Congratulations to Terri Wilson, President of the Avon Historical Society and Today Magazine for winning the first-place Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) award for the story of Leverett Holden, an African-American soldier from Avon who answered Lincoln’s call to fight in the Civil War. Read the story on Today Publishing

Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has awarded the Avon Historical Society a $5,600.00 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant (CTCFOSG). A portion of this grant will support the engagement with Sawdust and Strata of Fairfield, CT, professional historic preservation and museum

In February Avon’s Town Historian and Church Historian Nora Howard (on the left) presented Heddy Panik, Society member/Trustee and volunteer in the Marian Hunter History Room of the Avon Free Public Library with a Commendation from the Avon Congregational Church for her “expert and professional care in processing thousands and

Thanks to the grant received from the Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic Committee, a story about the “Unearthing History” webinar series and the Brian D. Jones site appeared in the National Park Service’s most recent online magazine Wild and Scenic River Currents. Here is the link to

Did you ever wonder why Connecticut had mastodons but no mammoths? Find the answer to that and many other interesting facts in the article on the Brian D. Jones site - live on Connecticut Magazine’s website! Click here to read this article written by Janet Reynolds