Coming SNEC Events

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Spring Meeting and Tour: Saturday, May 17

What:

AM Thomas J. Dodd Research Center: CT. Industrial History Archives

PM Gurleyville Grist Mill Tour; Mansville Hollow Dam Tour

Registration: Please register with William Burt by Monday, May 12, 2008.

Best: burt.william@verizon.net; or (day) 781-235-8908 or (night, even late) at 781-235-9194.

Schedule:

Meet 8:45 Dodd Center. Coffee, pastries, fruit provided

Tour 9:00 Dodd Center Tour w/ Laura Katz Smith C. A.

Dodd Research Center 405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205 Storrs, CT

Featured material will be archives from the CHPC, Connecticut business collections, and railroad collections. (Directions below.) Photos OK.

Lunch 11:30 At student center food courts nearby or Storrs

Tour 1:00 Meet at Gurleyville Gristmill 2 miles east of campus

Tour 2:30 Mansville Hollow Dam 5 miles SE of campus

Gurleyville tour will be led by Bruce Clouette, an industrial historian; the Manville Hollow Dam manager will present during the dam tour.

Some walking over uneven surfaces may be required.

Where:

Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, 405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205

Storrs, CT, Univ. Connecticut Campus

(Campus map at: www.uconn.edu/campuses/pdf/wholemap/pdf Index: DODD at E7)

This map is tricky with its not too useful westerly perspective.

Download complete info and directions here.