Open Hours - Sun. Sept. 28
When: Sunday, September 28, 2025 1pm - 4pm
Where: Weston History & Culture Center: 104 Weston Rd. Weston, CT ( Parking and entrance accessed from High Acre Rd. Tickets and Check-in Visitor's Center)
Series: Explore History
Open: 1pm - 4pm
Interactive activities for kids of all ages in the Coley House!
Type on a Typewriter! Build with Lincoln Logs!
Play 1940s Games!
Play with TOYS from long ago!
Tops...TinkerToys...Slinkys...and more!
Tickets at the door:
Free for WHCC Members
Non-members: $5 Adults, $3 Kids (5+)
Free for Kids 4 and under.
Your admission gets you the following experiences!
Exhibit: "Images of a Forgotten Village - Valley Forge".
This exhibit is in partnership with the Weston Library Photography Club.
The picturesque Saugatuck Reservoir in Weston, CT was home to a small neighborhood called, Valley Forge. This once thriving community of mills, forges and farms has vanished from memory and sight. The only reminder being photographs.
Join the Weston History & Culture Center and the Weston Library Photography Club for an exploration of this forgotten valley. Late 19th century images produced from glass plate negatives capture the people and places before the building of the Saugatuck Reservoir in the late 1930s. View images and video of the building of the Samuel Senior Dam and the transformation of the area. Modern-day photos explore the only clues left behind from this small, forgotten village.
Exhibit: "May I Have This Dance?
"May I Have This Dance?" featuring rare social dance ephemera from the World War I / Titanic era from the private collection of dance historian Susan de Guardiola. The exhibit includes original early 20th century dance manuals, rare sheet music, and actual dance cards relating to the early days of ballroom dances such as the tango and foxtrot! Browse the cases while enjoying the exhibit soundtrack of popular ragtime dance music of the 1910s.
Guided Tours of the historic Coley House Take a guided tour of the award-winning Coley House! On your tour, learn how the Coley family would have lived, worked, and played during the 1940s.
Kids can play with toys and games from the 1940s, build with Lincoln Logs and type on an old typewriter!
Enjoy a stroll through the whimsical Daniel E. Offutt, III Sculpture Garden, created by the late Daniel E. Offutt, III who was a Weston resident and a benefactor to the Weston History & Culture Center.