Middle School Camps 6th – 8th Grade, 9:30 am – 2:30 pmHistory Camp: July 12 – 16Art Camp: July 19 – 23 For more information or assistance with registration please call 203-869-6899, or contact Heather Lodge at hlodge@greenwichhistory.org.
The Pen and the Trowel: Authors, Their Gardens and Mine with Marta McDowell Emily Dickinson once described herself as “a lunatic on bulbs.” For the past 30 years Marta McDowell, author and teacher of landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden has been occupied (preoccupied?) — with writers who garden. Researching their … Read more
Come join us for some April vacation fun! The Greenwich Historical Society is offering a series of educational, hands-on activities for the break. In this workshop, students will learn lore surrounding a fairy’s home, from the ancient Japanese Urashima Taro to the Victorian English Goblin Market to the Hudson Valley’s own revolutionary Rip Van Winkle. … Read more
Come join us for some April vacation fun! The Greenwich Historical Society is offering a series of educational, hands-on activities for the break. What Will My Garden Grow? In this workshop, students will learn about the life of a plant from seeds to fruit. Tied to our Spring 2021 Beautiful Work: The Art of Greenwich … Read more
Join us for a local look at the Early Native- and African-American experience in Greenwich with researcher and historian Theresa Vega. Our discussion will include the rise and decline of the community of Hangroot, the area of Round Hill Road where her ancestors lived for generations, as well as her extended family’s fight to save … Read more
Join Maggie Dimock, Greenwich Historical Society Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, for an illustrated evening lecture on renowned American Impressionist artist Childe Hassam and his close ties to the village of Cos Cob. Learn more about the thriving art colony that grew around the 18th-century Cos Cob boardinghouse run by the Holley family (now operated … Read more
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