Join author and historian Briann Greenfield for an engaging discussion about Connecticut antiques and the dedicated collectors who preserved these historical treasures. Discover the fascinating stories of how these valuable pieces traveled between collectors over the past century.
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.
Join evidential medium Scott Allan in the Webb Barn to look through the veil and receive messages from the other side. Evening includes book signing, live medium demonstrations, and a VIP experience.
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 a free movement class designed to build curiosity, strength, range of motion and confidence in your own dance movement. Classes include warm-ups, exercises in mobility, and dynamic choreography phrasework. If you’ve been dancing all your life, are a former dancer, or have never danced before, YOU ARE WELCOME HERE!
Embrace the season of transformation as the veil grows thin. Join us for an enchanting evening exploring the mysteries of the occult and the ancient art of tarot reading.
WDS Director of Preservation & Collections TR Hamilton and distinguished historian Dr. Malcolm Gaskill moderate a group discussion looking at the process through which Dr. Gaskill came to write his 2022 work "A Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World".
An up-close and creepy examination of all things funereal, our popular Witches & Tombstones tour returns on Saturday, October 25th and November 1st. Start at the Isaac Stevens House as an attendee at an early-nineteenth-century wake and learn about mourning practices, how illnesses were treated, and how the living dealt with fears of being buried alive. Then visit Wethersfield’s Ancient Burying Ground.
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Join us on a special Halloween night as we descend into the witching hour. Our Halloween Spooktacular is an immersive experience that will transport you through our haunted history.
An up-close and creepy examination of all things funereal, our popular Witches & Tombstones tour returns on Saturday, October 25th and November 1st. Start at the Isaac Stevens House as an attendee at an early-nineteenth-century wake and learn about mourning practices, how illnesses were treated, and how the living dealt with fears of being buried alive. Then visit Wethersfield’s Ancient Burying Ground.
Come share a table, a toast, and a tradition at our annual Thanksgiving Dinner in the historic Webb Barn, supporting the preservation and education mission of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum. A beloved Wethersfield tradition, our Thanksgiving Dinner invites you to enjoy "A Taste of Time," celebrating five centuries of American fare.
Renowned decorative arts scholar Pat Kane reveals the remarkable story of Connecticut's Wethersfield chest tradition in this specialized lecture. Explore the intersection of artistry, craftsmanship, and cultural identity through these colonial masterpieces that represent some of America's finest early furniture making.