Home » Talks » Current Schedule

Current Schedule

Current Public Schedule

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

Interested in scheduling a talk or a combined talk and musical performance for your organization? Click here for information on how to request a lecture from Walt  or a presentation from the Band of Steady Habits.

  • September 21, 2023  – “The Curious Case of Silas Deane,” by Dr. Susan Holly, Senior Historian United States Department of State. Webb Deane Stevens Museum, Wethersfield, CT 6:00-8:00pm; Cost 15-20.  Following this lecture, Walt Woodward  will moderate an open discussion of the issues raised by exploration of the complicated career of the Founding Farther from Wethersfield.

  • October 4, 2023 – Walt Woodward and the Band of Steady Habits – “What Makes Connecticut, Connecticut?”  – Noble & Cooley History Center, Granville, MA – 6:30pm

  • October 19, 2023 – “New England’s Other Witch Hunt,”   Stonington Historical Society, LaGrua Center 6:00 pm

  • October 26, 2023 –  “The Alchemy of Justice: John Winthrop, Jr. and New England’s Other Witch Hunt,” Webb Deane Stevens Museum, 6:30pm

  • October27, 2022 – ““The Alchemy of Justice: John Winthrop, Jr. and New England’s Other Witch Hunt,”  Plainfield CT Historical Society, 6:30pm

  • October 29, 2023 – (tent.)  Museum of Darien Darien, CT 3:00pm

    • November 7, 2023 – Discussion of Walt’s Book Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State”  with Connecticut history course  students at Central Connecticut State University – 1pm

  • November 9, 2023 –“Leaving Connecticut, Shaping America: Surveying and Settling Connecticut’s Western Reserve” Connecticut Association of Land Surveyors, Hartford, Marriot

  • November 12, 2023 – “Walt Woodward and the Band of Steady Habits, Hampton Congregational church,  Hampton CT  – 300 Anniversary Performance

  • November 15, 2023 – (tent)  “A Family in History — The Three Century Long Story of Lyman Orchards,” Darien Library 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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]
  • Ju
  • 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