Originally scheduled programs are listed below, pending health and safety conditions and the Governor’s guidance, please refer back to this page for any changes or updates.
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April 2020
A striking selection of beautifully and creatively furnished historic Windsor residences will be open for public touring. See homes from several centuries built in a variety of architectural styles.
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Note: following state social distancing guidelines, this event has been canceled. Family history researchers find that historical artifacts and documents become pieces of a complex and fascinating puzzle that shows you where you came from [...]
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Windsor Historical Society will be participating in Virtual Connecticut Open House Day this year! Although we sadly can't welcome you in to our physical doors, we will be sharing videos on Windsor history. Watch Society [...]
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(Please note new start time of 8:30) Windsor Historical Society by-laws call for an annual membership meeting each June to approve the selection of Board officers. Before the COVID-19 outbreak, we announced this year’s annual [...]
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On Friday, June 26, at 6:00 p.m. we’re hosting our first ever Facebook Live Historic Libations event! Using a bar tab that George Washington and a volunteer cavalry corps ran up at Philadelphia’s City Tavern [...]
Find out moreJuly 2020
Join us on Wednesday, July 15, from 10:00 to 11:30 AM for a special behind the scenes look at the quilts of Windsor Historical Society with curator Kristen Wands. The Society’s beautiful and varied quilts [...]
Find out moreDue to popular demand, curator Kristen Wands will be hosting a second session of her special behind-the-scenes look at the quilts of Windsor Historical Society. This will be a repeat of the same program given [...]
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Do you know what herb repels ants, treats sunburn and was used to line coffins? Join horticulturalist Gordon Kenneson at Windsor Historical Society to find out! Kenneson will present “Garden Herbs: Their Medicinal and Culinary [...]
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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 [...]
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The year is 1810, and young Annie is beginning a new life in Windsor, Connecticut…and so Windsor Historical Society unveils its latest publication, Annie’s Home, a children’s story based on the real people who lived [...]
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