BOOKS, TAPES and SLIDE PROGRAMS

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BOOKS

• Story and Legend of The Charter Oak Tree
  36 pages, maps, b/w photos, fact-filled.
  $10.00 add $1.50 for p/h, signed. Checks only.
  
  

• Hartford - City of Heritage
  40 pages, 110 b/w photos, filled with Hartford facts, maps, photos and all details seen and learned on our daily Hartford tour.
  $10.00 add $1.50 for p/h, signed. Checks only.
  
  

• Amistad Sites
  (the Lost Eight Months), Underground Railroad and Freedom Trail - Farmington
  24 pages, 35 b/w photos, follows the route of our Amistad bus and walking tour. Filled with history, little-known facts and details.
  $10.00 add $1.50 for p/h, signed. Checks only.

• The New Freedom Schooner Amistad Visits Hartford, Connecticut August 2000
  Discover the NEW freedom schooner Amistad. See the deck, sails, ropes, anchor, wheel, rigging, ship's bell and hand carved golden eagle, lifeboat named for one of the original children plus views from above. 12 pages, 27 b/w photos. A great companion to our other book, Amistad Sites and Underground Railroad in Farmington, CT.
  $8.00 add $1.50 for p/h, signed. Checks only

• Farmington - A Journey of 360 Years
  52 pages, 96 b/w photos, 25 sketches and maps. Detailed history of Farmington since 1640. Colonial architecture, maps, interesting people, ancient graveyards, native Americans, Farmington Canal. Celebrates Farmington's 360th anniversary in 2000 and follows the route of our Farmington and Amistad tours.
  $15.00 add $2.00 for p/h, signed. Checks only.

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You can purchase our books at these following locations:

Mark Twain House Museum Store
351 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, CT

Hill-Stead Museum Gift Shop
35 Mountain Road
Farmington, CT

Millrace Books
40 Mill Lane (just off Garden Street)
Farmington, CT

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Heritage Trails Sightseeing Tours
P. O. Box 138
Farmington, CT 06034-0138

CASSETTE DRIVING OR LISTENING TOURS

• Hartford City Tour
  This is a great way to see and hear all about Hartford from the comfort of your car or living room chair. Follows the route of our daily bus tour. Stops made for photos, museum and house visits.

• Ancient Graveyards Walking Tour - Farmington
  Walk in the footsteps of the town's founders. Noted people, detailed descriptions of gravestone carving between 1685 to late 1800s, ancient methods of early burials. Interesting stories of the people buried here who once walked the same paths you are about too. Recorded live in the graveyards!

• Farmington On Tour
  An interesting way to see the scenic beauty and lush countryside of Farmington, a lovely preserved historic village settled 1640, and all done in the comfort of your car or living room chair. Follows the bus route of our Amistad or Colonial Dinner Tour (no dinner stop). Stops made for photos, house, museum and graveyard visits.

• Underground Railroad and Amistad Sites in Farmington, CT
  A 90-minute driving tour on cassette tape following the Black History Freedom Trail in Farmington, CT. This driving tour follows the route of our bus tour and book by the same name and it is narrated to the book's author. Put it into your car stereo, follow the map and it's like having our tour guide and author along for the ride!

Each tape is a 90-minute cassette with map and case.
$10.00 each plus $3.00 each for p/h. Checks only.

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Farmington, CT 06034-0138

SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

• Story and Legend of The Charter Oak Tree
  Fascinating presentation and includes interesting rare slide/photos of the actual tree after it fell. This program follows the route of the Charter Oak Tree bus and walking tour.
  
  
• Hartford - City of Heritage
  Highlights of our daily, two hour bus tour, Hartford - City of Heritage. Covers all of our capital city from the founding in 1636 until today.
  
  
• Mark Twain's Early and Later Years
  Rare photos and interesting stories which will expand your knowledge about Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain. Covers his early years in Hannibal, Reno, California and later years at Quarry Farm in Elmira, N. Y. and his last home, 'Stormfield', in Redding, Ct. where he spent his final years and where he died in 1910, age 75. This program does not cover his 20-years in Hartford. (See Mark Twain's Victorian Hartford). This program is presented by our guide who also gives tours through Twain's Hartford home.
  
  
• Amistad Sites (the Lost Eight Months), Underground Railroad and Freedom Trail - Farmington, Ct
  This interesting slide program follows the route of our Amistad bus tour and shows rare sketches of the actual Amistad Africans faces and their signatures.
  
  
• Farmington - A Journey of 360 Years
  Covers everything seen on our bus tours of Farmington.
  
  
• Connecticut - 200 Million Years to Yesterday
  This program is done without slides but with a large state map and covers geology, rivers, native Americans, early settlements and an early who's-who of Connecticut.
  
  
• Covered Wooden Bridges of Connecticut and New England
  This unusual program covers various covered wooden bridge design and construction, large timbering held together with wooden "tree nails", plus slide/photos of old bridges no longer standing and locations of three original bridges still standing in Connecticut.
  
  

Each program takes about one hour. $90.00 per talk is based on presentation in the Hartford area and central Connecticut. For areas beyond, outside of Connecticut and international, please contact Heritage Trails. We come to you - your school, college, church, retirement home, historical society, group or organization.

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Heritage Trails Sightseeing Tours
P. O. Box 138
Farmington, CT 06034-0138
Phone and Fax 860 677-8867

For brochures or information please advise which tours interest you. Free postage within USA. Outside USA send a stamped, self-addressed business-sized envelope for brochures & information.