By Annelise Hanshaw | Greenwich Time | July 24, 2022
Eight kids learned to churn butter, weave and make lanterns this week as they imagined what it was like to live like the Bush and Holley families in the 18th and 19th centuries.
By Maggie Dimock | Connecticut Explored Inc. | Summer 2022
In a letter scribbled on stationery from The Players club in New York in the winter of 1902, now held in the Holley-MacRae Papers in the collection of the Greenwich Historical Society, American Impressionist artist John Henry Twachtman (1853 – 1902) put into words the dislocation and exhaustion of city living: “I wish I were back. The town is using me up. I am on the go from morning until night and nothing doing. Always busy about some damned unnecessary thing and spending money to beat the band and to no purpose. And I also miss the painting.”
By Anne W. Semmes | Greenwich Sentinel | July 15, 2022
Come to a unique dinner-dance event to celebrate 90 years of service to the community. Taking place on the grounds of the neoclassical Beaux Arts-style waterfront estate, Easterly, circa 1902. A giant tent will evoke the glamorous Café Society, so transformed into the famed zebra-striped New York El Morocco nightclub. Inside, guests will be dancing to the tunes of Cole Porter and George Gershwin.
By Ali Muldoon | Greenwich Sentinel | July 8, 2022
When Covid-19 hit, the Greenwich Historical Society was determined to continue to preserve and disseminate the history of Greenwich. To achieve this goal, the group compiled a plethora of self-guided walking tours rich with information on what Greenwich was like before Lululemon and Saks 5th Avenue.
Help us to fulfill our mission to preserve and interpret Greenwich history to strengthen the community’s connection to our past, to each other and to our future.
