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"Five Days in Madison"

“Five Days in Madison”

The 1785 Allis-Bushnell House located at 853 Boston Post Road, Madison, will open its doors to the public on Saturday, June 9, to celebrate Connecticut Open House Day 2012, a statewide history event. The downstairs rooms in the house have been transformed into scenic “sets” where guides will greet visitors and tell the stories of five historic days in the history of Madison.

Guests will travel in time to visit the home of Abigail Meigs in 1770 where she has invited friends to join her for a tea and spinning party where the participants drink only herbal tea and work their spinning wheels to protest importation taxes on British goods including tea and fabrics. Next, groups will enter the home of Frederick Lee in May 1836 where a party is in progress celebrating the separation of the town of Madison from Guilford. The tour continues to the year 1839 to the home of Nathan and Chloe Bushnell where an Abolitionist meeting is taking place. Next, visitors step into the parlor of the Ely family where fourteen-year-old Emily wrote a letter to her sister in 1861 regarding the Civil War draft in Madison. The final stop on the tour is in the 1920 Tea Room of Susan Josephine Hart on the day the women of Madison learn they have been given the right to vote.

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The free one-hour tours will begin every twenty minutes starting at 11:00 AM. The last tour will begin at 3:00 PM.  Groups are limited to ten visitors. Guests are invited to stroll around the Allis-Bushnell property and tour the Herb Garden that is maintained by the Madison Garden Club.

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