Holiday Fun Throughout Windham Area
The Partnership for Arts, Culture, History and Tourism has put together a calendar of events for the holiday season from November thru January. You can download a SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HERE. Please check back periodically as the events can change and new ones can be added. If you have an event you would like to add please EMAIL US HERE.
We wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season and New Year!
Small Museum Workshop Series
Wednesday, September 28, 1:00 PM, Jillson House Museum
CT Humanities staff will present information on this year's CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant that just opened for applications. This is not competitive-it is guaranteed money! We will not only explain the requirements but will also help you actually apply for the grant online immediately following the informational meeting. Free. Every museum, cultural and art organization should apply for these funds that you can use to pay your bills, rent, utilities, website, software, computers, etc.
The
America
Museum
Our Mission
The America Museum seeks to have visitors reflect upon and understand the events, struggles and sacrifices for freedom, equality, and democracy. The Museum creates concise unbiased and balanced exhibits on relevant topics that connect stories to current events. The public will be enlightened and engaged in discussion, interactive exhibitions, and programs. Americans must acknowledge and honor the brave, relish our victories, study the failures, help heal the scars, and ensure that we learn from the past.
Our Programs
LiberTea
Cabaret Night
Docent Training
Each month we host a "tea" where a famous historical figure who has contributed to our country's freedoms shares their story. These are held at our museum or at neighboring museums. Please see our calendar of events.
Entertaining and enlightening, our cabaret nights combine music, theatre, dance and history with period food and, of course, great company. Enjoy music from the WWII era while snacking on a WWII ration cake, and maybe a little wine!
After School Education
We partner with the Windham After School Program to provide an interesting history lesson, often presented by a famous historical patriot, to every elementary school weekly. Instructional and fun, presented in a manner that kids understand, interactive and focused on local events and people.
We partner with local area museums and provide a training program where volunteers learn the stories that make each historical location remarkable, how to work with visitors and how to make visitor experiences unique and interesting.
Exhibits
Our exhibits change frequently to reflect current events and popular trends. However, we have ongoing exhibits that honor the diverse group of Americans who helped shape our country.
65th Regiment
The Borinqueneers
The U.S. Army's 65th Infantry Regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit that hailed mostly from Puerto Rico, inspires pride for their dogged combat in the Korean War in the early 1950s. The 65th is credited with participation in nine campaigns, and its members have at least 10 Distinguished Service Cross awards, 256 Silver Stars and 596 Bronze Stars. More than 750 Puerto Ricans lost their lives in Korea.
Code Talkers
American Indians were instrumental in ending world wars as communication specialists who used their native language to send secret messages on the battlefield. At least 14 native nations served including the Navajo (or Diné), Cherokee and Comanche in the Pacific theater during World War II, and the Choctaw Telephone Squad during WWI.
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen were the first black flying unit of the US Army Air Forces during WWII. The 99th Pursuit Squadron was the first unit that eventually joined three more squadrons in 1944 making up the 32nd Fighter Group who fought in the European theatre and was the most successful and most-decorated escort groups. 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and
won more than 850 medals.
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”