Events

Bring your project, a comfy folding chair or blanket, and enjoy the grounds of the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden! Grounds fees will be waived for those who have knitting projects with them.

Join us as the environmental educator from White Memorial presents an informative talk on how to best create a backyard habitat for the wildlife that helps our gardens. You might even meet a “critter” or two!

This family-friendly event invites history enthusiasts across generations to bring a blanket and your “listening ears” to the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden to enjoy a story hour in our historic garden. Join us each week as we read children’s stories related to different eras throughout history. Grounds fees are waived for those joining story time.

This family-friendly event invites history enthusiasts across generations to bring a blanket and your “listening ears” to the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden to enjoy a story hour in our historic garden. Join us each week as we read children’s stories related to different eras throughout history. Grounds fees are waived for those joining story time.

This family-friendly event invites history enthusiasts across generations to bring a blanket and your “listening ears” to the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden to enjoy a story hour in our historic garden. Join us each week as we read children’s stories related to different eras throughout history. Grounds fees are waived for those joining story time.

This family-friendly event invites history enthusiasts across generations to bring a blanket and your “listening ears” to the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden to enjoy a story hour in our historic garden. Join us each week as we read children’s stories related to different eras throughout history. Grounds fees are waived for those joining story time.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Martha Hall Kelly’s best-selling book "Lilac Girls" at the museum that first inspired her! The grounds will be open for exploration throughout the afternoon, with representatives from Connecticut Landmarks and other local businesses and organizations sharing information, offering themed photo ops, and facilitating activities. Site administrator Peg Shimer and author Martha Hall Kelly take guests on a special house tour to point out some of Caroline’s favorite places in the summer home her family called “The Hay.” Tea and conversation will both be flowing in the kitchen where Caroline Ferriday gathered with the ladies of Ravensbrück in 1958 when The Penny Farthing Tea Room and Bakery provides tea and light refreshments. And you can visit Caroline's childhood playhouse to have your books signed by the author.