Wii Wednesdays

Contact Newfield Branch: 203 576-7828

Chess Fridays

Learn to play chess with Suzanne Kachmer and John Farwell. All skill levels welcome.

Co-sponsored by City Lights Gallery.

Contact: Newfield Branch  203 576-7828

Next date: March 30th.

The Underground Railroad

Please join the Newfield Children’s Department in celebration of Black History Month with Pearlye Sams Allen’s interactive Underground Railroad Program.

These Africans resisted. In nearly every conceivable way, they registered their protest against their enslavement. One of the most important ways they resisted was to remove their labor from the reach of their masters. By running away — by “stealing themselves” — they not only deprived their taskmasters of their labor, they escaped the dehumanizing work regime of servitude, and sometimes found new lives in freedom.

For additional information on the Underground Railroad:

• Underground Railroad
  Resource Bank from PBS

• National Geographic Online
  National Geographic presents the Underground Railroad

• Flight to Freedom Game“Flight to Freedom,” allows “players” to experience slavery through the eyes of those who lived it.

• Connecticut Freedom Trail
  The Freedom Trail has been preserved in history,recognizing the importance to Connecticut of numerous sites in the state that are associated with the heritage and movement towards freedom of its African American Citizens.