4th Webinar in Unearthing History Series Scheduled for September
The 4th webinar in the series “Unearthing History: The Discovery of a 12,500-year-old Paleo-Indian site along the Farmington River in Avon, CT,” will be held on Thursday, September 9 at 7:00 pm.
The presenter is Dr. Lucianne Lavin, Director of Research and Collections, Institute of American Indian Studies Museum located in Washington, CT. The title of her talk is “Connecticut Native American Communities, Past, and Present.” She will elaborate on the long and rich history of CT’s Indigenous communities with a focus on the Paleo-Indians who worked at the Avon site for many years.
She is the author of Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples – What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures, 2013, Yale University Press. The book was funded by a grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford.
Registration is through the Avon Free Library website: www.avonctlibrary.info
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