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Eversource Kill A Watt Kit: If you want to measure your energy use, we have a kit available for checkout!
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Poetry Corner
Chaplin's new and Second Poet Laureate is Victoria Northrop! Stay tuned for upcoming readings and poetry events. Victoria also happens to be daughter of Chaplin's First Poet Laureate, Adelaide Northrop. Read her poem Idylls of the Town. Adelaide also wrote a poem to introduce the reenactment of the first Chaplin town meeting, The Meeting, and a poem for the annual Tree Lighting, Evergreen.
Parish Hill Poets
On March , 2024, Dr. Susan Powers, Scotland, Connecticut's Inaugural Poet Laureate, joined forces with Mrs. Michelle Salvas at Parish Hill High School. The two teachers, former colleagues at Woodstock Academy, implemented a poetry project for the juniors in Mrs. Salvas' classes. Read the poems representative of the creative and delightful work produced by these imaginative students.
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ResearchIT CT
Resources for Connecticut Residents: newspapers, magazines, databases, genealogy, and much more.
