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- WOMEN OF WESTPORT POINT: Mercy Etta Baker: Artist, Poet, and Inventor
- The Russell Walters Collection: Lobstering, scalloping, and more
- The Story of Two Inspirational Ministers and Birders of Westport Point, Massachusetts by David Cole
- Marion Gifford Borden Pineau (1916 – 2002)
- Dorothy Wertz (1938 – 2003)
- Blanche A. Paull (1890 – 1983)
- Glenda Kirby Taber Broadbent (1918-2014)
- Dorothy Robbins Curtis (1910-2008)
- Enella Benedict (1858 – 1942)
- Lois Tripp Slocum (1898 – 1951)
- Buried treasure on Horseneck
- Move Over Barbie, GI Joe is Westport’s Toy Story
- Hurricane Carol 1954
- Women of Westport Point
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Swordfishing, Westport Massachusetts
- Old House Ghost Stories – Call for storytellers
- Bonnets, Bustles, and Bloomers
- History of Westport Grange #181 and Watuppa Grange #365
- French Canadian Families of Westport and Dartmouth
- Stories in Stone Cemetery Tour 2023
- Setting the Stage: The Westport Grange Historic Painted Curtain
- Looking back at Covid-19 – Eight Perspectives from April 2020
- The Practice of Medicine in Westport from 1811 to 1843
- The Westport Harvest Festival Painting Collection
- SOME NATIVE-AMERICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONNECTIONS OF THE WAINER FAMILY
- Westport’s Little League Baseball team 1964
- West. Trafford and Co. Wonderful Discovery
- Gleanings from the Past
- The Allen’s of Horseneck Beach in the 1900s
- Do you remember Butler’s Donuts?
- The Southard Family of Westport Point & Their Estate Home “the Junipers” By Maurice E. May
- Good Fences: Westport’s borders, boundaries and stone markers
- Abstract art or frugal flooring?
- Westport’s not-so-horrible Parade of Horribles
- The emancipation of Kofi Slocum (c. 1718 – 1772)
- May Baskets
- Sherman Collection: A North Westport treasure trove of history
- What’s in store for the Bell School?
- Jessie Luther: Artist, Teacher, Pioneer
- Envisioning Paul Cuffe
- A Westport Farmer Goes Whaling by Maurice E. May
- Westport Town Farm Photo Gallery
- Over the hill to the poor house: Revisiting the story of the Westport Town Farm
- Harriet Powers Pictorial Quilt
- Frederick Allen’s whaling voyage on the Mexico 1837- 1838
- Listen to the bell!
- Hix Bridge Road by Richard Gifford
- SOME WESTPORT AND DARTMOUTH ROADS DESCRIBED IN “OLD DARTMOUTH HIGHWAY RECORDS 1705-1786″ by Richard Gifford
- George Sisson Civil War letters
- Crossing the River
- On the Road: Tracing the history, local lore and controversies of Westport’s highways, ancient ways, streets and corners
- Jim Pierce
- James Vaughan
- Westport’s Poetic History: In Celebration of National Poetry Month
- John Stevens of Annibon Island and Westport, Massachusetts
- Westport Women Taking Care of History
- A Celebratory Bell Ringing
- The Country, Memories of the Wainer Farm on Drift Road by George H. Wortham Jr.
- A Westport Sign of Mystery
- Remembering Mouse Mill Pond by Claude Ledoux
- The Buildout at Westport Point in the 1770s by David C. Cole and Richard Gifford
- Early Schooldays in Westport
- Jigsaw puzzles for the Holidays!
