Editing Oxford, Connecticut (section)

==Arts and culture==
The Oxford Public Library was originally founded in 1883<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordlib.org/about-us/history-of-the-library/|title=History of the Library – Oxford Public Library}}</ref> and has moved several times, including to a new location in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordlib.org/building-our-new-library-project/|title = Building Our New Library Project – Oxford Public Library}}</ref>

From 1966 through 1973, Oxford was the home of ''Harmony Ranch'' on Bowers Hill Road,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gis.vgsi.com/oxfordct/Parcel.aspx?pid=1418|title="Town of Oxford, Assessors Office database of taxable properties"|date=2020|access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref> occupied by a group of research associates at Yale's School of Art and Architecture. Calling themselves a multimedia arts collective, they operated under the group-name ''Pulsa''.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/communal-experimentalism-in-the-sixties-the-pulsa-group/|title="Communal Experimentalism in the Sixties: The Pulsa Group"|last=O'Brien|first=Kerry|date=May 25, 2016|magazine=NewMusicUSA|access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref>  Over its lifetime, Pulsa placed notable sound/light installations at Yale, MOMA (NY), Boston Public Gardens, University of Rhode Island, SUNY-Albany, and California Institute of the Arts,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8f47w61/entire_text/|title=Guide to the Pulsa Records M2540|website=Online Archive of California|access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref> among other locations.  [[David Rumsey]], a founding member, was quoted in the New York Times as saying ''"“Our art's an experience and after it's over, it's over. There's nothing to own”''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/24/archives/pulsa-sound-light-and-7-young-artists.html|title=Pulsa: Sound, Light and 7 Young Artists|last=Shirey|first=David|work=The New York Times |date=December 24, 1970|access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref>

===Museums and other points of interest===
* [[Quaker Farms Historic District]]
* Wooster Sawmill and Gristmill Site
* [[Twitchell-Rowland Homestead Center and Museum]]
The people of Oxford and the Oxford Historical Society were honored with a Connecticut Trust Preservation Award in 2012 for preservation efforts with respect to the Twitchell-Rowland Homestead.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cttrust.org/12635 |title=Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation |access-date=March 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316151920/http://cttrust.org/12635 |archive-date=March 16, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>