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Join us and 15 other CT Historic Sites to celebrate the 22nd annual CT Historic Gardens Day ! Spend a perfect Sunday wandering our Colonial Revival Garden. Chat with a Garden Angel about our blooms, join a scavenger hunt, channel your inner artist with rock painting, enjoy complimentary refreshments in the barn, take a morning yoga class on the lawn, or attend a lecture with head gardener Peter Winn

Roots & Rhythms: A Garden Talk with Pete Winne Sunday, June 28 | 11 am | Webb Deane Stevens Museum What does tending a garden have in common with playing a folk song? More than you might think. Join WDS head gardener Pete Winne for a one-of-a-kind presentation weaving together the art of horticulture and the art of musical expression—illustrated live with folk music. Part lecture, part performance, entirely unexpected. Tickets: $15 | Children under

Calling all bookworms, history buffs, preservationists and culture mavens! Join us for our NEW year-long book club, accompanied by a lecture series with acclaimed authors. This month we’re reading: The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution By Zara Anishanslin (Available on Audible) Tuesday, August 11, 6 pm | In Person and Virtual Moderated

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LECTURE | Civic Stitches: Early American Needlework and National Identity with Emily Whitted, Guest-Curator, American Girlhood: Needlework, Memory, and The Making of a Nation Thursday,

Register your interest with an email to Suzanne Clary: [email protected] This event takes place at Jay Heritage Center in Rye, NY. Attend the full day in person, or purchase a virtual ticket for the roundtable discussion. We tend to remember the founders as marble men — monumental, unified, certain. The truth is messier and more inte

Calling all bookworms, history buffs, preservationists and culture mavens! Join us for our NEW year-long book club, accompanied by a lecture series with acclaimed authors. This month we’re reading: Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale By Averill Earls Tuesday, October 13, 6 pm | In Person and Virtual Moderated by TR Revella-Hamilton, WDS Director of Preservation &

This event takes place at Stratford Hall and Menokin in Virginia. Attend the full day in person, or purchase a virtual ticket for the roundtable discussion. Presented in partnership with Jay Heritage Center (NY), Friends of John Jay Homestead, and Menokin and Stratford Hall (VA), this series destabilizes the one-dimensional portraits we’ve inherited and invites audiences to sit with the full complexity of these lives: the