{"id":677,"date":"2018-01-15T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-01-15T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:47:42","slug":"capital-community-college-hosting-local-history-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/capital-community-college-hosting-local-history-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Community College hosting local history lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Capital Community College will kick off its Hartford Studies Lecture and Discussion Series on Thursday, January 25, with a public talk by historian William Hosley, who will outline how local art, architecture, and archives can &#8220;attract talent and foster innovation and teamwork&#8221; in Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Centinel Hill Hall Auditorium of the college, which occupies the former G. Fox &amp; Co. department store at 950 Main Street. The auditorium is on the 11th floor.<\/p>\n<p>Hosley&#8217;s talk will be the first in a series of four lectures on city history, with the other three held on the last Thursdays of February, March, and April. The series, curated by Hosley, is co-hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalcc.edu\/hhp\/\">Hartford Heritage Project<\/a> and College Foundation as part of\u00a0 Capital\u2019s 50th anniversary commemoration.<\/p>\n<p id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515597190081_128052\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"0.3931177484337285\" class=\"highlight\">Hosley<\/span>\u00a0is a cultural resource development and marketing consultant, historian, preservationist, writer, and photographer. He was formerly director of the New Haven Museum and Hartford-based Connecticut Landmarks, where he cared for a chain of\u00a0 house museums, including Hartford\u2019s Butler-McCook and Isham-Terry houses. Prior to that, he served as curator and exhibition developer at Wadsworth Atheneum, where his exhibit &#8220;Sam &amp; Elizabeth: Legend and Legacy of Colt\u2019s Empire<i>&#8221; <\/i>(1996) helped spawn the Coltsville National Park.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capcommcollege.org\/2018\/01\/14\/local-history-lecture-series-begins-january-25th-at-capitals-centinel-hill-hall-auditorium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital Community College will kick off its Hartford Studies Lecture and Discussion Series on Thursday, January 25, with a public talk by historian William Hosley, who will outline how local art, architecture, and archives can &#8220;attract talent and foster innovation and teamwork&#8221; in Hartford. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Centinel Hill Hall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/capital-community-college-hosting-local-history-lecture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Capital Community College hosting local history lectures&#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":[26],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}