Celebrate Traditional Crafts Day

Saturday, June 2
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
FREE

Join us for a day of free demonstrations and activities for both families and adults celebrating the continuing tradition of making things by hand. Woodworkers featured in our current exhibit, A Tradition of Craft: Current Works by the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, will demonstrate age-old techniques and hand tools, with the chance to try them out. Several other traditional crafts, such as basket-weaving, black-smithing, and hand-spinning, will also be on view, and a kids' area will offer a variety of hands-on projects to make and take home. Demonstrations will be set up on the museum grounds (weather permitting) or indoors in case of rain. Food will be available for sale, and the museum galleries will be open and FREE all day. For more information, call (860) 236-5621 x209 or email Mary Muller.

Premier sponsors of A Tradition of Craft: Current Works by the Society of American Period Furniture Makers are:

 
Still Looking for a Great Summer Activity for a High School Student?

Our Summer Enrichment Program brings together a small group of teenagers for four weeks over the summer from Monday, July 9 through Thursday, August 2, allowing students to pursue their interest in history and develop important life and work skills. Students have the chance to work behind the scenes at the CHS, take weekly trips to other museums, make new friends, and much more! Pre-registration required. For more information, call (860) 236-5621 x222 or email Erin Kania.