Connecticut In Motion: Transportation, Climate Change and Big History

104 Weston Road,Weston CT 06883

26 March, 2023

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Join author and historian, Richard DeLuca for his new illustrated lecture, “Connecticut in Motion: Transportation, Climate Change and Big History” Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 4:30pm at the Weston History & Culture Center ( Weston Historical Society) Free: Members $5.00: Non-Members “Connecticut in Motion: Transportation, Climate Change and Big History” will cover how transportation has shaped our state over the past four centuries, from stagecoaches to interstate highways, and how that story has led to the environmental crisis we now face that includes a changing climate. Mr. DeLuca will have copies of his latest book Paved Roads & Public Money available for sale. It received the Connecticut Book Award for history from the Connecticut Humanities Council. This event is part of the closing reception for the exhibition, “The Curious Case of Eleven O’clock Road: How Weston Got Its Place Names” which is on view every Thursday and Sunday from 1pm – 4pm now until Sunday, March 26, 2023. Location: The Weston History & Culture Center (Weston Historical Society) is located at 104 Weston Road. Our parking lot is located on High Acre Road. (turn onto High Acre Road from Weston Road, then make a right into our parking lot.) Event takes place in red building adjacent to parking lot. About the Presenter: Richard DeLuca has degrees in Civil Engineering and Transportation Planning and worked as a transportation planner in Connecticut for ten years. In 1978, the author and his wife moved to San Francisco, after which he pursued a career as a writer, focusing on California history. In 1994, the author published a book documenting the historical roots of the social protest that took place in the 1960s. Entitled: We, The People! Bay Area Activism in the 1960s, the book was published by The Borgo Press of San Bernardino, California as part of its series on Great Issues of the Day. He and his wife returned to CT in 1998 and since 2006 he has been at work on a two-volume history of Connecticut transportation from the colonial period to the present. The first volume, Post Roads & Iron Horses, was published by Wesleyan University Press in December of 2011, and covers the history of Connecticut from colonial times through the age of steam. A second volume, entitled Paved Roads & Public Money, focusing on transportation in the twentieth century was published in 2020, and received the Connecticut Book Award from the Humanities Council. The Weston Historical Society D/B/A The Weston History and Culture Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Center would like to thank its annual sponsors: Fairfield County Bank and KMS Team at Compass as well as the Daniel E. Offutt, III Charitable Trust. For more information and how to donate, visit www.WestonCTHistory.org or email: [email protected] or call: 203-226-1804.