Events

The Connecticut River Museum welcomes you to a very special housewarming event! The Lay Home, located just up the street from the Museum building, is a deeply historic property with centuries of stories to tell. In celebration of recent renovations to the Lay Home, the Museum is hosting a full day to enjoy and explore this cornerstone of Essex. At 10 a.m., local yoga instructor Hayley Cann will lead a guided yoga session in the Lay Home’s multipurpose room. Beginners are encouraged to attend. Please bring your own yoga mat. Following yoga, there will be a 30-minute guided house tour at 11 a.m. led by the Museum’s Executive Director Elizabeth Kaeser. Then, there will be additional 30-minute open house tours between 2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. This program will act as a preview for future Lay Home tours and will explore the process behind telling the story of a building with rich, layered history. At 5 p.m., the multipurpose room will host a musical performance by Ben Cosgrove, a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. As the Museum’s new Artist-in-Residence supported by grant funds from the Wolf Kahn Foundation, Ben will create music inspired by the Connecticut […]