On April 3 in the Slater Auditorium at Norwich Free Academy, the Norwich Historical Society had its yearly meeting. It considered the year productive and planned future events and programs.
Regan Miner, the society's group consultant, stated that a few projects have sprouted in the previous months. The Norwich Heritage & Regional Visitors' Center will open this summer, the historical trails are still popular, and the Discover Norwich exhibit was recently built. The exhibit includes panels of the town's history. The new trails are Miner's favorite. He mostly enjoys the Benedict Arnold trail and the Emancipation Trail, which is about the abolitionists of the area.
Plans for the coming year include implementing Norwich history into Uncas Elementary School classrooms and keeping the ball rolling on trail walks, and the William B. Stanley lectures every second Saturday of the month. The group hopes to restart the wreath-laying ceremony for Samuel Huntington, the former Continental Congress President who signed the Declaration of Independence.
The lectures and exhibits on Benedict Arnold, a native of Norwich, have connected museums in New England and helped create synergy between them. According to Sonya Mis, the treasurer, the society has the funds to back up its ideas.
The Norwich Historical Society may want to update its Brochures to include all this, and could add pictures of the trails and exhibits added.
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