Meet at WHS to join horticulturist Gordon Kenneson for an amble along North Meadow Road and the edge of the Farmington River, learn about plants used in 18th-century medicine, and conclude at Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee’s [...]
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 [...]
Join popular horticulturist Gordon Kenneson on Saturday, July 17 from 10-11:30 AM, at Windsor Historical Society for Of Meate and Medicine: Herbs in Early Windsor. Always fascinating, Kenneson will share early remedies for repelling everything [...]
The service of a doctor requires skill, understanding, patience, and knowledge. To become one after being torn from your family and forced into servitude for a man you know nothing of makes the already arduous feat exceptional. In the late 18th century, after years of enslavement Dr. Primus Manumit became Windsor’s first Black doctor.
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 [...]
Both families who lived in the Society’s two historic houses were involved in a quarantine situation in the late 1700s. Dr. Chaffee ordered the Howard family to be quarantined after Capt. Howard contracted smallpox and spread it to his three sons. The care for all of them fell on the shoulders of Mrs. Ann Howard.
How would Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee have treated a fever? A broken bone? Check out Dr. Chaffee’s apothecary chest and medical texts, and mix up some remedies. Talk with Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking artists who [...]
Bray Rossiter (1610-1672) was born to a family of wealth and power. They were Puritans, but were also loyal to the royal family. Bray was well-educated and likely received some medical training before coming to New England aboard the Mary and John in 1630, along with his father Edward, an influential Assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and eleven other family members and servants.
Please join us at Windsor Historical Society at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 10 for a fascinating and sobering evening with Dr. Matthew Cartter, Connecticut State Epidemiologist and Director of the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program, [...]
Please join us on Saturday, July 28, 2018 from 9-10:30 a.m. for a program on Medicinal Herbs at Windsor Historical Society. Horticulturist Gordon Kenneson will share research into old medical texts and recipe books which [...]