Wineries

We have 33 wineries located in Connecticut with two closest to Henrietta House. Take the wine trail and have your wine passport stamped in order to win prizes!
http://www.ctwine.com/

• Sharpe Hill Winery offers tastings and vineyard walks as well as gourmet meals:  www.sharpehill.com

 

• Taylor Brooke Winery offers tastings and vineyard walks:  www.taylorbrookewinery.com

Performance and
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Exhibition Venues 

Connecticut is known for its unparalleled quality in its theatre, often previewing plays and musicals that go on to Broadway and off-Broadway productions. In addition, we have outstanding dance and music performances which you can see and/or in which you can participate almost every weekend. Hartford and New Haven have the largest number of theaters but you will find wonderful venues in almost every area of the state. We list those closest to Henrietta House.


Storrs: The UConn campus provides many performance and museum options:

• Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts provides music, theater, and dance: http://jorgensen.uconn.edu/
• Connecticut Repertory Theatre provides theater and puppetry: crt.uconn.edu
• Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry often features performances and exhibitions: bimp.uconn.edu
• The William Benton Museum of Art is UConn’s art museum and it has a coffee shop on the first floor:  http://benton.uconn.edu/
• Also take a peek at contemporary art: http://contemporaryartgalleries.uconn.edu/

Putnam: Drama, art, dance, music await you in this happening town

• Bradley Playhouse offers a variety of dramatic events: http://www.thebradleyplayhouse.org/
• http://www.silvercirclegallery.com/
• http://thecpac.org/
• The Stomping Ground is a new music, art, beer, and food venue: http://the-stomping-ground.com/
• Artique is an art bar and a place to bring out your inner artist:  http://www.artiqueputnam.com
• New England Acoustic Music Festival is a block party with events throughout the year: https://www.facebook.com/events/858574330925998/
• Check out Putnam’s First Fridays during the summer and fall: https://www.facebook.com/firstfridaysputnam/
• Putnam also has River Fires that are not to be missed, in fact see all the events that Putnam has on tap: http://www.discoverputnam.com/

Pick Your Own Farms
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and Farmers’ Markets

Many of these exist throughout the area; we list only those closest to Henrietta House

• Horse Listeners Orchard: http://horselistenersorchard.com/
• Wrights Orchard: http://wrightsorchard.com/
• Buell’s Orchard: http://www.buellsorchard.com/
• Lapsley Orchard:  http://www.lapsleyorchard.com/
• Palazzi Orchard: https://www.facebook.com/Palazzi-Orchard-137033092440/
• Raspberry Knoll Farm: http://www.raspberryknoll.com/
• Woodstock Orchards: http://www.woodstockorchardsllc.com/

Farmers’ Markets usually have music to provide the right atmosphere for shopping:

• Ashford Farmers’ Market, located on Rt. 44 across from the Town Hall, Sundays from 10 to 1, May through October: https://www.facebook.com/Ashford-Farmers-Market-456062064471661/?ref=page_internal
• Storrs Farmers’ Market, open all year, located across from the Mansfield Town Hall in spring, summer, fall and at the Mansfield Library in winter on Saturdays from 3-5 or 6 pm: http://www.storrsfarmersmarket.org/
• Coventry Farmers’ Market, this is the big one but it’s now changing directors so check back.

• A listing of all farmers’ markets in CT: http://ctnofa.org/FarmersMarkets.htm

Willimantic: Drama, music, history, and fun opportunities abound

• The Windham Theatre Guild offers interesting dramatic features: http://windhamtheatreguild.org/
• The Capitol Theater offers classes in all art areas and also productions; http://www.eastconn.org/index.php/act-main-page
• The Connecticut Railroad Museum has some big trains to look at: http://www.cteastrrmuseum.org/
• The Willimantic Historical Society has an antique house: http://www.windhamhistory.org
• The Windham Textile & History Museum gives us some sense of the wonderful mills around which the Northeast was built: http://www.millmuseum.org/
• Find other activities to do in Willi:  www.willimanticdowntown.org
• Do not miss third Thursdays in summer and fall and other events throughout the year: http://www.willimanticstreetfest.com/
• The Painted Ladies are queen in Willimantic; see these Victorian houses on revue in spring: http://www.victorianwillimantic.org/

• Stafford Springs: A sweet little town to explore
• The Palace Theater holds many music performances; http://www.thestaffordpalacetheater.com
• The community offers free outdoor and indoor music performances throughout the year: http://www.staffordct.org/history.php

Willington:

​Its historic district is beautiful

• The Mill Works hosts a community of artists who open their studios frequently throughout the year and it has recently opened a performance venue in The Packing House: http://themillworks.us/events.html

Throughout the area, artists open their homes and studios for visitors in the fall, don’t miss Artists Open Studios: http://www.aosct.org/