Connecticut's Old State House

Celebrate these champions of democracy. Tickets at: ctdemocracycenter.org

🏅 Patricia Russo, Executive Director, The Campaign School at Yale University
🏅Eversource Energy, for the work of its Pro-Equity Advisory Team
🏅JoAnn H. Price, Co-Founder, Fairview Capital Partners

🌟Meet JoAnn Price! Join us March 12 at CT’s Old State House as she accepts the CTDC's Mary C. Gawlicki Philanthropic Leader Award. Learn more about why she works hard to increase capital access for underrepresented investment fund managers 🎟️ Get tickets: ctdemocracycenter.org #CTDCAwards

🌟Meet Theresa Hopkins-Staten! Join us March 12 at CT’s Old State House as she accepts the CTDC's Business Leadership Award for @eversource.bsky.social's Pro-Equity Advisory Team. Discover how Equity Fundamentals Training empowers Eversource employees. 🎟️ Get tickets: ctdemocracycenter.org

Have you met Patricia Russo? 🌟 Join us March 12 at CT’s Old State House as she receives the Community Leader Award at the CT Democracy Center Awards. Discover what drives her work to influence women to run for elected office worldwide. 🎟️ Get tickets: ctdemocracycenter.org

🎉 Champions of Democracy to be honored.
The Connecticut Democracy Center announces the 2026 CTDC Awards, celebrating leaders strengthening democracy through service, equity, and civic engagement.
📍 March 12, 2026 | CT Old State House
🔗 ctdemocracycenter.org #CTDCAwards

Connecticut's new Kid Governor is inaugurated! More than 150 people attended a ceremony Friday in which Tessa Hallinan was inaugurated as Connecticut's Kid Governor.

Thank you Mother Nature for holding off on the snow until after the @ctdemocracycenter.bsky.social inauguration of Connecticut's Kid Governor and cabinet
@ctoldstatehouse.bsky.social
. #ctkidgovernor #ctoldstatehouse #ctdemocracycenter #kidgovernor
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🎤🎵See you soon? Get a First Night HTFD pin at firstnighthartford.org and visit CT's Old State House from 2-5:45 pm for family fun including Hamilton Karaoke, tours, Revolutionary War costume dress-up, a scavenger hunt, and crafts with Night Fall.🎉 #ctoldstatehouse

🎤🎵Got plans for New Year's? Get a First Night HTFD pin at firstnighthartford.org and visit CT's Old State House from 2-5:45 pm for family fun including Hamilton Karaoke, tours, Revolutionary War costume dress-up, a scavenger hunt, and crafts with Night Fall.🎉 #ctoldstatehouse

🎉🎤CT's Old State House will re-open Fri., Dec. 26 at 12 pm. Stop by for First Night Hartford on Dec. 31 from 2 - 5:45 pm. Enjoy Hamilton Karaoke, museum tours, dressing-up in Revolutionary War costumes, and crafting with Night Fall. Purchase pins at firstnighthartford.org. 🎆

🎤🎵Get your First Night Hartford pin at firstnighthartford.org and join us for Hamilton Karaoke. Enjoy a Museum tour, make a tricorn hat, dress up in Revolutionary War costumes, go on a scavenger hunt, & craft with the team from Night Fall before fireworks at Bushnell Park at 6 pm.🎉 #ctoldstatehouse

🎤🎵Gather your friends and fans and head to CT’s Old State House for “Hamilton Karaoke” from 2 -5:45 pm. Get your First Night Hartford pin at firstnighthartford.org and come belt out a tune from the Broadway musical in our historic Courtroom. Stay for tours and fun family activities!

🎆 Celebrate First Night Hartford by stepping back in time!
CT’s Old State House kicks off America’s 250th with Revolutionary War crafts, scavenger hunts & Hamilton karaoke.
🕑 2–5:45 PM | 📍 800 Main St
🎟️ First Night pin required

Dennis House reporting...only one more day until the Connecticut Democracy Center reveals results of the 2026 Election for Connecticut's Kid Governor. Tune in to @ctkidgovernor to watch the announcement LIVE on Facebook and YouTube! #CTKidGovernor #CTDemocracyCenter

Thursday is the day! Tune in to get the results of Connecticut's 2026 Kid Governor election at 9:30am on the Connecticut's Kid Governor Facebook page and YouTube channel!

