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5 Years Later: Covid-19 Community Experience Survey



The Newtown Historical Society invites you to participate in creating a historical record of Newtown’s local experience dealing with the COVID-19 global pandemic five years after it began. Your contributions will be archived with those of other Newtowners and accessed in the future by scholars, townspeople, students and others who study and look back on this historic time in our modern life.

We were all touched by COVID-19 in very different and personal ways. Children and parents, seniors and students, merchants, highly educated professionals...all creatively finding new ways to work and play safely. Every kind of individual and family has been forced to adopt new habits almost overnight.

Much of the story of COVID-19 will be about hardship and difficulty, but not all. A complete record should reflect new work requirements and adaptations, pastimes, family time, entertainment, steps to protect from the virus, changes in the household and other personal observations describing how our lives have been affected by the pandemic.

Please join us in updating our archive that chronicled our shared experience with COVID-19 five years later. Your contribution, however large or small, is historically significant and will provide a rare opportunity to touch the future.

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June Open House


June 22nd, 2025
12:00 - 4:00 pm
Matthew Curtiss House
44 Main Street

Please join us on Sunday, June 22nd for our last Open House until Fall!


Newtown Historical Society Tag Sale


June 28th & June 29th, 2025
10:00 - 2:30 pm
Matthew Curtiss House
44 Main Street

Members of the Newtown Historical Society will be holding their Annual Tag Sale on Saturday June 28th and Sunday June 29th on the grounds of the Matthew Curtiss House. The sale will run from 10-2:30 both days. This is the first time that the sale will also run on Sunday. The funds raised at this event will Items for sale will include furniture, small household items, appliances, tools, books, home décor, toys and other items donated by members and the community. Donations will be accepted at the Curtiss House, 44 Main Street, Newtown on Friday, June 27 th from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. No clothing or soft goods please. Please only drop off items you would consider buying. Contact Patti Clark at willomoor@att.net to arrange for larger item drop-offs.


Ezra Around Town


Beginning January 2025

Introducing Ezra the Rooster. Follow our "Ezra Around Town" posts on Facebook or Instagram. Ezra the Rooster, named for our first unofficial Town Historian, Ezra Johnson, will be starting his travels around Newtown in January.  He'll be visiting locations with a historical significance, but some of the lesser known locations to most Newtowners. Be sure to like our pages in order to receive updates of his travels.

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