Annual Meeting and Talk
Jeff Brand2023-03-24T13:37:07-07:00February 23, 6:00pm (on zoom-and free) Register by clicking here What a year it has been! Join us for our 2023 Annual Meeting. We will have a brief meeting [...]
Comic Books
Jeff Brand2022-01-05T12:02:41-07:00Becoming Norwich: The Early Years explores the story of the Connecticut settlers as they came up the river, met the local Abenaki community, and began to build homes [...]
Aunt Ella’s Diary: Family (#8)
Jeff Brand2021-11-12T11:18:00-07:00Who were the important people in Ella Sargent's life? We see some names repeated frequently in Ella's diaries. Who were they? 1938 photograph of Ella Sargent, two years before [...]
Paul Sample’s Ski Jump
Jeff Brand2021-11-12T06:33:16-07:00by Lauren Pidgeon This is Eleanor Fitzgerald teaching a Ford Sayre skiing lesson. The Altow Ski Area was a popular place during the winters of the 1940s [...]
Norwich Christmas Pageant
Jeff Brand2021-11-12T06:17:29-07:00by Lauren Pidgeon Betty Booth and the Christmas Pageant Up Elm Street and to the right was once Betty Booth's house. Betty moved to Norwich in 1950 and lived here [...]
Mechanic Street
Jeff Brand2021-11-12T06:19:56-07:00by Kevin Hybels Where was Mechanic Street? The historical society frequently gets questions from people wanting to know more about the history of their house, street, or neighborhood. [...]
Blood Brook
Jeff Brand2021-11-12T06:18:27-07:00It's obligatory to stop on the Blood Brook bridge while on a Hopson Loop walk. Top and look over the bridge. You are gazing at the Paleozoic era. These are [...]
About the Norwich Historic Preservation Commission
Jeff Brand2022-01-04T12:08:43-07:00The Norwich Historic Preservation Commission (NHPC) is a municipal commission that seeks to raise appreciation of the Town's historic landscapes, sites, structures, and people from all cultures. We champion the [...]
Online Exhibit: Norwich’s Vandalized Bible-Mending the Spaces Between
Jeff Brand2025-02-06T08:39:03-07:00Prompted by the discovery of a vandalized Bible in the Norwich Historical Society’s collection, 22 artists and poets respond to the theme “Mending the Spaces Between.” Their work responds [...]
The Cut Bible: Test page
Jeff Brand2021-11-05T13:43:38-07:00Norwich Historical Society Exhibition Call for Entries Norwich Historical Society is seeking submissions of art that expresses the theme of Mending the Spaces Between for a [...]