The room was filled with mingling and reminiscing as community members gathered to hear Dixwell neighborhood stories from 1860 to 1970, and to celebrate the giants who were instrumental to shaping their lives.
Around 50 people gathered at ConnCAT’s headquarters at 4 Science Park on a recent Saturday evening to listen to seven New Haveners recount those stories of the Dixwell neighborhood at an event called Forgotten Pioneers: Ancestral Family Stories of Dixwell.
But first, there was a reception. Guests mingled and reminisced as they broke bread while perusing works of art made by youth, depicting long-gone businesses and clubs where iconic musicians performed for the then-majority-Black community…