The Connecticut Trolley Museum (CTM) will hold a ceremony to dedicate their first ever Mobile Wheelchair Lift on Thursday, June 29th at 10:30am.
The lift will allow the Museum to offer access to their operating trolleys for visitors with mobility issues. The Wheelchair Lift will be used for visitors in wheelchairs or visitors who have a challenging time stepping up into the trolley.
The mobile wheelchair lift was custom made for the Museum by Adaptive Engineering, Inc. whose list of customers include Amtrack; New Jersey Transit; the MBTA (Mass.); and numerous historic rail operators including the Strasburg Railroad, Napa Valley Wine Tours, Rocky Mountain Rail Tours and the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.
The mobile wheelchair lift was funded with the support of the Cigna Foundation and by two Donor Advised funds at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving – The Vernon and Edith Roosa Family Foundation and Anonymous Fund No. 38.
According to the Museum’s Executive Director Gina Maria Alimberti, “We are excited to be able to provide this new service which is one of the many improvements and activities at the Museum that we have been undertaking to better serve our current visitors and to attract many more new ones.
About Connecticut Trolley Museum
The Connecticut Electric Railway Association, Inc. is the owner and operator of the Connecticut Trolley Museum. Founded in October 1940, it is the nation’s oldest incorporated organization dedicated to the preservation of the trolley era. The organization is led by a board of directors elected by the membership.
All major buildings and the museum’s center of operations are located on a 17-acre facility adjacent to State Route 140 in East Windsor. The right of way is a 3.2-mile portion of the Rockville branch of the Hartford & Springfield Street Railway Company.
The Connecticut Trolley Museum has over seventy pieces of rail equipment dating back to 1869. During your visit, you can see historic passenger and freight trolley cars, interurban cars, elevated railway cars, passenger and freight railroad cars, service cars, locomotives, and a variety of other equipment from railways around Connecticut. You will also find examples from Brooklyn, Boston, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Springfield, Lynchburg, Montreal, and even Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
For more about CTM please visit https://www.ct-trolley.org/
Or Call 860-627-6540 or email, galimberti@ct-trolley.org
Mystic Dead!
In 2018 a group of musicians got together for a once a month Dead night at the Captain Daniel Packer inn in Mystic,CT. It turned out to be a seriously good time that translated to more shows, more fun and Mystic Dead was born.
Deep dives into all things Grateful Dead coupled by the freedom to remain true to their own creative individuality has been and will always be the mantra of all 6 members of Mystic Dead.
Doors 8:00pm
Show 9:00pm
Tix $20 advance/$25 Day of
Asnuntuck Community College ENROLL IN A DAY: Get ready for the fall semester with our “Enroll In A Day” event on Saturday, July 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees can meet with an advisor, finalize their schedules, and register for classes!
For more info please visit http://asnuntuck.edu
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Reverend Horton Heat with Special Guest The Delta Bombers
REVEREND HORTON HEAT
Loaded guns, space heaters, and big skies. Welcome to the lethal littered landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. True to his high evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for getting to tag along.
Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative experience. Flames come off the guitars. Heat singes your skin. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Jim be-
comes a slicked-back 1950?s rock & roll shaman channeling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the Stand-Up Bass. And then there are the “Heatettes”. Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts
and cowboy boots slamming the night away. It’s like being magically transported into a Teen Exploitation picture from the 1950?s that’s currently taking place in the future.
Listening to the REVEREND HORTON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. The Reverend’s commandants are simple.
And no band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives truer than the Reverend Horton Heat. These “itinerant preachers” actually practice what they preach. They live their lives by the Gospel of Rock & Roll.
THE DELTA BOMBERS
Formed in 2008 by four teenagers looking for a good time and a release of their rockabilly sensibilities the Bombers’ have grown end over end since then in more ways than one. Their humble beginnings have now grown the Las Vegas outfit into world leading roots Rock n’ Rollers clandestine and ready for any stage at any time. Not shy ofa live show their performances, now legendary the world over, as is their prolific singer song-writer front man Chris Moinichen. The strike team behind his howling vocals is Andrew Himmler on Guitar, Gregorio Garcia on Stand-Up Bass & PJ Franco on drums. The Delta Bombers exist only to continue what they started: A worldwide Rock and Roll revolution.
Doors 7:00pm
Show 8:00pm
1st Annual Summer House Party!
