Edwin Carty
Jamaican, born 1930
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BiographyEdwin Carty, one of the early Jamaican immigrants to Hartford, was a founder of the West Indian Independence Celebration that began in 1962 in Hartford. He was instrumental in adding Carnival masqueraders in costume to the Parade, and has a long association with the tradition and its expression in Hartford. In 2016, he advised CCHAP on historical details in the Connecticut Historical Society's Mas Camp exhibition interpretive signage and photographic images.
