The Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden invites you to join us and Litchfield Distillery for a fascinating look at the martini and American cocktail culture while enjoying the splendid beauty of Caroline Ferriday’s beloved summer home. This event will offer a tasting and the history behind Caroline’s favorite cocktail. The cost for this event is $40 per person ($30 for CTL members) the event runs from 4-7PM.
Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden, 9 Main Street North , Bethlehem, CT
203-266-7596
This is a must-attend event hosted by the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden at Winvian (Morris, CT) join us as Martha Hall Kelly talks about her newest novel, The Martha’s Vineyard, Beach and Book Club. Inspired by true events this latest work is a personal look into the author’s own family history. She will share the stories behind this novel while you sip tea and enjoy the delicious offering of Windians’ fabulous cuisine. Price for the event is $140.
This event will be held at Winvian
155 Alain White Road
Morris, CT
from 12:30 -3PM
A New Page with Martha Hall Kelly: The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club
Join us at House of Books for a book talk and signing with Amanda Quaid, where she will be in conversation with Celia Keenan-Bolger about her new book No Obvious Distress.
About the book:
On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call – the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda’s marriage, work and family life as she knows it.
Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda’s unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.
House of Books
10 N Main St
Kent, CT 06757
https://www.houseofbooksct.com/events/3525820251013
Folk music legend Tom Rush will be kicking off the St Andrew’s Parish “Music in the Nave Concert Series” at 8:00 PM on Saturday October 4, 2025. All Tickets: $35
St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 1 North Main Street, Kent, CT 06757
https://bit.ly/TomRush1
Date
09/06/2025
Event Details
Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September with a reception for the artist on Sept. 6 at 2:00 PM
The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4×5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures.
Woodbury Public Library
269 Main Street South, Woodbury CT 06798
https://woodburylibraryct.libcal.com/event/15145158
From September 13 to November 1, the Cornwall Library will present “Verisimilitude”, selection of studies, reliefs, busts, portraits, nudes, and maquettes (small preliminary models) by celebrated sculptor Neil Estern (1926-2019). Perhaps his best-known sculpture is the nearly nine-foot statue of a seated, caped FDR at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC, which also features his statues of Eleanor Roosevelt and the president’s beloved terrier, Fala.
Although he worked during a period in which abstracted and exaggerated depictions of the body were the accepted norm in the art world, Estern’s work remained firmly connected to classical realism —verisimilitude—and the monumental sculptors who had so profoundly influenced him.
Estern acknowledged that his work was also influenced to a “subtle, unconscious” degree by his personal feelings about the subject. When Life magazine commissioned him to illustrate a cover story about J. Edgar Hoover entitled “The Emperor of the FBI,” Estern represented Hoover as a Roman potentate carved in marble. “It was a caricature and emphasized a bit of what I thought was his evil side,” he said. “There are some innate elements, some vibrations that a person is sending out that I absorb and want to get into the sculpture. Something below the surface is going to make that piece of sculpture unique.”
His public works, mostly cast in bronze and displayed in prominent venues, include (in addition to those mentioned above) sculptures of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Irving Berlin, and John F. Kennedy. His bust of Jimmy Carter was on the cover of Time magazine.
He also created many intimate portraits of friends and family, nudes, and other smaller works.
Estern graduated from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. After graduation he began to make dolls, notably the Patti Playpal line for Ideal Toys, for which his wife created the wardrobe. Within a few years, this financial success enabled him to turn from dollmaker to full-time sculptor, working out of a studio in Brooklyn Heights, a foundry in a medieval town of expatriate artists in Northern Italy and, for his last decades, at his beloved studio in rural West Cornwall, Connecticut.
Estern’s children, filmmaker Tory Estern Jadow and cinematographer Evan Estern, curated this show. Their selection of objects includes pieces for purchase, with part of the proceeds benefitting the library. The opening reception is September 13 from 5 to 7 pm. Registration requested for reception at the event website (https://cornwalllibrary.org/events/).
The Cornwall Library
30 Pine Street
Cornwall, CT 06753
Thursday, September 11
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Join us for an artist talk and opening reception of Inkpa Mani’s “The Land Remembers Us.” This body of work emphasizes the land as an active participant in cultural memory and belonging. The paintings feature energetic gestures and colors that evoke sacred geographies and spiritual resonance. The stone sculptures, carved from found stone, act as carriers of ancestral memory. Together, these works represent land not as a backdrop, but as a keeper of identity and spirit.
Cost | FREE
Light refreshments from Wisdom’s Kitchen served
Wisdom House Retreat and Conference Center
229 E Litchfield Rd
Litchfield, CT 06759
https://www.wisdomhouse.org/art-gallery
Are you ready to step back in time and uncover the mysteries of Washington’s history?
The Annual Washington History Mystery event is Saturday, November 1. This event is an all Washington experience!
Step inside the Gunn Memorial Library & Museum for an immersive adventure like no other. Your mission: journey through 10 specially designed activities to unravel the mysteries of our past. This puzzle-solving, brain-teasing event is a fun time for all!
Explore 10 activities – each activity is rooted in our unique historic collection. Solve a puzzle, complete a challenge, all to discover Washington life and the lives and times of past residents in this uniquely interactive experience.
Will you be the one to solve all 10? Registration opens on our website October 1.
Washington History Mystery is Saturday, November 1 with ticketed group sessions between 5:00pm-7:00pm. This is a free program.
Gunn Memorial Library and Museum
5 Wykeham Road
Washington, CT
As part of a very intimate group of no more than 30 people,
Acclaimed Magicienne Belinda Sinclair invites patrons to experience a time when famous female conjurors captivated their guests by performing impossible feats of magic. Drenched in fascinating history, the thrilling two hour journey into the past will come to life with Belinda re-creating astonishing displays of legerdemain.Fusing magic with allegory, Sinclair performs her theatrical magic and captivating stories, with an interactive, entertaining, historical journey into the life and art of magic and its female masters.(SOO MUCH FUN)
For adults 12 and up.
Fridays and Saturdays until the end of September
From 7:30-9:30 pm
Reservations required.
$55.000 per person
917 860-1640
THE HUGHES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
35 Lower River Road
West Cornwall, Connecticut 06796
http://Conjurecamp.com
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens is pleased to present an art exhibition, “Easier Said Than Done: From Inspiration to Resolution,” featuring the works of Frank Greco. This show is on view beginning Friday, September 26.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 27 from 3 to 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Greco is a sculptor and painter who strives to bring out uniquely personal experiences so that others may recognize something deeply profound and personal to relate to from their own experiences.
This show will remain on view through Sunday, October 19. Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens
One Green Hill Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794
https://judyblackpark.org/art
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