Jan 11-20 in Hamden*
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Winter Wonders: MLK Holiday in Hamden
Multiple great opportunities to honor, educate, and celebrate the MLK Holiday here in Hamden and neighboring New Haven. (Click on any image below to link to more details about the event.)
On Friday, Congregation Mishkan Israel hosts its “Annual MLK Interfaith Service” with keynote speaker, Yale Law School Professor, author, lawyer, and CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts.
On Sunday, MLK Birthday Celebration @ Hamden’s Bible Gospel Church. Sponsored by Hamden Black History Committee.
On Monday, join the 54th Annual MLK “Love March” organized by Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church.
On Monday, Beinecke Library at Yale hosts its annual MLK event. Highlights of Beinecke Library collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the African American freedom movement will be on view. You will be able to see an array of materials, many drawn from the library’s James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, that highlight Dr. King’s life, legacy, and impact, and the long civil rights movement in the United States.
On Sunday and Monday, Yale Peabody Museum’s 28th annual MLK Celebration.
On Wednesday January 24th, Yale’s annual MLK commemoration includes special guest Ruby Bridges.
ICYMI:
Winter Wonders: Locally-Owned Fitness Programs
Winter Wonders: Ice Skating & Ice Hockey in Hamden
Upcoming Events:
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(For those unfamiliar with HPL’s Digital Navigators, here is a summary, including several links to media coverage of the program.)
Final weekend for the Hamden holiday tradition at the Eli Whitney Museum:
Hamden History:
Debuting a new feature: “Hamden History”. In the past we have had “Hamden Food in the News” - and that will definitely return soon. This new section will look to highlight fun, interesting, quirky, and inspiring elements of Hamden’s rich history.
In 1961, American hero Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Hamden’s Congregation Mishkan Israel. Rabbi Robert Goldburg was behind the visit, having marched and protested with Dr. King. According to this NHR story, “Goldburg met King when they spent time together in a Southern jail during the early civil rights protests. King was supposed to inaugurate Mishkan Israel’s new synagogue in 1960… but King had been locked up again. So he came a year later, on Oct. 20, 1961.”
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