Join long time Society member and researcher Al Boehm for the fascinating story of how changes in the British royal government and the historic Charter Oak incident shaped Windsor’s 17th-century development and doubled the town’s [...]
Len Hellerman | Photo by Defining Studios Did you know that the founder of the dental profession was a Windsor native? Join popular Windsor dentist and photographer Len Hellerman as he drills down [...]
Note change of date from published calendars. Drink and learn! Enjoy wine samples as award-winning historian and educator Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre highlights wine consumption in colonial Windsor and the surprising role that the wine trade played [...]
At Windsor Senior Center. Join Windsor Historical Society Archivist Michelle Tom for a fascinating photographic tour of Windsor’s changing streetscapes. This will be a trip down memory lane for some, as Michelle reveals rarely seen [...]
Popular horticulturist Gordon Kenneson returns with another fascinating and humorous herbal medicine program. Gordon will share research into old medical texts and recipe books which has yielded fascinating herbal remedies, some still used, some blessedly [...]
Did you know that almost 450 Windsor men served in the American Revolution, and that as many as 14 (maybe more) of them were Black? We know a little about some of them, and almost [...]
We are proud to partner with Windsor Art Center and many others in hosting the Connecticut River and Roots Festival, a family friendly celebration of regional culture and music. Headliner Jake Blount, award-winning interpreter of [...]
Celebrate Women’s History Month at this talk about noted Windsor photographer Katherine Barker Drake, presented by Curator Kristen Wands. Hear about Drake’s passion for photography as well as her spirited personality and other contributions to [...]
Longman in her studio. Photograph from the collection of the Loomis Chaffee Archives, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut Join Karen Parsons, Archivist and Curator at Loomis Chaffee School, in a presentation on sculptor Evelyn Longman. [...]
Learn about the golden age of botany, grand, and tarnished, with horticulturist Gordon Kenneson. In this program, Kenneson will discuss medicinal plants, how they were used in early New England, and their place in the 1810s Chaffee doctor’s office.
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