Webb Deane Stevens Museum

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,

Join us in the Webb Barn for a live concert. An intimate evening of live jazz in the Webb Barn, honoring the most distinctly American art form on a night made for close listening. Family friendly event. Tickets: On Sale July 1

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

The Revolution wasn’t won by generals alone. In this companion lecture to the Webb Deane Stevens Museum’s exhibition Remember the Ladies: Women of the Revolution , Zara Anishanslin introduces us to the women who shaped the war for independence—from those who rallied communities and supplied armies to the enslaved women whose pursuit of freedom exposed the deepest contradictions of the new nation. These are stories of courage, resourcefulness, and influence that have waited too l

Turning the Cards: Tarot, Intuition & New Beginnings On a waning crescent evening, Karen Riccio demystifies the Major and Minor Arcana in a workshop that keeps the practice both grounded and genuinely magical. Tickets:

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 &

From Variolation to Vaccination: The Transformation of Disease Prevention in the Early Republic (1796–c.1825) Forensic anthropologist Anna Dhody traces America’s dramatic shift from dangerous variolation to revolutionary vaccination, revealing a founding-era debate about trust, auth

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