Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Community Center in Hartford, CT
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center holds the biggest collection of material related to the Beecher and Stowe extended families, members of the culturally significant Hartford, CT, Nook Farm neighborhood, and resources relating to Harriet Beecher Stowe's ground breaking novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Developed around the nucleus originally collected by the late Katharine Seymour Day, the collection has grown to be a lot of material on nineteenth-century America.
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read moreThe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is a nonprofit museum and cultural center in Hartford, CT with an active program schedule and house tour experience. Our mission: The Stowe Center preserves and interprets Stowe's home and the Center's historic collections, promotes vibrant discussion of Stowe's life and work, and inspires commitment to social justice and positive change. Stowe's 1871 home is a National Historic Landmark. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is an Affiliate of the American Writers Museum.
read moreTopics include modern slavery and human trafficking, multi-cultural families, the roles of women, and systemic racism. Buy the featured book in the Stowe Museum Store and have the author sign it (at events where the author is present). Join facilitated discussions on books and other writing by winners of the Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice. Unpack the issues, themes, and content of writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, and Michelle Alexander. Each year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center offers Stowe House tours, family activities, a Salons at Stowe conversation, and noon bell ringing for peace.
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