Community Event: Romantic Willimantic Fourth of July Independence Day Boom Box Parade
Volunteers, staff, and supporters of The Mill Museum will be marching in Willimantic, CT’s most electrifying event, the Fourth of July Independence Day Boom Box Parade! If you feel like marching, come join us! (Call 860-456-2178 for more information.) Or join the thousands of onlookers…
Exhibit Opening: The “Here It Is” Exhibit Opening.
Sat., July 1, 6 – 7:30 p.m. African American artist Justice – Michelle Thomas will be displaying her artwork at The Mill Museum this summer (see above). This event is subject to change, so please check our website and Facebook page. The opening is free…
Program: Victorian and Trim Tea
Sat., June 24, 1 – 3 p.m. Join us for tea at the Mill Museum! Held in historic Dugan Hall, 157 B Union Street, Willimantic, CT, 06226. A guest speaker will discuss Victorian architecture in Romantic Willimantic. $15 for members and $20 for the public.…
Program: Drop-in Spinning Bee with Peggy Church
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. In person at the Museum’s on-site classroom, Dugan Hall, 157-B Union Street, Willimantic. Bring a spindle or wheel and join us at this free event. Beginners are welcome. We are still requesting that you be COVID vaccinated. Please let us…
Program: Juneteenth Commemoration: Remembering the 29th and 30th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (Colored)
Mon., June 19, 12 noon. Join us and the Windham-Willimantic chapter of the NAACP at the Old Willimantic Cemetery (across Main Street from the Willimantic Stop and Shop) to decorate the graves of men of color who fought for freedom, equality, and the Union in…
Museum Activity: Docent Training
Sat., June 17, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., in person at our main building. Please pre-register by June 16 to director@millmuseum.org so that light refreshments and notebooks can be provided. If you like leading tours, or want to add to your public history resume, become a docent for…
Museum Family Activity: The Battle of the Frogs.
Sat., June 17, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. (ongoing), in person at the Museum’s Main Building. Learn the frog story that made Willimantic famous on the supposed anniversary day of the battle. What really happened? Did frogs really invade Windham, CT, on a hot summer…
Community Event: Third Thursday.
Thurs., June 15, 6 p.m. – 9 p. m. on Main St., Willimantic, CT. You are invited to join The Mill Museum and our colleagues from the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum at Willimantic, CT’s monthly summertime Third Thursday Street Fest. We will be at our…
Museum Lyceum: Remembering Jerimarie, the Mother of CT’s Transgender Rights Movement.
Regina Dyton will lecture about Jerimarie Liesegang at the Dugan building at 157B Union Street. A Willimantic resident and inductee of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, Leisegang has been called the Mother/Grandmother of the Transgender Movement in Connecticut. She marched in the first Hartford…