January 2021
Sleuthing Your Roots: Genealogy 101
Are you interested in learning more about your own family’s history? Join Fairfield Museum Library Director Karen Burke and Collections Manager Diane Lee for this 3-part series on how to get started, where to find important resources, and how to organize your research. Karen and Diane will share tips and tricks to help you uncover your family‘s unique story and they will be on hand to answer any of your questions. This program will be especially useful if you have…
Find out more »Fashioning our Identities: Women of the Early 20th Century
Fashioning our Identities: Women of the Early 20th Century, with Karen DePauw and Jessica Jenkins Sunday, January 24, 7pm This virtual event is free and can be streamed live on this event page, on our YouTube channel, or on our Facebook page. Groups throughout history have used fashion to establish their identities, and some have shaped their styles to promote specific facets of their inward beliefs and outward motivations. Join historians Karen DePauw and Jessica Jenkins as they explore the…
Find out more »Sleuthing Your Roots: Genealogy 101
Are you interested in learning more about your own family’s history? Join Fairfield Museum Library Director Karen Burke and Collections Manager Diane Lee for this 3-part series on how to get started, where to find important resources, and how to organize your research. Karen and Diane will share tips and tricks to help you uncover your family‘s unique story and they will be on hand to answer any of your questions. This program will be especially useful if you have…
Find out more »February 2021
Film Screening Days: “Lives Well Lived”
Free
Register below to receive your private link to watch "Lives Well Lived." A link will be emailed prior to the event date. To view all programs associated with this event click here. The film “Lives Well Lived” celebrates the incredible wit, wisdom and experiences of adults aged 75 to 100 years old. Through their intimate memories and inspiring personal histories encompassing over 3,000 years of experience, forty people share their secrets and insights to living a meaningful life. These men…
Find out more »My History as an Heirloom: How Will I Be Remembered?
Register below to receive a private link to this Zoom meeting. To view all programs associated with this event click here. Join the Fairfield Museum for a conversation about remembrances, celebrations of life, and preserving our histories for future generations. In this virtual program, meet guest speakers, learn about oral history and how to begin yours, and participate in a biographical sketch activity. Guest speakers include: Bonnie Collier, Director for the Yale Law School Oral History Project, Rebecca Lautenslager from Shaughnessey-Banks Funeral…
Find out more »Bonus Day! Watch “Lives Well Lived”
Free
Register below to receive your private link to watch “Lives Well Lived.” To view all programs associated with this event click here. The film “Lives Well Lived” celebrates the incredible wit, wisdom and experiences of adults aged 75 to 100 years old. Through their intimate memories and inspiring personal histories encompassing over 3,000 years of experience, forty people share their secrets and insights to living a meaningful life. These men and women open the vault on their journey into old…
Find out more »Oral History: A Virtual Hands-On Workshop
Register below to receive a private link to this Zoom meeting. To view all programs associated with this event click here. If you could hold on to one memory forever, what would it be? In this virtual “hands-on” workshop, join Bonnie Collier, Director for the Yale Law School Oral History Project, as she shares how to get started with an oral history project. The Fairfield Museum will share example of oral histories in our library, and Bonnie will guide you…
Find out more »March 2021
Death Café
Very limited attendance. Register below to receive a private link to this Zoom meeting. To view all programs associated with this event click here. A Death Café is a scheduled get-together to discuss an often taboo subject – death. The purpose is to educate one another and to help each other become more familiar with the end of life. The idea originated with a Swiss sociologist and anthropologist Bernard Crettaz, who organized the first café mortel in 2004. Bring along…
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