Swept Away: The Resilience Of A Small Connecticut Town is a Gunn Historical Museum pop-up exhibit on display throughout February in the lobby of the Bryan Memorial Town Hall, in Washington Depot, Connecticut. “Swept Away” is a follow-up to “The Lost Depot” exhibit of black and white photographs that depicted Washington Depot before 1955, and was held at Marty’s Café, on Green Hill Road, last month.
Swept Away: The Flood of 1995 and the Resilience of a small Connecticut Town” is comprised of 7 panels of photos and written descriptions that together illustrate the causes, the destruction, the rescues and the dramatic aftermath of August 19th 1955. The panels were originally used in a Museum exhibit mounted in 1995.
Museum curator Stephen Bartkus, currently working on the Gunn Historical Museum’s new permanent history of Washington exhibit, hopes that this pop-up exhibit will not only tell the story of the Flood to new residents who perhaps do not know what happened to the town on that fateful summer day, but will also encourage long-time Washington residents with flood photos never seen before and flood stories of their own, to share these with the Museum for possible use inhe new Washington history exhibit slated to open in May 2017. 
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