with Derrick L. Strong (Eastern Pequot)

Free with Museum Admission, no advance reservation required

Join Strong for a public program of spoken word and images, featuring reading three original poems interspersed with teaching about Eastern Pequot culture, food, and sensibilities of place.

Strong’s spoken word pieces are based on visits to the Museum property as well as other coastal locations on Long Island Sound, places evocative of the pre-colonial history of the Eastern Pequots as what he calls a “paddle society” that navigated the region’s waterways in the dugout canoes called Muhshoon.

The Museum’s educational programming is supported by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut; Connecticut Humanities; the Randolph and John Dirks Fund; the John and Kelly Hartman Foundation; the Sally Bill Children’s Education Fund; the Betty M. Challgren Education Fund; the Elizabeth Matthews Hubbard Education Fund; the Ingalls Foundation Education Fund; the Sali Godard Riege Educational Fund; the Lelan F. Sillin, Jr. Education Endowment Fund; as well as supporters of the Museum’s Annual Benefit Auction and Dinner Dance. 

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