370479916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American School for the Deaf<\/a>&#8211;which began on Main Street in Hartford and moved to its present campus on South Main Street in West Hartford in 1921. Of course, there&#8217;s also one on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?v=578247526408176&amp;ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elizabeth Park<\/a>, which straddles the Hartford-West Hartford line. Jennifer Matos, executive director of the museum, hosts each episode. You&#8217;ll find them on the museum&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/noahwebsterhouse\/\">Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/noahwebsterhouse.org\/armchair-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/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>Kudos to the Noah Webster House &amp; West Hartford Historical Society for its &#8220;Armchair Tour of West Hartford History,&#8221; a series of video tours created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the tours focus on West Hartford history, many touch on Hartford&#8217;s as well. For instance, there&#8217;s a visit to the American School for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/16\/armchair-tour-of-west-hartford-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Checking on the neighbors&#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":[72,73,71,70,69],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-school-for-the-deaf","tag-elizabeth-park","tag-noah-webster","tag-video-tours","tag-west-hartford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","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=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}