The "Brass City / Grass Roots" exhibit consisting of 10 colorful panels with historic maps, photographs and oral history interviews, profiles the history of agriculture in Waterbury, CT. The display will be in the UConn Torrington Library from February 13 to March 19. It will then move to the Waterbury campus library where it will stay from March 24 to May 22, finally traveling to the UConn Storrs Dodd Research Center on display from June 1 to August 1, 2015. The public is invited to view this historic exhibit which explores the many ways in which agriculture, local food processing and local food marketing have made their mark in Waterbury over the past 150 years.
Conceived by Brass City Harvest Executive Director, Susan Pronovost, the display is based on a year and a half of research by Dr. Ruth Glasser, an Urban Studies and History faculty member at the University of Connecticut Waterbury Campus, along with UConn students and talented area photographers and mapmakers.
Research for this project was made possible by grants from Connecticut Humanities, the Waterbury Environmental Benefits Fund, and the Connecticut Community Foundation. The project was funded by and was part of Connecticut at Work, a year-long conversation on the past, present and future of work life in Connecticut created by Connecticut Humanities.
For display hours at UConn Torrington library, contact Sheila.lafferty@uconn.edu and for hours at UConn Waterbury library, contact shelley.goldstein@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: rita.quinn@uconn.edu at 860-626-6815