#CTKGStatewideElection #CTKidGovernor2026 #CTKGvotes2025 #civics #civiceducation

🏆👏Congrats to Natalie Townsend, of Nevaeh's Cake Ceations, LLC in Hartford, winner of CT’s Old State House’s 2025 Election Cake Bake Off! Celebrity judges including @CTSotS Stephanie Thomas and authors Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald and guests made it official! #CTOSH

In honor of Veterans Day, watch CT Network's coverage of the Marine Corp League of CT's ceremony honoring the 250th birthday of the Marine Corps here ct-n.com/ctnplayer.as.... This event included state and military leaders and a special video tribute. #CTNetwork #CTVeterans

Let us eat cake! Come to CT's Old State House on Saturday for our 4th Annual Election Cake Bake Off at 12 noon. Celebrity judges include🗳️Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas and
🖊️📖 authors Keith Stavely & Kathleen Fitzgerald. Admission is free. RSVP here: bit.ly/CakeOff2025. #CTOldStateHouse

Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas stands at a table with her colleagues to assembling ballot boxes, ballots, pencil and paperwork that goes into voting kits. The kits will me mailed to schools participating in the upcoming election for Connecticut's Kid Governor

Brian Cofrancesco, Director of the Kid Governor program stands with Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas holding up a table top voting booth that folds out to give 5th graders voting in elections for Connecticut's Kid Governor privacy when they vote.

🏛️SOTS Stephanie Thomas @ctsots and her team stopped by to help Brian Cofrancesco, Director of Kid Governor® prepare 🗳️voting kits. These kits will go to schools across the state participating in the upcoming election of CT's Kid Governor. #CTKG #CTKidGovernor #ctdemocracycenter

Ghostly encounters at Connecticut's Old State House The Old State House in Hartford, with its 230-year history, is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former museum curator.

Find out for yourself if CT's Old State House is haunted by stopping by for a visit this Saturday for our Election Cake Bake Off at 12 noon!

🥮Let them eat cake CAKE! Did you know in colonial times, Election Day included parties, parades, and CAKE? CT’s Old State House pays tribute with some sweet competition at the 4th Annual Election Cake Bake Off. 🍴Come TASTE confections created by CT bakers and vote! FREE Admission!

Let them eat cake CAKE! Did you know in colonial times, Election Day included parties, parades, and CAKE? CT’s Old State House pays tribute with some sweet competition at the 4th Annual Election Cake Bake Off. Come TASTE confections created by CT bakers and vote! FREE Admission!

🔮 Step into history this Sat, Oct 25!
✨ 10:30 am: Witchcraft Trials Tour at Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground
✨ 2:00 pm: Meet the Parsons: Witchcraft in Early Springfield at CT’s Old State House — FREE lecture!
👉 RSVP: ct-dc.org/qr.asp?q=WitchcraftPanicOCT2025
Explore, lunch & shop on Pratt Street.

Program directors Rebecca Taber and Brian Cofrancesco at the CT Council for the Social Studies Conference representing CT Democracy Center's innovative civic education programming at CT’s Old State House -- CT History Day, Kid Governor®, We The People, & Project Citizen. #ctdc

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🎉Celebrate Rochambeau Day at 11 am this Sat., Oct. 18, at CT’s Old State House. Watch a Civil War–era musket fire by the Governor’s Foot Guard—honoring the 1780 Washington–Rochambeau alliance that helped win the Revolutionary War. #ctoldstatehouse

Do your baking skills take the cake? Register to compete in the 4th Annual Election Cake Bake Off on Sat., Nov. 1. Create a delicious flavor profile and decorate to fit the theme of "American Democracy, Voting & Elections". Space is limited. For info click here: ct-dc.org/qr.asp?q=CTO...

Boom! 💥 Celebrate Rochambeau Day this Sat., Oct. 18, 11am at CT’s Old State House. Watch a Civil War–era cannon fire with the Governor’s Foot Guard—honoring the 1780 Washington–Rochambeau alliance that helped win the Revolution. #ctoldstatehouse #firstgovernorsfootguard

We live in a moment marked by uncertainty and change - social, political, and educational. But here's the truth: when students understand history, they better understand how to change the future. Support Connecticut History Day. Donate here: www.historydayct.org/shop-support...

🏆Know an exceptional individual who is civically engaged and committed to public service in gov't, business, and our schools? 📩 Visit ctdemocracycenter.org for info and submit your nomination the 2026 CT Democracy Center Awards! #CTDCAwards

🔮 Step into history on Sat, Oct 25!
✨ 10:30 am: Witchcraft Trials Tour at Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground. Tickets at
ancientburyingground.com
✨ 2:00 pm: Meet the Parsons: Witchcraft in Early Springfield at CT’s Old State House — FREE lecture!
👉 RSVP: ct-dc.org/qr.asp?q=WitchcraftPanicOCT2025