- THE HANDY HOUSE HALLOWEEN TRAIL
- Descendants of Zip White
- An Historic Sketch of Coxet and the Richmond Family by Henry B. Worth
- North Westport School
- Small Town, Big History: Perspectives on Westport’s Past
- Paul Cuffe, a Brief Biography
- Native American Place Names associated with locations in Westport MA
- Native Americans in 19th-century Westport
- John Hart
- A Westporter at the Panama Canal
- Reverend Basil Hall
- Albert Cambra, Fred Hart, Mabel Crosby
- “Degeneracy, Profligacy, and Imbecility” – American Politics in 1800
- Valentine’s Day cards
- Trail
- John S. Babcock Miniature Furniture Collection
- Westport’s Gilded Age: The Rise and Fall of the Charlton Estate
- A HISTORY OF WESTPORT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY CLAUDE LEDOUX
- The Consolidation of Westport Schools
- Then and Now Family Day
- The Macomber Family of Central Village
- Westport in 1962
- The Powder House, Head of Westport
- February Photos
- “Tarzan, Westport War Dog, Killed by Booby Trap Overseas” (1945)
- The Region Near Hix Bridge by Gladys Gifford Kirby published in 1925
- Ruby Devol Finch: Westport’s Folk Artist
- Voices from the Past
- WESTPORT POLISH FARM FAMILIES 1915 TO 1950
- The Devil’s Pocket Hole: Rum Running in Westport
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Vintage Market at the Handy House Artisan Fair
- Mission of the Holy Spirit had riveting history in Westport
- Mission of the Holy Spirit
- Tannery account book 1769-1777
- Herb Hadfield
- Now and Then, Images of Westport 100 Years Apart
- Wampanoag Families of Westport by R. Andrew Pierce
- Captain Pardon Cook of Westport
- Gooseberry: A Presentation by Greg Stone, June 2017
- Now and Then at Hix Bridge
- Film footage of Cadmans Neck, Westport River, Hix Bridge pre and post Hurricane of 1938
- A WESTPORT WHALEMAN GOES SLAVING PRESENTED BY TONY CONNORS
- New Insights into the Remarkable Life of Paul Cuffe and His Family
- The Blizzard of 1978 in Westport
- Photo Album
- The Seasider
- The Magic Bus to Westport History
- Stove Boats, Shipwrecks, and Cannibalism: The Perils of Westport Whaling Voyages
- Headwaters to Harbor: The Heritage of Water
- Westport Harbor Waltzes
- The daybooks of Doctor Ely and Doctor James Handy
- FUN SUMMER LEARNING AT FREE HANDY HOUSE FAMILY PROGRAM
- Treasures from Elvira’s Attic
- The Curious Case of the Concealed Shoes
- Photo album of cyanotypes
- Westport’s Shipbuilding Challenges
- Shipbuilding in Westport Overview
- Shipbuilding – Where Did They Build These Ships?
- Dartmouth and Westport Electric Railroad
- Hi-Way Casino
- How Westport Became a Town (1787)
- Class of 1943
- Historic Markers
- Some Architectural Descendants of William White
- Slavery in Westport
- The End of the Old Point Bridge and the Construction of Route 88
- The Adventures of a Westport Farmer
- How Westport Became a Town
- What are some of the small spaces in the house?
- What is the difference between Federal and Georgian style architecture?
- Why did Dr. Handy build an addition?
- Is this just a wall? Find out more.
- Look closer at the parlor wall…
- What is a beaufat?
- What is Georgian style architecture?
- What is left of the original 1712 structure?
- How were houses built in the 18th century?
- What did the house look like in 1712?
- What happened to Washingtonian Hall?
- Calendar of events 2015
- Foot Prints in the Sand
- “Whoso gives the motive, makes his brother’s sin his own.”
- Recent Archaeological Excavations at the Waite-Kirby-Potter Site
- Kit Houses of Westport
- Who Was Charlotte White?
- Secession – in Westport!
- Valentine Cards
- Civil War register of sick and wounded U.S. General Hospital Portsmouth Grove RI.
- Building a stronger collections catalog
- 18th century voices
- Eleanor Tripp’s newspaper clippings
- The Great Depression
- A closer look
- Handwritten Heritage
- Victory Mail
- Union School at Westport Factory
- Fourth of July parade
- Southern New England Country Fair
- Math Rules from a school book of David Sanford, 1792
- Signed, sealed and delivered! Will of William Gifford, 1683.
