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Events
Events & activities being organized to date include:
(Click on the event for details)- April 11- May 1: Pop-Up exhibit of featured items from the Yale Beinecke Library archives — maps, photos, letters, etc. April 11- May 1, 2022
- Monday, April 11: A family-oriented kick-off/birthday party on Monday, April 11 at 6pm at the Mitchell Library
- Thursday, May 5: A lecture by Yale History Professor Jay Gitlin on Thursday, May 5 at the NH Museum
- Saturday, May 7: A public walking tour of Edgewood Park on Saturday, May 7 at 4pm
- Saturday, May 7: An ongoing temporary, movable exhibition including reproductions of DGM’s maps of NH, Westville, vintage photographs of parks, the farm, interiors of the homestead & early parks, to be used at the various public events & activities
- Saturday, June 11: A public walking tour of East Rock Park on Saturday, June 11 at noon
- Date TBD: A public architectural tour of the Forest Road farmstead area, to include walks around four former structures from the Edgewood farm: the main Mitchell homestead, the farm superintendent’s cottage, the former barn and a former stable, all now residences (Date TBD)
- Date TBD: An informal, in-person talk about DGM and his Edgewood Farm at the Yale Beinecke Library talk series
- Date TBD: Performances by A Broken Umbrella Theater
Stay tuned for more info about a staged reading and an outdoor screening of the “iMarvel” theatrical performance by Broken Umbrella Theater, and a public “interview” with Donald Grant Mitchell.
(In the meantime, click this link to a video of prerecorded video of A Broken Umbrella Theater’s performance of “iMarvel”– from some years ago with a great intro by both Colin Caplan and Rachel Alderman.) - Date TBD: Creation of a participatory public art/mural in Westville
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Walking Tour and Discussion
Architectural/Historical Walking Tour and Discussion: Donald Grant Mitchell and his Edgewood Farm Join the New Haven Preservation Trust for a walking tour of the exterior of the four buildings–now all residences–from DGM’s farm in the Forest Road/Edgewood Way area of Westville and learn more about Mitchell’s search for the perfect farm, his farm design and […]
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Saturday, May 14
Westville ArtwalkDonald Grant Mitchell Exhibit Artwalk is a free, annual, community-based arts festival that spans three blocks in historic Westville Village and Edgewood Park, New Haven. Live music, art exhibitions and demonstrations, interactive art-making for kids and adults, theater performances, walking tours, and a 30+ vendor Artist & Artisan Market — a superbly fun day […]
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April 11 – May 1
A pop-up display on the mezzanine of some items from the special collections at Yale: Photographs, interiors of Edgewood, undated, photographer not noted. Poem: On the 80th birthday of Donald Grant Mitchell, by Waldo H. Dunn, April 12, 1902. Photograph of Donald Grant Mitchell, 1903, photographer not noted. Pictures of Edgewood, Donald Grant Mitchell, 1869. […]
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Thursday, May 5 Lecture
The New Haven Museum will host a virtual lecture during Preservation Month: “The Suburb Within: Donald Grant Mitchell, Edgewood and the Greening of New Haven” with historian Jay Gitlin. Learn more.
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Saturday, May 14, Walking Tour
Walking Tour: Donald Grant Mitchell and Edgewood Park Learn More.
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Saturday, June 11, Talk & Walk
Talk & Walk with Channing Harris at East Rock Park, hosted by the Friends of East Rock Park. Learn more.