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Stepping Into the Shade is a love story about the people who toiled in the soil on Connecticut tobacco farms and made a lasting impact on our communities.
Join host and entertainment personality, June Archer, as he takes a journey of exploration to learn about the dynamic history of the tobacco farms in Connecticut and how the people who came to work on the farms left a lasting impression on society, culture and Civil Rights. Through a combination of historian and first-persons accounts, this film relates the story of Connecticut tobacco farming and the people who came to toil in the soil and went on to build change in society. To learn more about the project, visit the project's website: https://www.steppingintotheshade.com/
EVENT TYPE: | Media | Civic Engagement |
TAGS: | tobaccofarming | migration | migrantworkers | immigration | cthistory |
The Albany Branch Library endeavors daily to maintain its role as one of Albany Avenue’s most vital resources. The Albany Branch was established in 1926. It was first located in the Northwest School and then in rented quarters at 1239 Albany Avenue. The branch’s present location at 1250 Albany Avenue opened in February 1950 in a building designed by H. Sage Goodwin. In 2011 a new 8,000 square foot facility on the corner of Albany and Blue Hills Avenues replaced the sixty-one-year-old structure.
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