Saving Connecticut's Old State House - Petition to Sign, Please
"The oldest State House in America is now closed to the public amid Connecticut’s budget problems. In addition, millions of dollars worth of artwork could be removed from the building." Google - WNPR link
Please click and sign the petition to save this wonderful site from closure.
Connecticut's Old State House with a golden statue of JUSTICE atop - needs some herself!
UPDATE August 2016
"The oldest State House in America is now closed to the public amid Connecticut’s budget problems. In addition, millions of dollars worth of artwork could be removed from the building." Google - WNPR link
Please click and sign the petition to save this wonderful site from closure.
July 28, 2016 - Sign the linked petition here BECAUSE:
today's paper tells that the artifacts are being removed from the recently closed down site to protect them better at the Atheneum and the Connecticut Historical Society. Sad news but good news for their safety. This move is said to be temporary as new leadership hopes to do a LOT better job of keeping the key historic site self-supporting. LIARS - that building should be done like Sturbridge Village, since it's unique funnctionality in Colonial Days absolutely Dazzles but NO ONE has been promoting it AT ALL. I think they mean to kill her.
IN JUNE 2016, while closing down my computer for the night, the breaking news alert notification kept me on a new job till late. Whyyyyy just at Independence Day , would my beloved homestate close this icon site, which has only recently been renovated ? The golden statue of JUSTICE, symbolically, is barely visible in this official photo, though her new gold paints normally gleam proudly in the sun and brighten a rainy day. Funding and cutbacks were cited as the reason, but not very convincing. The Petition lists ways to fix.
Please click and sign the petition to save this wonderful site from closure.
This site WAS Connecticut's capitol, till the larger one was built a century or so later. It stood and served all life in the area and in early America. And with not much else around, one block from the Connecticut River, the Old State House was the nearest to the river life line in those days. Rules were made and important history to all of America - not just Connecticut- happened there and the building is used daily today. Not profitably enough, but that's easy to fix.
This video will tell you more - click here for it.
Personally, I developed just a silly love for "OSH" as she is called - when I first visited Hartford back to my home state, after 20 years in the big world, it was like seeing a lot of it for the first time, and often seeing old sites with new eyes. And especially OSH.
Suddenly I saw her in a personified light: My paternal Grandmother was alive again, a tiny dolly , surrounded by her many tall children and grandchildren! The anachronism she presents, in the landscape, making her just that more wonderful, sitting pat, on that spot, among companions two centuries newer. She is my Grammy and I simply felt too personally upset by the news to NOT act.
Old State House is a genial Happy Cat on a carpet before a fire, much-loved by her companions.
What on EARTH would make anyone think it is okay to change that? We need her in this world. And why hurt this historic site AT Independence Day, America's Historically Proud Birthday!
The petition has some signatures already and I have done only modest promotion. More to come. Comment here or on the petition. Those with power to change the closure will be getting updates - it is part of the petition's machinery. Make it count!
elle