- Fire on Horseneck
- An ancient house on Sanford Road
- Lydia Macomber letter book
- Edward Yeomans
- Harold Wood
- Lincoln Tripp
- Eleanor Tripp
- Borden C. Tripp
- Archer and Della Tripp
- Allen G. Tripp
- Audrey Tripp
- John Swartz
- Mary A. W. Sowle
- Julius T. Smith
- Eleanor Simmons
- Jones Shannon
- Norman Sasseville
- Henry Sampson
- David and Rita Rozinha
- Marion Reed
- George Raposa
- William Pierce
- Richard Paull
- Mabel Crosby and Etta Allen Palmer
- Etta Allen Palmer
- Gerald E. Miller
- George Medeiros
- Daniel Meader
- Theodore P. Mead
- Carlton and Elizabeth Lees
- Albert Lees, jr.
- Hartley Howe
- Mae Magee Holmes
- John Hart
- Emma Hart
- Herbert Hadfield March 21, 1977
- Herbert G. Hadfield
- Dorothy Gifford
- Arlene Gifford
- Janice Lawton Field
- Eugene Feio
- Helen Ellis and Rosamond Peirce
- Richard Earle
- Alford Dyson
- Charles Costa
- Everett Coggeshall
- Milton Borden
- Alton and Isabel Boan
- Alice Blossom
- William H. Barker
- Benjamin Baker
- Ann Baker
- William Almy, jr.
- Roger and Dorothy Acheson
- Westport third grade visits the Point
- Tourism
- Religious Organizations
- Overview of Mills
- Maritime Activities
- Agricultural Activities
- African American Context
- Over view of Native American presence in Westport
- Mabel Crosby Ball interviewed by Mary Giles 1976
- Mary Hix Brown and Durant Brown interviewed by Mary Giles August 18, 1975
- Bojuma Farm milk bottle
- A Westport sampler
- Contact and Pre Contact Period
- A Handy House Thanksgiving
- Just how old is the Cadman-White-Handy House?
- “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without”
- Giant Still Discovered in Westport!
- Splice the Main Brace
- Annual Appeal
- Marjorie Robb and the sinking of the Titanic
- Handy House – Opening Doorways into Westport’s Past
- Handy House Architectural Study
- Open House at the Handy House on May 21st
- Handy House slideshow
- Photographs of the Cadman-White-Handy House
- The Cadman-White-Handy House
- The Handy House in the news
- What is unique about the architecture of the Cadman-White-Handy House?
- Eleanor Tripp on the Handy House, interviewed in 1976
- William Almy oral history interview 1975
- National Register
- Recent Archaeological Excavations at the Waite-Kirby-Potter Site
- Westport News
- The Washingtonians and the Nineteenth-Century Temperance Movement in Westport
- Westport news in the 1860s
- Thomas Mayhew writes a letter about Paul Cuffe
- Newspaper articles from 1863 New Bedford Evening Standard
- Paul Cuffe, Self Made Man
- Paul Cuffe Symposium Papers
- Marcia Drumwright’s account of Hurricane Carol
- Horseneck Beach Hurricane of 1938
- The Great Gale of September 23, 1815
- Storm tide
- Westport Harbor September 21st 1938
- Elizabeth Ann Mills’ account of her experience of the 1938 hurricane
- Marion Jennings Waring account of 1938 hurricane
- Roswell Brayton’s account of Westport harbor during 1938 hurricane
- The Gale of September 8, 1869
- The Great Colonial Hurricane August 25th 1635
- Anonymous account of 1938 Hurricane
- Clifford Ashley’s account of 1938 hurricane
- Introduction to 1938
- Cadman’s Neck: Westport’s 19th Century Tented City
- Alphabetical List of Westport Whaling Masters
- Photos of Whaling Masters on Westport Vessels
- Richmond Macomber to his brother, Capt. Pardon Macomber, Bark Tho. Chase of Westport Ms., June the 5th, 1849
- William Howland to his Brother, no date
- Darius Davis to his son, Westport, June 15th, 1862
- William C. Davol to his brother, Edward S. Davol, Westport, May 14th, 1841
- Philip Sanford to George L. Davis, on board Bark T. Ch(ase) of Westport, April the 28th, 1850
- Stephen Howland to his Brother, Westport, October 2nd, 1845
- HBC to her husband, October 3, 1858
- Owen D. Colson to Daniel Cushman, on Board Brig Mattapoisett, Atlantic Ocean, Brightman (Captain), New Bedford, Sept. 29th, 1844
- Cynthia Briggs to Captain Walter Briggs, July 27th, 1848
- Wing Home: 2042 Main Road
- 1998 Main Road
- Gifford Home: 1818 Main Road
- The Greek Revival Homes of Westport Point
- Whalers into and out of Westport – “Heave, Haul and Pull”
- The Howland Brothers: Coopers
- The Dead Letters
- Cory Store
- Shipbuilders, Allen and Sisson and the Kate Cory
- The Cory Dynasty
- ‘No place in the world like Westport Point’
- A Westport Man Goes Whaling – and writes many letters home
- Voyage of the Mexico and What Happened at Home
- Albert Gifford – The President Arrives in Westport
- Logbook of the Harbinger
- The Union – first and nearly last
- The Whaling Empire of Andrew Hicks
- Owner: Thomas Mayhew
- Owner: Henry Wilcox
- “Dealers in Risk” – Westport’s Whaling Entrepreneurs
- Head of Westport – Industry Gives Way to Gentility
- John Avery Parker: Westport’s Most Successful Pauper
- Launching the Vessels – Free Drinks All Day!
