Waterford's Full Weekend Guide: Harvest To Hearth On Jordan Park Green And Tibetan Thangka Painting

WATERFORD, CT — The Waterford Historical Society opens its Jordan Park Green buildings Saturday for a look at Thanksgiving in the 1840s, with hearth cooking and a working cider press. At the library, an anthropologist talks about the Tibetan painters of sacred thangkas.

This Weekend's Arts & Entertainment

• Fire Cider Workshop, Friday, Nov. 6, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Clinical herbalist Nora Toomey leads a session on the folk remedy, and each participant leaves with a pint jar. There's an $8 supply fee paid in advance, and as of this week the library listed one spot open. Waterford Public Library, 49 Rope Ferry Road
• Harvest to Hearth: Thanksgiving in 1840s Waterford, Saturday, Nov. 7, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Dirty Blue Shirts living historians cook roasted chicken and corn bread at the hearth in the Beebe-Phillips House, the antique cider press runs in Stacy Barn and the historic buildings are open, with games on the green. It's free and family-friendly. Jordan Park Green, 65 Rope Ferry Road
• Making Buddhist Images in the Modern World: Stories from Tibet, Saturday, Nov. 7, 3 to 4 p.m. A screening of the 26-minute documentary "A Woman Who Paints Thangkas" is followed by a talk by anthropologist Ming Xue, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, drawing on her 2025 book. Waterford Public Library, 49 Rope Ferry Road

Step back to an 1840s Thanksgiving, then travel to the Tibetan Plateau, all within a block of Rope Ferry Road.

You can post your local event here.