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Historic Events

Votes for Women — Panels 1, 2, & 3

Votes for Women: The Road to Victory is a beautifully rendered, eleven-panel exhibit that seamlessly blends original artwork with a visually stimulating overview of Women’s Suffrage history in celebration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment.

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Art

Desire Under the Elms

NUGGET #4 Desire Under the Elms: 1924 play by Eugene O’Neill (q.v.), said to have been inspired by the playwright’s time spent here. “It was not Brook Farm that inspired his

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Biography

Camp, Rev. Samuel

NUGGET #3 Camp, Rev. Samuel (1744-1813) was the first settled pastor, 1769, of Ridgebury Congregational Church; served as pastor for thirty-five years, until 1804, when he was obliged to resign, probably

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Biography

Bailey, Halcyon Gilbert

NUGGET #2 Bailey, Halcyon Gilbert (1828-1905) married Emily Keeler of Ridgebury Road in 1854; Bedini describes satirical campaign Gilbert ran, complete with posters, for office of town hayward — posters generally

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Biography

Bailey, Dr. Annie Keeler

NUGGET #1 Bailey, Dr. Annie Keeler (1855-1927), a Ridgefield native, was one of first women physicians in Connecticut; graduated 1876 from State Normal School (now Central Conn. Univ.), and studied 1881-86;

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Votes for Women exhibit
Ridgefield

Votes for Women at Town Hall

Votes for Women, an exhibit in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women throughout the country access to

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