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When: Fridays & Mondays 10 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm & 3 pm. Saturdays & Sundays 11:30 am & 3 pm thru Walktober Entry Fee Event,

The tour is of the exhibit “Canterbury Female Boarding School: Courage, Conscience, & Continuance,” and encompasses five rooms of the first floor. The second floor is not open to the public at this time. After the tour, which lasts approximately1 – 1.25 hours, visitors are welcome to return to the exhibit for further exploration. The museum is not decorated as a traditional historic house museum. Teachers, students, and supporters left few primary sources on how rooms were used during the time the Canterbury Female Boarding School was in operation, and few artifacts connected to the school have survived. The exhibit shares the stories of the school’s teachers and students and demonstrates expressions of support and opposition at the town, state, national, and global levels during the tumultuous seventeen months the school remained open. Tours are conversational. Dialogue between guides and visitors show how the legal expansion of education opportunities connects the Canterbury Female Boarding School to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka U.S. Supreme Court case. We hope visitors leave inspired to continue the mission of Sarah Harris and Prudence Crandall by addressing current barriers to education. EntryThursdays reserved for pre-booked private tours of 10 to 15 people. Sponsored by Prudence Crandall Museum, ctvisit.com

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