Lecture will be offered at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm.
Location: Playhouse on Park
Drawing from Petersen family archives and new research, Chuck Coursey, host and producer of West Hartford’s history podcast Troutbrook Tales, and Mary Donohue, West Hartford Town Historian, share the history of Danish immigrant Andrew C. Petersen’s dairy empire. The lecture will be held in the former milk delivery truck garage, now the Playhouse on Park Theater. And ice cream is included courtesy of the A.C. Petersen Restaurant next door!
Lecture length: 1 hour
Admission: $15* per person.
*Plus $3.50 service fee
100% of proceeds benefit Playhouse on Park! Co-Sponsored by The Noah Webster House
MARY DONOHUE, West Hartford Historian
Donohue is an award-winning author, architectural historian, and preservationist. She is the executive producer and host of Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history.