Search
Close this search box.

April Break Workshop: Building a Fairy House

Fairy house workshop greenwich histosrical

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

God’s Little Acre: The Slave Trade in Newport with Keith Stokes

Gods Little Acre Newport Rhode Island

Cemeteries are largely seen as final resting places – an end. But God’s Little Acre, a Colonial African Burying Ground in Newport, Rhode Island is the beginning point to a rich cultural tapestry that is Newport’s African and African-American history. Recognized as the oldest and largest existing enslaved and free African heritage burying ground in … Read more

Camp Registration: Elementary School

Elementary School Camps 2nd – 5th Grade, 9:30 am – 2:30 pmHistory Camp: July 26 – 30Art Camp: August 2 – 6 For more information or assistance with registration please call 203-869-6899, or contact Heather Lodge at hlodge@greenwichhistory.org.

Camp Registration: Middle School

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.

2021 Art, History and Landscape Lecture

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

April Break Workshop: Building a Fairy House

Fairy house workshop greenwich histosrical

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