This year's Big Read events at Hartford Public Library are all virtual, centered around the historical novel "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez.
This is the story of two neighboring Hartford suburbs and how they came, throughout the 20th century, to represent an example of America’s persistent racial segregation.
HartBeat Ensemble has received $15,000 through a new New England Foundation for the Arts program, to create a new play based on the life of Hartford-based actress Gwendolyn Reed.