- Shipbuilding at the Head
- The Landing, Head of Westport
- Waterpower
- The Head of Westport – A Waterway to the World
- Down to the Sea in Ships – A film Inspired by a Westport Whaling Master
- Whaling Vessels out of Westport Point
- George and Mary: Burned!
- Whaling bark Catherwood: Shipwrecked!
- Whaling ship President: Attacked by Natives!
- Champion: Lost!
- Janet: The Crew Member’s Account
- Janet: The Captain’s Account
- Cannibalism? A Difference of Opinion.
- Dreadful Suffering at Sea! Westport’s Whaling Catastrophes
- Edward S. Davoll: A Westport Whaling Master
- A Westport Woman goes Whaling
- The Beginnings of the Westport Cotton Manufacturing Company
- Westport in the Arctic
- Whalers into and out of Westport
- Westport Roads
- Acoaxet Secession, 1926
- Gun-a-bit
- Howe to Roosevelt
- Charlotte White “The Pilgrim’s Song”
- Herman Melville in Westport?
- Howland House, Westport Harbor
- Abraham Manchester’s General Store
- Charlton’s Pond Meadow Estate
- Boating at Westport Harbor
- Road to Westport Harbor
- The Harbor Inn and Sowle’s Boarding House
- The Westport Factory
- Westport Cotton Manufacturing Company
- Central Village Improvement Society and Village Green
- Village Tree and Green
- Handy House
- Boating on the East Branch at Hix Bridge
- First Noquochoke Lodge
- R.F.D. No. 1 Westport, Mass.
- Westport’s Telephone Exchange
- Ezra Sanford House, South Westport
- South Westport Post Office and General Store
- Village at South Westport
- Working Wharf at the Point
- Bell School House
- Cape-style Homes at Head of Westport
- Lees Family working with Oxen
- Old Home Week at Head of Westport 1908
- Prize Winner in Old Home Week Parade 1908
- G.E.O. Club on Stone House Steps
- Dressed for Special Day.
- Sheep grazing in field near the water.
- Head of Westport Public Landing
- Lees Wharf Building
- Winner of Old Home Week Parade 1908
- Homes at Westport Point
- Main Road, Westport Point, looking north
- Relaxing by the Corn Field
- Name This School!
- Wind Powered Saw
- Watuppa Railroad Line
- Residences of Westport Factory Village
- Surfside Hotel at East Beach, Westport.
- Transportation to the Beach
- Chopping Firewood
- Workers Taking a Break
- Itinerant Sawyers
- Worksite
- North Westport Students and Teacher
- State Side School
- North Westport School
- Quansett Rocks at Horseneck’s East Beach.
- Beach houses with windmill.
- Haying
- Schooner on East Branch of Westport River
- The Earle School
- Walls of Westport Point.
- Old Gate and Wall.
- Catboat anchored in the Westport River.
- Feeding Time.
- Road Steam Roller with Driver
- Rock Crushing Operation
- High School at the Head of Westport
- Westport Barn and Silo.
