The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a book talk with Library Director Sue Smayda, on Friday, October 23rd at 2:00 p.m. Come to the Barnes for a lively discussion of Mark Twain’s story of Huckleberry’s trip down the Mississippi with runaway slave, Jim. This timeless classic is sure to delight readers of every age.
Sign up for this book discussion on the Library’s Events Calendar.
The Barnes Museum is sponsoring a Historic Oak Hill Cemetery Walking Tour on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 1 pm with Southington historian Attorney Liz Campbell Kopec who recently published a Southington historic pictorial in the renowned Images of America book series.
The historic walking tour will commence at the Bradley, Yeomans, Barnes Memorial Chapel in Oak Hill and will take you back through the oldest sections of the cemetery to the gravesites of Southington’s forefathers and Samuel Woodruff’s family who were the first colonial settlers of Southington that moved here from Farmington around 1698. Revolutionary and Civil War soldier tombstones will also be viewed during the tour as well as many other outstanding and historically significant tombstones.
Tickets are $5 and are available in advance at the Barnes Museum, the Southington Chamber of Commerce in Factory Square on Center St., and at Attorney Kopek’s office at 886 South Main St., Plantsville. Tickets will also be available at Oak Hill Cemetery on the day of the event. For additional information call the museum at 860-628-5426.
