VIRTUAL LECTURE

Thursday, April 18, 2pm

The Great Windham Frog Fight: How a Legend Came to Define a Town

Jamie Eves, Senior Curator, the Mill Museum

$12 (Members 10% discount)

During the French and Indian War, an event occurred in Windham, CT, that became known as the Windham Frog Fight, or the Battle of the Frogs. The event was soon exaggerated for political purposes, and by the mid-1800s several versions had entered folklore. As time wore on, the people of Windham took the bullfrog as their mascot and symbol, and today "the art of the frog" can be found throughout the town -- most notably as (much) larger than life statues created by the sculptor Leo Jensen that guard the entrances to Windham's celebrated Frog Bridge.

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