Carl Walter Wins Award for Canal Maps

Sarah Hart, Carl Walter and Laura Riley at the CLHO Award Luncheon

The Simsbury Free Library is pleased to announce that the Connecticut League of History Organizations (CLHO) awarded Carl Walter an Individual Achievement Award of Merit for his …

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Bibi Gaston will be back in June!

Bibi Gaston will be back at the Simsbury Free Library on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 to discuss her new book, Gifford Pinchot and the First Foresters: The Untold Story of the Brave Men and Women Who Launched the American Conversation …

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Farmington Canal Maps Published

Simsbury Canal Maps

In partnership with canal expert Carl E. Walter, the Simsbury Free Library (SFL) has just published nine maps of the Farmington Canal. The map series includes one for each of the towns through which the canal once ran: New Haven, …

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Book of World War I letters written by Simsbury native

WWI postcard

Thank you so much to Joe Hall (of Hall’s Farm on Terry’s Plain) for sharing his great uncle’s World War I letters and allowing us to scan them. If you are a Simsbury or WWI history buff, stop in and …

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