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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.

  • Postponed Dance Class with The Hartford Dance Collective [New Date TBA]

    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Join us one Saturday a month at 10 am to awaken your creativity and get you moving. Each month, a choreographer from the Hartford Dance Collective will lead an open-level dance class designed to build curiosity, strength, range of motion and confidence in your own dance movement.

  • 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.

  • TEA | Mother’s Day Tea

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Treat the special women in your life to an elegant Mother’s Day filled with flowers and flavor. Enjoy music and a morning stroll through our gardens, then share tea, cake, and conversation overlooking the beautiful grounds.

  • 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.

  • CONCERT | American Bluegrass & Square Dance

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    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    A two-act evening at the Webb Barn: seated bluegrass concert with Audrey Mae, followed by a live-music square dance led by caller Liz Slade. No experience necessary.

  • 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.

  • Flowers & Flavor: Garden Tour with Tea

    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Start your Sunday off with florals, flavor, and flair.Join our Head Gardener Peter Winne for an intimate tour of our colonial revival gardens, followed by “high tea” in the garden.