Farmington Room

Name: Onigiri Demonstration
Start: 2022-02-26T14:30:00-05:00
End: 2022-02-26T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Main Library

About the Farmington Room

The Farmington Room is the library’s local history and genealogy collection. Included in the collection are histories of Farmington and other area towns (particularly our daughter towns), genealogies of major Farmington families, and some town archives.

Upcoming History & Cultural Events

Author Talk: Jon Picoult (virtual)

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Main Library

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Main Library

Room: Virtual

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Lecture, History, & Culture

Registration Required

Seats Remaining: 93

Event Details:

If you’re aspiring to satisfy your customers, then you’re aspiring to mediocrity. That’s the fascinating premise of “From Impressed to Obsessed: 12 Principles for Turning Customers and Employees into Lifelong Fans” – a new book by Jon Picoult, who...

Disclaimer(s)

If you have special needs to attend this program, please contact the library in advance.

Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (Virtual)

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Main Library

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Main Library

Room: Virtual

Age Group: Adults, Teens

Program Type: Lecture, History, & Culture, Music, Dance, & Film

Registration Required

Seats Remaining: 100

Event Details:

The Farmington Libraries invite you to a special presentation by renowned flautist Galen Abdur-Razzaq. Galen will talk about the history of jazz, its historical significance and its most influential contributors. Galen will chronicle jazz music from ...

Disclaimer(s)

If you have special needs to attend this program, please contact the library in advance.

Onigiri Demonstration

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Main Library

Registration

Library Branch: Main Library

Room: Jay Johnston Community Room

Age Group: All Ages, Adults, Teens

Program Type: Lecture, History, & Culture

Registration Required

Seats Remaining: 20

Event Details:

The Japan Society of Greater Hartford will hold an onigiri cooking demonstration. Attendees will get to make and sample this simple yet delicious Japanese dish and have a chance to ask questions and get ideas for variations. Onigiri (Rice ba...

Disclaimer(s)

If you have special needs to attend this program, please contact the library in advance.

Unionville's Dam History

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Main Library

Registration

Library Branch: Main Library

Room: Jay Johnston Community Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Lecture, History, & Culture

Registration Required

Seats Remaining: 70

Event Details:

Please join Unionville native, Alan Perrie, for a talk on the history of Unionville’s dams and how they influenced the growth of Unionville. The 4 dams that shaped Unionville’s history were mostly erase...

Disclaimer(s)

If you have special needs to attend this program, please contact the library in advance.

Farmington Room Collections

Farmington Homes

Oral History Project

Project Paideia Resources

History & Genealogy Resources

Ancestry

Find birth, death, and census records.

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Connecticut Digital Archive

The CTDA is part of the Digital Preservation Repository Program at the University of Connecticut.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Farmington Library card required.

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Enslaved

A public free databases recording 500,000 named captive people, designed by data scientists at Michigan State University and distinguished historians and researchers.

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Farmington Valley Herald

Now access the Farmington Valley Herald from home! Access our digital archives of the Farmington Valley Herald. Browse by title, year, or key words to find articles and content from this historic publication.

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Historic Hartford Courant

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time (1764-1922).

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ResearchIT CT - Connecticut State Library

Includes: resources for students, e-reference books, newspapers, magazine and journal articles, health and science resources, genealogy resources and much more…

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Request Information

To request information about the Farmington Room’s collections, please contact the library.

By Phone: (860) 673-6791

By E-mail: flref@farmingtonlibraries.org

By Mail:

The Farmington Libraries
Attn: Information Services
6 Monteith Drive
Farmington, CT 06032

Please supply a mailing address when requesting photocopies or extensive information. Genealogical queries are best handled by email or letter. Please note that extensive reference and genealogical queries are subject to a $25 per hour fee.

Main Library

Barney Library

Farmington Room

About the Farmington Room

History & Genealogy Resources

Ancestry

Connecticut Digital Archive

Encyclopedia Britannica

Enslaved

Farmington Valley Herald

Historic Hartford Courant

ResearchIT CT - Connecticut State Library

Request Information