- Lady Sailors.
- Two Seater
- Bell School Students
- A.G. Brownell Store
- Evangelical Meeting, Cadman’s Neck, in Cortez Allen’s Grove
- Cortez Allen’s Grove at Cadman’s Neck
- Shorrock Village Store Head of Westport 1905
- Bald Hill Road, South Westport
- Handy Hill from South Westport to Central Village
- Summer Beach Colony
- U.S.S. YANKEE Aground on Hens and Chickens Reef as seen from Horseneck Beach
- Shipwreck at Horseneck Beach
- Macomber General Store and Stable
- The Acoaxet Club
- Summer Residences at the Harbor
- The Acoaxet Chapel
- A.J. Potters Barn, Central Village
- Horse and Wagons at Potter’s Barn
- A. J. Potter General Store, Central Village
- Knotty Shingle Church, Central Village
- Adamsville Signpost, Central Village
- Westport Town Hall 1890
- Horse and Buggies at Potter’s, Central Village
- Docks at Westport Point
- Remingtons at South Westport
- Hix Bridge, South Westport
- Noquochoke Masonic Lodge, South Westport
- Second Christian Church, South Westport
- Westport Brass Band
- Pipes at Shorrocks
- Old Home Week
- Riverside Hall – Temperance Society
- Head of Westport – Post Office and General Store
- Bridge at the Head of Westport
- Docks at Westport Point 1895
- Boat House – View at Westport Point ca. 1900
- East Dock at Westport Point
- Cat Boat Fleet
- The Paquachuck Inn
- Mission of the Holy Spirit (continued)
- Lees Wharf
- Wharf Buildings and north end of Westport Point Bridge
- Westport Point Bridge
- LeValley House at Westport Point
- Westport Eyewitness Account of ’38 Hurricane
- Westport Point Methodist Church
- Westport Point Market
- Boating through the Surf at Horseneck Beach.
- The Wise Cottage
- Beach View Cottage
- Trafford Mansion at East Beach.
- Life-Saving Staff from Station 69 at Horseneck Point???
- High School at the Head or Head School
- River scene
- Friends Meeting House, Central Village
- Town records of 1860
- Town records of 1859
- Town records of 1858
- Town records of 1857
- Town records of 1856
- Town records of 1855
- Town records of 1854
- Town records of 1853
- Town records of 1852
- Town records 1851
- Town records of 1850
- Town records of 1849
- Town records of 1848
- Town records of 1847
- Another Tidbit from the Collections Corner
- Central Village c. 1890
- Lees Market 1954
- Harbinger Poetry
- Alewives
- Mission of the Holy Spirit
- Town records of 1846
- Town records of 1845
- Town records of 1844
- Town records of 1843
- Town records of 1842
- Town records of 1841
- Town records of 1840
- Town records of 1839
- Town records of 1838
- Town records of 1837
- Town records of 1836
- Town records of 1835
- Town records of 1834
- Town records of 1833
- Town records of 1832
- Town records of 1831
- Town records of 1830
- Town records of 1829
- Town records of 1828
- Town records of 1827-B
- Town records of 1827
- Town record of 1826
- Town records of 1825
- Town records of 1824
- Town records of 1823
- Town records of 1822
- Town records of 1821
- Town records of 1820
- Town records of 1819
- Town records of 1818
- Town records of 1817
- Town records of 1816
- Town records of 1815
- Town rcords 1814
- Town records of 1813
- Town records of 1812
- Town records of 1811
- Town records of 1810
- Town records 1809
- Town records 1908
- Town records 1807
- Town records 1806
- Town records 1805
- Town records 1804
- Town records 1803
- Town records 1802
- Town records 1801
- Town records 1800
- Town records 1799
- Town records 1798
- Town records 1797
- Town records for 1796
- Town records for 1795
- Town records for 1794
- Town records for 1793
- Town records for 1792
- Town Records for 1791
- Town Records for 1790
- Town Records for 1789
- Town Records for 1788
- Town Records for 1787
Events
- April Is for the Birds
- The Civil War in 3D
- Hurricane!
