Family history researchers find that historical artifacts and documents become pieces of a complex and fascinating puzzle that shows you where you came from and who you are. Inevitably, experienced as well as inexperienced genealogists [...]
In collaboration with the Senior Center Interactive presentation with Melanie Stringer, program director at Windsor Historical Society, featuring primary sources and reproduction artifacts to tell the stories of people whose migration had significant impacts on [...]
Learn how spies helped the Patriot—and sometimes the British—cause during the American Revolution. Join us on Thursday, July 13 at 7 p.m. when board member and educator Liz Burke will share fascinating stories about Revolutionary [...]
Meet at Windsor Historical Society's museum to join horticulturist Gordon Kenneson for an amble down historic North Meadow Road—a route within the original highway from Hartford to Springfield—along the edge of the Farmington River. Learn [...]
Did you or a member of your family work on one of Windsor’s many tobacco or other farms? Do you have memories or experiences that you’d like to share about the town’s agricultural past? Join [...]
Researching your family tree? Stuck on a brick wall? This informal gathering of fellow researchers engages in lively discussion and problem solving. The Society has a World Explorer membership to Ancestry.com, which means worldwide records [...]
Who was Sarah Margu? Join friends at Windsor Historical Society on Saturday, August 5 from 1 to 2 PM to find out as performing artist and storyteller Tammy Denease brings Sarah Margu to life through [...]
Gather with friends and neighbors on the WHS lawn for a lively outdoor show by locally grown talent Low Ceilings as featured in our current exhibit Puritans, Polkas, and Pop, as they return to Windsor [...]
Family history researchers find that historical artifacts and documents become pieces of a complex and fascinating puzzle that shows you where you came from and who you are. Inevitably, experienced as well as inexperienced genealogists [...]
With Becky Hendricks at Windsor Historical Society’s Strong-Howard House. Explore historic garden bounties while working with foodways expert Becky Hendricks over an outdoor fire! Selections include cabbage sallet, parsnip fritters, Pepys’s sallet of cold roast [...]