Museum of Connecticut Glass puts on the annual Antique Glass & Bottles Show this weekend.
Building on its rich history of glassmaking, the Museum of Connecticut Glass will hold its annual Antique Glass & Bottles Show and Sale this Saturday, May 18 in Coventry. The event coincides with the 200th anniversary celebration of the historic glass factory in town. It’s a really unique event celebrating a very cool piece of Connecticut’s history, one...
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Third Thursday Street Fests. Promoting dancing in the streets.
It’s Third Thursday season in Willimantic again! Third Thursday Street Fests kick off this week – May 16 is the first – and Main Street will be filled to capacity with revelers, tourists and locals alike. It’s a sure sign of summer. Our region loves this party, which has food, music, people, live performers and local artists. Downtown Willimantic...
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Spring is for art. Visit the Quiet Corner for the 9th Annual Spring Artists Collaborative.
In our Quiet Corner town of Woodstock, art is tradition. Beginning April 12, artists from Connecticut and other local areas will showcase creations at the Spring Artists Collaborative. It’s the ninth year for the event, where artists display work from hand-crafted jewelry, clothing, glassware, sculptures, paintings and photography, all displayed for sale in...
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April vacation, Mystic Country style. Featuring pirates, reptiles and Native American history.
Time to start thinking about entertaining the kiddos for their April vacation week. If you’re planning a getaway to the area, there’s plenty to do in Mystic Country: Pirate Days at Mystic Seaport, April 9-10 and 16-17 I’ll personally be stopping by this one – I love pirates! This is a great celebration of our high-sea faring friends. You get to follow...
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Friday night with flappers and bootleggers. Check out “The Gatsby Era,” this Friday at the Benton.
The twenties comes roaring back to life at the William Benton Museum of Art at the Friday Art Forum on March 15. “The Gatsby Era: Art, Literature and the Pursuit of the American Dream” is the theme for the event, moderated by Veronica Makowsky, literature expert and professor in UConn’s English department. Panelists include other UConn professors and experts.The...
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Escape with groovy sixties pop art. Lyman Allyn’s ‘Pop Goes the Easel’ exhibit, now through June.
Andy Warhol, Cow, screenprint on wallpaper, 1971, 45 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Gift of Raymond Macrino, 1971.282. Ever wonder what made Andy Warhol tick? Find out this spring at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s Pop Goes the Easel exhibit, a fun look at sixties pop art and the impact its had in decades since. Along with Warhol, the exhibit features...
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New Program. Eastern Connecticut’s rich mill history is ready for you to explore.
Driving into Willimantic over the famous Frog Bridge one is surrounded by America’s industrial history. Note that those elegantly perched frogs are sitting atop thread spools. Willimantic was once a thriving textile mill city, home to American Thread, and the buildings that once housed the industry still stand today. According to the Windham Textile...
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A blast from the past. Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s “Shaped by the Ancients” exhibit.
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London is showcasing its ancient collection of Greek, Roman, Near Eastern and Egyptian objects now through June 22. The exhibit, Shaped by the Ancients, displays items from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibit is unique in many ways – like the Egyptian falcon mummies from the 6th or 7th century BCE, thought...
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February vacation week, simplified. Mystic Country has all your family activities for the week.
If you’re looking for something to do with the kids’ vacation week, start with the Weird Science event at the Mystic Aquarium. From Saturday, Feb. 16 through Sunday, Feb. 24 the Aquarium team of educators, along with Keith Michael Johnson’s Bubbleology and Mad Science of Eastern Connecticut, will demonstrate weird and wacky science experiments and...
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The Canadian wilderness comes to Old Lyme. Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North exhibit, at Florence Griswold Museum.
Canadian artist Arthur Heming’s work, which showcased Canada as an adventure-filled northern wilderness, will be on exhibit at the Florence Griswold Museum beginning February 8. Flo Gris is the only U.S. stop for the international exhibit, Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North. Fitting, as Heming was a regular at the Lyme Art Colony in the days of Florence...
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