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  • America’s Tapestry: Commemorating the Revolution Through Fiber Arts

    Webb Deane Stevens Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, United States

    April 9th, 7:00pm. America's Tapestry: Commemorating the Revolution Through Fiber Arts LECTURE | With Stefan Romero Discover the extraordinary America's Tapestry project—a nationwide initiative creating hand-stitched panels commemorating the American Revolution, with each state contributing its own unique narrative in thread. Stefan Romero shares the inspiring story of how this project came to be and […]

  • Captain Moses Tryon

    Keeney Memorial Cultural Center 200 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, United States

    April 24th, 7:00pm. Lecture: Captain Moses Tryon: Local Hero in a Global Conflict Wethersfield Historical Society presents Joseph Morneault, former director of historical music at the USS Constitution Museum, as part of its American Revolution Program Series. Morneault is the author of an upcoming biography on Wethersfield resident Moses Tryon. Learn all about Tryon's contributions […]

  • Founding Mothers

    Keeney Memorial Cultural Center 200 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, United States

    May 14th, 6:30pm. Lecture: Founding Mothers As part of its American Revolution Program Series, Wethersfield Historical Society presents historian Dr. Amanda Goodheart Parks. Parks will deliver Founding Mothers, a lecture about women in Wethersfield and across the colonies who made significant contributions to the American Revolution. Despite Abigail Adams famously exhorting her husband and his […]

  • The Art of Collecting

    Webb Deane Stevens Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, United States

    May 14th, 7:00pm. The Art of Collecting LECTURE | With Ned Lazaro at the Webb Deane Stevens Museum What drives someone to seek out a two-hundred-year-old sampler—and what does that impulse tell us about who we are? Join textile historian Ned Lazaro, Associate Curator of Textiles and Costumes at The Wadsworth Atheneum and former curator […]

  • Feuding Founders Collective

    Webb Deane Stevens Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, United States

    May 16th, 10:00am - 3:00pm. Feuding Founders Collective: The Untold Drama of Silas Deane, John Jay, and the Lees of Virginia Three sites. Three perspectives. Three stories of imperfect men trying to build something that had never existed before. They were allies and rivals. Collaborators and critics. Sometimes all at once. This spring, the Feuding […]

  • New-Gate’s Role in the Revolution

    Keeney Memorial Cultural Center 200 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, United States

    June 2nd, 7:00pm. Lecture: The Catacomb of Loyalty; A Deep Dive into New-Gate's Role in the Revolution Wethersfield Historical Society presents The Catacomb of Loyalty: A Deep Dive into New-Gate’s Role in the Revolution, a lecture given by Morgan Bengel, curator and site administrator of Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine. This talk is part […]

  • The French Alliance & The Road to Yorktown

    Keeney Memorial Cultural Center 200 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, United States

    July 21st, 7:00pm. Lecture: The French Alliance & The Road to Yorktown University of Maryland History Professor Dr. Richard Bell delivers The French Alliance & the Road to Yorktown as the next installment of Wethersfield Historical Society's American Revolution Program Series. Wethersfield resident Silas Deane played a crucial role in helping to establish the important […]