Thurs, November 21, 10:30–noon

Come learn about holiday craftmaking in the 18th century in a hands-on workshop for adults and teens. You’ll get to try your hand a making a variety of decorations as we prepare the Webb Deane Stevens Museum for the upcoming holiday season, with your work featured in the museum houses through December! Light refreshments will be provided.

Tickets: $8 adults and teens

Sat, November 30, 10:30–noon

Join us for a holiday crafting workshop for adults and children and learn how to make paper holiday ornaments! Paper ornament-making has a long history, and we’ll be taking a hands-on look into that tradition. Participants will be supplied with materials, and ornaments will be put on display in the Webb House throughout December.

Tickets: $8 adults and teens

Sat, December 7, 10 am – 4 pm

See four private homes plus the three houses of the WDS Museum, all decorated for the season in CT’s largest and oldest historic district! Warm up between houses with complimentary hot beverages and treats in the Holcombe Education Center! For a modest add-on price, claim a boxed lunch and admission to a noontime lecture on by Deborah V.R. Harper, an authority on the history of holiday celebrations.

Hosted by the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Connecticut.

Tickets: General admission $70 in advance or $75 at the door; $100 with boxed lunch and lecture

Proceeds benefit preservation and education at the Webb Deane Stevens Museum.

Fri–Sat, December 13–14 & 20–21, 6:00, 7:00, & 8:00 pm

Experience three centuries of Christmas, beautifully lit by candlelight with accompanying wine, treats, and non-alcoholic refreshments. The tour progresses from Christmas in Connecticut and other colonies in the Deane House to Victorian Christmas in the Stevens House to 20th-century Christmas in the Webb House. Get your tickets today as space is limited!

Tickets: $25 members; $30 non-members

POSTPONED from October 23 in person to January 15 via Zoom. Tickets available now for the new date.

Discover how a prominent New England woman’s look at her family history was entangled with gender, nationalism, race, memory, and the Colonial Revival. Historian MaryKate Smolenski examines how and why loyalism to the Crown, which divided families and communities during the American Revolution, was edited out of the picture in the 1920s.