This season’s last joint program of the South Windsor Historical Society and the Friends of Wood Memorial Library & Museum will be held at Wood Library, 783 Main Street, South Windsor, June 9 at 7 p.m.
Paula Hopewell will present “Abraham Lincoln, Man of Compassion and Connecticut.” A Lincoln scholar, she will examine Lincoln’s compassion and personal tragedies and highlights from his speeches. Her talk includes information on Connecticut’s role in the Civil War and
the influence of Hartford’s Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the Copperhead movement in Connecticut, and 1860 and 1864 Presidential election results for nearby Connecticut towns. As was notably the case in a divided Westchester County, many Connecticut towns voted against Abraham Lincoln in his bid for re-election in 1864.
Hopewell grew up in Northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati. She earned a B.S. in math, and an MBA. After working for ten years in marketing research, she became a homemaker. Hopewell joined the Lincoln Forum, which holds annual meetings in Gettysburg, and is also a member of the Civil War Roundtable of Fairfield County and the Lincoln Group of New York.
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Pre-registration is not required. Program fee is $7, with a $5 fee for members of the Society or Library Friends.
