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upcoming events
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.
Tickets: $15; $10 members; FREE for students, teachers, and museum professionals
This program is supported in part by CT Humanities and is part of Common Ground in a Fractured Nation: Dialogues on the Past and Future of American Democracy, a new series that uses Historic Wethersfield’s distinctive colonial past to help people see and empathize with one another as we approach America’s 250th anniversary.
Common Ground in a Fractured Nation: A Symposium on the Past and Future of American Democracy
Sat, November 2, 10 am – 3 pm
Join us on the eve of the 2024 elections for a constructive and optimistic dialogue about human nature and American communities over the past 375 years. Panelists include our state historian emeritus, a senior historian from the U.S. Department of State, a dean from Yale College, and a documentarian and former Facebook and MTV News executive.
Tickets: $45; $40 members; $10 for students, teachers, and museum professionals — Ticket includes boxed lunch
Thanksgiving Dinner at the Webb Barn
Sun, November 10, 2:30 pm
Our community Thanksgiving Dinner returns to the 1840 Webb Barn Sunday, November 10, with a sumptuous menu of colonial-inspired fare specially developed by a food historian plus an optional champagne reception inside the Silas Deane House. This modern tradition brings smiles and laughter to the museum campus as old friends mingle with new.
Patron-level tickets include an invitation to a champagne reception in the Silas Deane House at 1:00.
Tickets: $115 members; $125 non-members; $250 patron-level
Seating is limited, so purchase your tickets today!
Homes for the Holidays: Tour Seven Old Wethersfield Houses
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.
Witches & Tombstones Tours
SOLD OUT
Saturdays, October 19 and 26, 10:30 am – 4 pm
An up close and creepy examination of all things funereal, our popular Witches & Tombstones Tour returns on Saturday, October 19, and Saturday, October 26.
An up-close and creepy examination of all things funereal, our popular Witches & Tombstones tours return on Saturday, October 19, and Saturday, October 26.
From mourning and medical practices to stories of mass murder and witchcraft, you’ll fly through history at the Isaac Stevens House, Ancient Burying Ground, and Buttolph-Williams House.
Tour times: 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
Tickets: $30 non-members; $25