Main Street Stroll

Various locations on Main Street, Middletown FREE!

Stroll between Wesleyan’s campus and Middletown’s Main Street to enjoy two festive events in one day.
A family-friendly celebration of Middletown’s Main Street and the new Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore, the Main Street Stroll will feature music, street performers, specialty workshops, free admission at Kidcity Children’s Museum, and much more from 10am to 4pm.
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Also: the Preservation March conducted by Company G of the 14th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry is on Saturday, September 9 at 10 am starting in front of the Mansfield House. Speakers include Professor Matthew Warshauer of Central Connecticut State University and the author of Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival and John Banks, the author of Connecticut Yankees at Antietam. The talks will occur throughout the march, ending with a firing salute at the grave of General Mansfield in Indian Hill Cemetery. If you are unable to attend, you may still make a pledge by sending it to the Historical Society at 151 Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457.

The General Mansfield House will also have a special opening from 1 to 4 pm on Saturday, September 9 as part of the Main Street Stroll. Docents will be here to take you through our exhibit, A Vanished Port: Middletown & the Caribbean, 1750-1824.