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  • PERFORMANCE | American Contemporary Dances with The Hartford Dance Collective

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    For the first time, the Webb Deane Stevens Museum brings live dance into its historic barn. Experience an in-the-round performance by The Hartford Dance Collective featuring new and established works that explore strength, resilience, and self-expression. Inspired by America's 250th anniversary, these bold dances amplify women's voices—in a space where the courage to claim one's own has always mattered. Seating is limited.

  • PERFORMANCE | American Contemporary Dances with The Hartford Dance Collective

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    For the first time, the Webb Deane Stevens Museum brings live dance into its historic barn. Experience an in-the-round performance by The Hartford Dance Collective featuring new and established works that explore strength, resilience, and self-expression. Inspired by America's 250th anniversary, these bold dances amplify women's voices—in a space where the courage to claim one's own has always mattered. Seating is limited.

  • LECTURE | The Art of Collecting

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Join textile historian Ned Lazaro, Associate Curator of Textiles and Costumes at The Wadsworth Atheneum and former curator of textiles at Historic Deerfield for a moderated discussion on the history of collecting schoolgirl samplers and other forms of needlepoint in the United States.

  • FEUDING FOUNDERS COLLECTIVE | Wethersfield Symposium: The Making of Silas Deane

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    They were allies, rivals, and collaborators — sometimes all at once. The Feuding Founders Collective launches at WDS with a daylong symposium exploring the real Silas Deane, John Jay, and the Lee brothers of Virginia. Walk the historic houses, hear from scholars at three partner sites, and discover why these 250-year-old rivalries feel so familiar. This is the real story — not the tidy one.

  • FREE EVENT | Wethersfield 250 Jubilee: Revolutionary War Encampment & Traditional Trades Fair

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Travel back in time and experience our Annual Revolutionary War Encampment and Traditional Trades Fair. Join us all day for a fun, educational immersion in the Colonial era, including period music, open hearth cooking demonstrations, children’s colonial games, traditional craft-making, woodworking, masonry, weaving, musket demonstrations, camp tours with the 5th Connecticut Regiment, and so much more.

  • CT Open House Day

    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    The Webb Dean Stevens Museum will celebrate the annual Connecticut Open House Day with reduced Museum admission all day and free self-guided tours of the first floor of the Deane house from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Experience living history on a guided tour of our three historic homes, relax in our tranquil garden, and enjoy treasures both antique and modern in our thoughtfully curated gift shop.

  • LECTURE | Portraits of Patriots with Historian Damien Cregeau

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    One man painted the Revolution. Another held the Bible at Washington's inauguration. Both have deep Connecticut roots. Historian Damien Cregeau traces six extraordinary Revolutionary War lives—including Wethersfield's own Samuel Webb—in this richly illustrated presentation. In person and via Zoom. Books available for signing on-site.

  • Postponed LECTURE | Roots & Rhythms (New Date TBD)

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    This event has been postponed. Contact rdumouchel@wdsmuseum.org to be notified when a new date is chosen. Head Gardener Peter Winne explores the science and folklore behind the influence of sound on plant life—part lecture, part live demonstration, and completely unlike anything else on our calendar.

  • CONCERT | American Jazz in the Barn

    Webb Barn 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, United States

    Join WDS for a summer concert in the Webb Barn on September 25. An intimate evening of live jazz.

  • LECTURE | Women of the Revolution with Zara Anishanslin

    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    The Revolution wasn’t won by generals alone. In this companion lecture to the Webb Deane Stevens Museum's exhibition Remember the Ladies: Women of the Revolution, Zara Anishanslin introduces us to the women who shaped the war for independence