The University of Hartford has quietly sold one of the most extraordinary collections of American political memorabilia ever assembled a collection one of the city’ s insurance titans spent a lifetime assembling and later donated to the school in the hope that it would be preserved and displayed to the public in perpetuity. Over March 19 and 20, the.
The auction appears to dash whatever hope remained among collectors and academics that Dewitt’s collection could remain in Connecticut, coomplete and as a center of political scholarship and tourism.
“I just feel like we’re in a chaotic situation,” Estelle Freeland of Newington said. “It just doesn’t seem to be ending. It just seems to be going higher and higher.”
Hartford Public Schools is raising concerns about the recent settlement agreement in the school desegregation case of Sheff v. O’Neill. In a virtual meeting.