- Handy House Halloween
- Westport’s Swordfish Boat Captains and Fish Spotter Pilots
- Paul Cuffe: In Search of a New Land
- Handy House Artisan Fair and Vintage Market
- Undressed at the Handy House
- Undressed at the Handy House
- Undressed at the Handy House
- Handy House Open Day
- Handy House Open Day
- French Canadian Families of Westport and Dartmouth Get-Together
- Stories in Stone Cemetery Tour
- Water Power! Mills at the Head of Westport and Beyond
- Play Ball !!!
- I Make House Calls: Decades of Auction Discoveries with Steve Fletcher
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Halloween at the Handy House
- Annual Meeting
- Handy House Artisan Fair and Vintage Market
- Paul Cuffe: In Search of a New Land , An original play by Samuel Harps
- Polish Families of Westport Get-Together
- Kids Make History
- Tour of wedding dress display
- Tour of wedding dress display
- Tour of wedding dress display
- A Wedding Dress Retrospective
- Archaeology Walk
- Meet a blacksmith at the Handy House
- Meet a blacksmith at the Handy House
- Meet a blacksmith at the Handy House
- Herb Hadfield Pop Up Event
- Meet a blacksmith at the Handy House
- Lydia Macomber’s Letters: Exploring the history, culture and lives of deaf people in 19th-century New England
- Ask a Local Historian
- Mining Climate Clues from our Whaling Past presented by Professor Tim Walker and Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer
- A special virtual visit to see a piece of Westport history on display at the MFA Boston
- A History of Lees Market presented by Al Lees III
- A Westport Farmer Goes Whaling
- Handy House Trail Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Handy House Trail Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Handy House Trail Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Handy House Trail Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Handy House Trail Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Handy House Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Handy House Trail Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Handy House Trail Thanksgiving StoryWalk
- Westport Historical Society Annual Meeting
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Handy House Halloween Trail
- Handy House Open
- Gooseberry Island – from Wild to Wild
- Handy House Artisan Fair and Vintage Market
- A Conversation about the Wainer Family
- Westport’s Stone Walls
- Gravestone Cleaning
- The Early History of North Westport
- Dartmouth Quaker Archives
- A History of Westport Woods and Kirby House
- An Audience with Mayflower passenger Susanna White Winslow
- Paul Cuffe, His Purpose, Partners and Properties
- Historic Cemeteries of Westport
- The Life of a Westport Farmer
- Thanksgiving Storywalk
- Thanksgiving Storywalk
- Thanksgiving Storywalk
- Thanksgiving Storywalk
- Thanksgiving Storywalk
- Thanksgiving Storywalk
- Thanksgiving Storywalk
- Annual Meeting
- A Furious Sky, The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
- Book Launch: Small Town, Big History
- Gravestone Cleaning session
- Westport Gravestone Cleaning Group
- Opening Saturday May 2: The Handy House Heritage Trail
- Climate Change, Past, Present, Future: Mining Climate Clues from our Whaling Past presented by Professor Tim Walker and Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer
- Westport Cemetery Projects 2020
- POSTPONED Paul Cuffe: New Insights presented by David Cole
- Westport’s Mayflower Children and Grandchildren presented by Richard Gifford
- A Westport Postcard Collection presented by Peter Meggison
- Cleaning and Preserving Gravestones Hands-on Workshop
- Inside Apollo 11: A Westporter’s Story
- HALLOWEEN at Handy House
- Native American Dye Techniques
- Indigenous Cooking Demonstration
- Cleaning and Preserving Gravestones Hands-on Workshop
- Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project
- Then and Now Family Day
- Artisan Fair and Vintage Market
- Handy House open Wampanoag Heritage and Culture Exhibition
- Silhouettes for Your Family
- House Tour 2019
- “Went to the Devil: A Yankee Whaler in the Slave Trade” by Tony Connors
- Photo and Document Scanning Day
- The Giffords of Westport presented by Richard Gifford
- Land surveying, Ellis Brightman, and stone walls presented by Sean Leach
- A Walk Down Old Horseneck Beach presented by David Jones
- Annual Meeting: Black Flags, Blue Waters
- Sea Stories
- Westport’s Underground History
- Dr. Handy and the Mysterious Black Cat
- Westport History 101
- House Tour
- Artisan Fair
- Archaeology Day at Handy House
- Book Launch: Biographies of Westport Civil War Soldiers and Sailors of Westport
- Westport History 101 CANCELLED
- Westport History 101
- Westport History 101
- Wampanoag Families of Westport presented by R. Andrew Pierce
- Westport’s Founding Families presented by Richard Gifford
- Annual Meeting
- Handy House Artisan Fair
- Dr. Handy and the Spooky Spirits
- Paul Cuffe 1759-1817: Following His Footsteps
- Westport Summer Passport
- Westport Summer Passport
- Westport Summer Passport
- Westport Summer Passport
- Westport Summer Passport
- Westport Summer Passport
- Westport Summer Passport
- O’er the Wide and Tractless Sea: The Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt
- Summer Adventures for Kids
- House Tour
- American Eclipse
- Blossom Farm, a guided walk led by Michael Labossiere
- Delving into the Archives of Albert E. Lees Jr.
