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Current Public Schedule

If you’d like to attend one of Walt’s upcoming talks, please view his current schedule below.

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  • October 2, 2022 – “The Amazing Legend and Even More Interesting History of the Charter Oak,” Hartland Historical Society , Town Library, Center Street, West Hartland , CT – 2:00pm 

  • October 5, 2022 – Walt Woodward and the Band of Steady Habits – TBD – Noble & Cooley History Center, Granville, MA – 6:30pm 

  • October 7, 2022 – Walt Woodward & the Band of Steady Habits  Connecticut’s Old State House Farmer’s Market – Noon 

  • October 8, 2022 –  “The State Historians of Connecticut,” tentative title –  Pomfret Historical Society, Pomfret, TBD

  • October 15, 2022 – “Discussion – Witchcraft in Connecticut, ” Thames River Heritage Cruise 

  • October 16, 2022 – “What Makes Connecticut Connecticut,” Walt Woodward and the Band of Steady Habits, Vernon Historical Society 

  • October 19, 2022 – “New England’s Other Witch Hunt,” The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

Talks Affected By Covid 

  • July 30, 2020 –– Creating Connecticut,  Litchfield Community Center – 2:00 pm 421 Bantam Road, Litchfield.
  • September 10 –– Zoom Webinar  Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward,   Public Library, Southington –– 6:30pm.
  • September 17, 2020 – Zoom Webinar Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward , Danbury Public Library – 6:00pm 
  • September 22, 2020 – Zoom Webinar Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward , Prospect Library – 6:30pm
  • September 23, 2020 – Facebook Stream   The Hartford Election Cake – A Delicious COnnecticut Tradition, Old STate House, Hartford – 7:00pm
  • September 24, 2020 – Zoom Webinar Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward , Wilton Historical Society – 12:30pm
  • September 25, 2020 – Zoom Webinar Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward , Connecticut Historical Society – 2:00pm
  • September 30 , 2020 – Zoom Webinar Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward , Waterford Public Library – 6:30 pm
  • October 8, 2020 – Zoom Webinar Creating Connecticut “New England’s Other Witch Hunt,” Walt Woodward , Colchester Historical Society – 7:00pm
  • October 18, 2020 – Zoom Webinar Creating Connecticut “New England’s Other Witch Hunt,” Walt Woodward , Harwinton Historical Society – 2:00pm
  • October 22, 2020. Creating Connecticut. “Leaving Connecticut Shaping America,” Walt Woodward, Simsbury Free Public Library. –  6:30 pm 749 Hopmeadow St.
  • October 27, 2020 – Webinar Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward, Southington Genealological Society – 7:00pm The Orchards, Community Room, 34 Hobart St., Southington.
  • October 31, 2020 – Zoom Webinar ” New England’s Other Witch Hunt”; Walt Woodward, Connecticut Genealogical Society – TBD
  • November 5, 2020 – Creating Connecticut,Walt Woodward,  Brooklyn Historical Society – 7:00pm Trinity Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 7 Providence Road, Brooklyn, CT
  • December 6, 2020 – Creating Connecticut. “Walt Woodward, Harwinton Historical Society.  –6:30pm at Harwinton Town Hall 100 Bentley Rd., Harwinton.
  • April 17, 2021 – “Frost Season,”Walt Woodward and the Band of Steady Habits, Acton Public Library, Old Saybrook ––  2:00pm 60 Old Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook. [Covid-19]
  • March 12-14, 2020  – Walt Woodward Co-Moderates  the Plimoth at 400 Symposium at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts.   [Covid-19]
  • March 15, 2020  – “The Irish in Connecticut,” Walt Woodward and the Band of Steady Habits, Litchfield Community Center. –  2:00pm 421 Bantam Road, Litchfield. [Covid-19]

June 3, 2020  – Creating Connecticut. “The Burning Question Around Nathan Hale.” Walt Woodward, Leffingwell House.  Society of the Founders 119th Annual Meeting. – 5:30 pm at Otis Library 261 Main St., Norwich. [Covid-19]

  • June 4, 2020 – Zoom Webinar. Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward, Guilford Free Public Library – 7:00pm  Guilford Free Public Library, 67 Park Street, Guilford. Register to attend at  https://www.guilfordfreelibrary.org/creating-connecticut-with-state-historian-walt-woodward/41163/
  • June 7, 2020 – Creating Connecticut.“New England’s Other Witch Hunt,” Walt Woodward, Harwinton Historical Society.  –6:30pm at Harwinton Town Hall 100 Bentley Rd., Harwinton.[Covid-19]
  • June 8, 2020 – Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward, North Haven Memorial Library –  6:30pm North Haven Memorial Library, 17 Elm St., North Haven[Covid-19]
  • June 9, 2020 – Zoom Webinar. Creating Connecticut,  Walt Woodward, Connecticut’s Old State House, Hartford – 12:00pm 800 Main St., Hartford.
  • June 10, 2020 – Creating Connecticut, “Sweet Democracy: The Delicious History of the Connecticut Election Cake,” Walt Woodward, South Windsor Public Library. Friends of the Library Annual Meeting and Salad Luncheon – 12:00pm Wapping Community Church, 1790 Ellington Rd., South Windsor.[Covid-19]
  • June 10, 2020 – Walt Woodward and The Band of Steady Habits, Wintonbury Historical Society, Bloomfield –“Summer Frost” — 6:30pm Annual Meeting and Pot Luck Supper [Covid-19]
  • June 13, 2020 – “The Life and Death of Hannah Occuish,” Juneteenth Commemoration, New London Branch, NAACP – New London.[Covid-19]
  • June 16, 2020 – Story-Telling Night, Walt Woodward, Columbia Historical Society, Columbia – 6:30pm 319 CT87, Columbia [Covid-19]
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  • October 17, 2020 – “John Winthrop, Jr. & the Connecticut Witch Hunts,” Thames River Cruise, New London Historical Society – 1:00pm–3:00pm TBD
    • April 14, 2021  –– Zoom Webinar  Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward, Mansfield Historical Society, Mansfield –– 7:00pm.
    • May 20, 2021  –– Zoom Webinar  “Painting Patriotism”, University of Hartford President’s College, Walt Woodward, University of Hartford, Hartford  – 11:30am  
    • May 24, 2021  –– Zoom Webinar  Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward, Case Memorial Library, Orange, CT–– 7:00pm.
    • June 5, 2021  – “The Burning Question About Nathan Hale,”  Founders of Norwich, 12 noon, In person
    • June 8, 2021  –– Zoom Webinar  Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward, Adult Learning Program, Seabury retirement Community–– 11:00am.
    • June 10, 2021  –– Zoom Webinar  Creating Connecticut, Walt Woodward, South Windsor Public Library, South Windsor, CT–– 1:00pm
      • October 2, 2021 – Zoom Webinar 250th Anniversary Celebration of the Creation of the Governor’s Footguard, Hartford  
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