All Members' Meetings and other programs are open to the public with a suggested donation of $5. All meetings are held at the Mystic Congregational Church's hall on Broadway Street, Mystic, unless otherwise noted, on the fourth Wednesday of the month, at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact MRHS at info@mystichistory.org or call 860-536-4779 during office hours.
Unless otherwise noted all meetings are in the Parish Hall of the Mystic Congregational Church.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
Susan McGee Bailey - Georgie Fulton |
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
Annual meeting & Bettye Noyes - Bluff Point to Latimer Point |
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
The Charles W. Morgan Sails Again |
Georgiana Fulton: An Unsung Tour de Force
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usan McGee Bailey met her first ‘best friend’ at the age of nine and was new to the area: Miss Georgiana Fulton’s house was on the way to the school bus stop and Susan passed her ramshackle cottage and flourishing gardens daily. The flowers sparked a conversation that ignited a friendship & discussions that continued beyond school years and the scope of Mystic. Georgiana Fulton (1869 - 1967), was an independent thinker, artist, and the last teacher in the one room schoolhouse on Mason’s Island.Having recently begun to further research Miss Fulton’s life and career, Susan Bailey will talk about the results as well as the many stories Miss Fulton shared with her as a child. The stories reveal much about Mason’s Island in the 1920s and ‘30s as well as the early years of the Mystic Art Association and tantalizing aspects of Miss Fulton’s life before she came to Connecticut, including her origins in Shreveport, LA and her years in Paris, France before World War I.
Susan McGee Bailey received a BA in History from Wellesley College, an MA and Ph.D from the University of Michigan and held a post doctoral fellowship in Public Health from Johns Hopkins.