Virtual talk on “Secret Connecticut” by Travel Writer Anastasia Mills Healy

On Sunday, May 16, 2021, at 2 p.m. the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will present travel writer and author Anastasia Mills Healy for an illustrated virtual talk on: Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, featuring a selection from the eighty-four engaging stories highlighted in her new book.

Ms. Healy pivoted her focus to her home state during the pandemic and brought to life Connecticut’s long history of intriguing people, places, and events that will surprise and fascinate even longtime residents.

A few examples will include the “mountain of evidence that a Fairfield resident, Gustave Whitehead, flew two years before the Wright Brothers,” and that “Connecticut was the site of the world’s first telephone exchange, first pay telephone, and first phone book; Connecticut also established the American School for the Deaf, the first school in the country for anyone with any disability.”