1. America's First Law School, Sarah Pierce's Academy, & The Way We Mourned

It was home to America's first law school and to one of the first schools in which a woman could get a real education. Litchfield today is one of Connecticut's prettiest towns. Join state historian Walt Woodward on a field trip to the Litchfield Historical Society, where Executive Director Cathy Fields talks about her amazing institution and it's two brand new exhibits – one of the Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy and another on expressions of sorrow and mourning in the early 1800s.

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