The Handy House Artisan Fair

Date: September 20, 2025 Time: 10:00 am  to  3:00 pm 202 Hix Bridge Road 10 AM – 3 PM Saturday September 20, 2025 (rain date Sunday September 21) Meet Westport’s craftsmen, peruse the Vintage Market, enjoy musical entertainment! Handy House Artisan Fair, organized by the Westport Historical Society, showcases local craftspeople who specialize in skills […]

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Milk Bottle Collectors Day (and agricultural whatsits)

Date: August 2, 2025 Time: 10:00 am  to  1:00 pm At the Handy House, 202 Hix Bridge Road, Westport MA Calling all milk bottle collectors! Local collectors (Westport/Dartmouth and surrounding towns) of vintage milk bottles are invited to gather at the Handy House to share information about their collection and to meet others who share […]

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Cyanotype Workshop

Date: July 30, 2025 Time: 10:00 am  to  2:00 pm $60 per student,  pre-register at eventbrite. Tina Tryforos is a photographer and educator, specializing in the historic photographic process of cyanotypes, the Prussian blue image invented in 1842 by Sir John Herschel. Students will learn how to set up a cyanotype exposure, potential materials such […]

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Kids Make History

Date: Every Wednesday until August 27, 2025 Time: 10:00 am  to  1:00 pm Handy House, 202 Hix Bridge Road 10 AM – 1 PM Wednesdays in July/August Drop in for some creative crafts and family fun! Make a corn husk doll, create a sunprint, make your own Macomber turnip, and take an adventure along the Heritage […]

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Handy House and Farming exhibition open

Date: Every Saturday until September 20, 2025 Time: 10:00 am  to  1:00 pm 202 Hix Bridge Road, Westport MA Lives on the Land: An exhibition highlighting the stories of Westport’s farming families This exhibition focuses on the 20th century, an era that began with 400 farms and ended with fewer than 30 farms. This is not […]

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Handy House and Farming exhibition open

Date: Every Wednesday until September 20, 2025 Time: 10:00 am  to  1:00 pm 202 Hix Bridge Road, Westport MA Lives on the Land: An exhibition highlighting the stories of Westport’s farming families This exhibition focuses on the 20th century, an era that began with 400 farms and ended with fewer than 30 farms. This is not […]

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Antiques Show and Tell with Stephen Fletcher

Date: April 5, 2025 Time: 2:00 pm  to  3:30 pm 2 PM Saturday April 5, 2025 at the Westport Grange 931 Main Road, Westport MA ALL APPRAISAL SLOTS HAVE BEEN RESERVED You are invited to bring interesting antiques and curios to the library where antiques and Americana expert Stephen Fletcher will attempt to solve the […]

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Westport’s Farming Families History Day

Date: March 15, 2025 Time: 12:00 pm  to  4:00 pm Tell us your story! 12pm – 4pm Saturday March 15, 2025 (Drop in any time!) Westport Grange #181 931 Main Road, Westport MA 02790 You are invited to share stories and to bring objects, photographs, and documents relating to Westport’s farming heritage. We will scan […]

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Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman

Date: February 22, 2025 Time: 2:00 pm  to  3:30 pm A Biography by Jeffrey A. Fortin 2 PM Saturday February 22 at the Westport Public library Meet the author of a new book on Paul Cuffe published by University of Massachusetts Press. Jeffrey A. Fortin has crafted a beautiful, moving portrait of this important maritime […]

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Halloween at the Handy House

Date: October 26, 2024 Time: 10:00 am  to  2:00 pm Saturday, October 26 10:00-2:00, 202 Hix Bridge Road, Westport (Rain date Sunday October 27) Ghosts, goblins, witches, and skeletons have taken over Westport’s historic Handy House! The air is filled with spooky spirits up to no good. Evil spirits have poisoned Dr. Handy’s healing potions. […]

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