- Gooseberry: The Mystery, the Military, the Magic
- Handy House: Open Tours, Exhibition, Kids Activities
- Walking Tour of the Head of Westport
- Handy House Artisan Fair
- Postponed to Oct 1 Handy House Artisan Fair
- A Westport Whaleman goes Slaving presented by Tony Connors
- CANCELLED: A Westport Whaleman Goes Slaving
- Paul Cuffe’s Friends and Family presented by Richard Gifford
- Postponed to January 13 A Westport Whaleman goes Slaving presented by Tony Connors
- Hidden Histories at the Handy House: A look at Dr. Handy’s patient records
- Hidden Histories at the Handy House: “The Ancestors of Elizabeth Cadman White”
- Hidden Histories at the Handy House: Historian’s Tour
- Hidden Histories at the Handy House
- Dr. Handy and the Wonderfully Wicked Witch
- Rain date for Handy House Artisan Fair
- Westport Harbor Pop-Up Museum
- Annual Meeting: The Perils of Westport Whaling Voyages
- A Trip Down Route 6
- Old East Beach: Reconstructing the pre-hurricane beach through old photos, postcards and maps
- It’s All Greek to Me: Preserving the Howland House
- Handy House open, Backpack adventures, Treasures from Elvira’s Attic, Discovery House
- Handy House open, Backpack adventures, Treasures from Elvira’s Attic, Discovery House
- River Day Walking Tour
- HANDY HOUSE OPEN, BACKPACK ADVENTURES, TREASURES FROM ELVIRA’S ATTIC, DISCOVERY HOUSE
- Handy House open, Backpack adventures, Treasures from Elvira’s Attic, Discovery House
- Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
- Tour of Grays Gristmill
- Westport History 101 SOLD OUT!
- Winter History Forum
- Winter History Forum
- Winter History Forum
- Winter History Forum
- Winter History Forum
- Winter History Forum
- Hand Sewing Open House
- Hand Sewing Open House
- Pop Up Museum
- Dr. Handy’s Ghastly Ghost Hunt
- Annual meeting Slavery in Westport: Five Sketches presented by Tony Connors
- Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to study Westport’s historic landscape
- Handy House Artisan Fair rain date
- Handy House Artisan Fair
- The end of the (Old) Point Bridge and construction of Route 88: The coming of the modern age to Westport
- Farmstead Feast
- Researching the history of your historic house
- Documenting the history of the Westport Fire Department
- Hurricane Pop-Up Museum
- Telling Stories presented by Davison Paull
- Handy House garden volunteers meet and greet
- Handy House interpreter information session
- Handy House interpreter information session
- Tour of the Clifford Ashley House, 1838 Drift Road
- Pop Up Museum – Westport Our Habitat, Past, Present, Future
- River Day walking tour of Head
- How Westport Became a Town
- An Old House Primer
- “The Adventures of a Westport Farmer Who Goes Whaling in 1837”
- Westport at the Whaling Museum
- Bell School open 10 AM – 2 PM
- Bell School open 10 AM – 2 PM
- Bell School open 10 AM – 2 PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Handy House open 10 AM – 4PM
- Westport History 101 SOLD OUT
- Westport History 101 2PM – 4PM