Friday, March 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Paint Me a Picture, a children’s vacation workshop for 2^nd through 6^th graders. Children will visit Bush-Holley House and make their own masterpiece using acrylic paints. $12 per workshop. Reservations required. Call (203) 552-5329 ext. 4.

For more information on the Historical Society, please visit www.hstg.org.

During winter vacation week, from Tuesday, February 19 to Thursday, February 21, Bush-Holley Historic Site will offer Children’s Vacation Workshops for 2^nd through 6^th graders around the theme, Paint Me a Picture. Each day children will use a different kind of paint to create works of art. On Tuesday children will use tempera paint. Wednesday will focus on watercolor paints and on Thursday the class will experiment with acrylics. Workshops include a visit to Bush-Holley House to see related artwork by artists of the Cos Cob art colony era. Two sessions are offered: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. The cost is $12 per workshop ($30 for all 3). Registration is required for all sessions. Call (203) 552-5329 ext. 4.

For more information on the Historical Society, please visit www.hstg.org.

On Thursday, February 14, Bush-Holley Historic Site will present a special Valentine Celebration for children from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Children will celebrate the holiday by designing their own Valentines Day cards and decorating special heart-shaped cookies. The workshop will take place in the Vanderbilt Education Center and is open to children of all ages. The cost is $7 per child. Reservations are recommended and may be made by calling (203) 869-6899 ext. 10.

For more information on the Historical Society, please visit www.hstg.org.

On Saturday, January 26 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. the American Classical Orchestra will present The Magic Recorder in the Vanderbilt Education Center. The program introduces children to the pleasures of classical music in an interactive, age-appropriate and entertaining format. Audiences learn the differences between the period instruments and their modern counterparts. “The Magic Recorder” features international recorder star Horacio Franco and Thomas Crawford performing Baroque music, including Vivaldi’s “Winter” from the “Four Seasons,” on the recorder and harpsichord. The 45-minute performance will begin promptly at 1:00 p.m. Recorders will be available for purchase at the event or children may bring their own. The cost is $15 per person.

Dressed in period costume as the distinguished 18^th century composer Vivaldi, Thomas Crawford will perform on the harpsichord. Horacio Franco will perform on a variety of recorders from his extensive collection and demonstrate the differences between instruments. The American Classical Orchestra is dedicated to fostering and preserving the great music of the Baroque, Classical and early Romantic eras. Under the direction of founder Maestro Thomas Crawford, the ACO it has become a leading orchestra in the New York Metropolitan and Tri-State area. Reservations are strongly recommended and may be made by calling (203) 869-6899 ext. 10.

For more information on the Historical Society, please visit www.hstg.org.

Antiquarius 2007, the week-long series of events that includes the renowned Greenwich Antiques Show and season favorite Holiday House Tour, will take place November 29 through December 5, 2007. The roster of dealers, this year, includes many nationally and internationally known names. “For the celebration of our 50^th Antiques Show, we are planning a particularly beautiful and diverse show with a number of new and exciting exhibitors,” said Greenwich Historical Society Director of Development Melinda Sherman. “Our theme is “celebrating 50 years of collecting” and visitors will find everything from exquisite estate jewelry to Biedermeier furniture to French antique wine-making accoutrements and Ming Dynasty ceramics. The range is tremendous.”

The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich holds Antiquarius each year to benefit the education programs at Bush-Holley Historic Site, which include The Afterschool, Artist-in-Residence Program for students, family programs, and special events that serve over 7000 children in Fairfield and Westchester Counties. The largest annual fundraising activity to benefit The Historical Society, Antiquarius includes a gala preview party, antiques show, designer forum, holiday house tour of Greenwich homes and a holiday shopping boutique.

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Book Launch Celebration at Bush-Holley Historic Site
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David Blight

Thursday, December 6, 6:30 p.m. - A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David Blight

Book Launch Celebration
in the Vanderbilt Education Center
Free admission

Join us to celebrate the recently published work, A Slave No More by David Blight. The book features the Wallace Turnage slave narrative, held in the collection of the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, and also the slave narrative of John Washington. Filled with the two men’s humor, faith, and joy, A Slave No More offers a rich new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to freedom, and tells the previously untold stories of two men who can now take their place in the canon of American history.

David Blight is the Director of Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and is also a professor of American history. His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Lincoln Prize, four awards from the Organization of American Historians, and the Bancroft Prize. He writes for The Washington Post and lectures around the country on slavery and the Civil War, and lives in New Haven, CT.

Thursday, October 25 at 6:30 p.m., see the film, Daddy-Long-Legs (1955), starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron adapted from the book by the same name that is featured in the Bush-Holley current exhibition, Once Upon a Page: Illustrations by Cos Cob Artists. John Farr, the entertaining and engaging movie expert and co-founder of the Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford, Connecticut will host the event and offer his unique insights into the film. The fee is $15 per person, $12 for Historical Society members. Call 203-869-6899, ext. 10 to reserve. Visit www.hstg.org for more information

A new exhibition, Once Upon a Page: Illustrations by Cos Cob Artists will open on October 3. The public is invited to an opening wine and cheese reception Thursday, October 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibit, there will be two “movie nights,” October 25 at 6:30 p.m. featuring Daddy-Long-Legs (1955) and November 15 of Curly Top (1935).

A dramatic reading at 7:00 p.m. in the Vanderbilt Education Center at Bush-Holley Historic Site. The first act of a new play derived from a collection of World War II letters, to and from the home front, will be presented as a dramatic reading by three actors. Greenwich resident Catherine Ladnier and her collaborator Paul Janensch, associate professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University, are writing the non-fiction play based on wartime letters saved by Catherine’s mother, Eva Lee Brown, of Easley, S.C. The performance is followed by a “talkback” with the audience, writers and actors. World-War II themed refreshments to be served. $15 per person, $10 for members. Call 203-869-6899, ext. 10 for information or to register.

Fall lecture series that will explore the fascinating world of antebellum reform and introduce audiences to new scholarship while inspiring discussion. First lecture: Utopia and Reform in Antebellum New England. Coffee begins at 9:30 a.m. Lecture begins at 10:00 a.m. Christopher Clark, PhD, Professor of History at University of Connecticut, Storrs, will discuss alternative societies that formed in New England prior to the Civil War. Each lecture is $15 per person and $12 for members of The Historical Society of the Town of
Greenwich. Lecture series of 3: $40 for non-members, $30 for members. Call 203-869-6899, ext. 18 for details or to register.