Sunday Open Hours: Fall For History

Children can card wool, work a loom, and haul a hay bale up with a rope and pulley.

The center's Fall For History Sundays throw the whole site open. In the historic Coley Barn sits Weston at Work, a new interactive exhibit on the history of agriculture, manufacturing and textile production in Weston and across Connecticut, built around rare Bradley Axe tools, farming implements, a working loom and a great many historic images. It is deliberately hands on rather than behind glass.

In the Visitor's Center there are three more exhibits running: Sarah Treadwell: Connecticut Mom, American Patriot, on a local woman whose family took an active part in the Revolution; Local Patriots & Loyalists of the American Revolution, on the families from Weston, Fairfield, Wilton, Norwalk and Ridgefield who split over which side to take; and oil paintings by thirteen Weston Middle School eighth graders made for America's 250th.

Different this Sunday. There is a free Native American presentation outside on the lawn, and the Coley House is closed for tours for the day. If the 1940s house is what you came for, one of the other Sundays is the better bet.

What it costs. $5 for adults and $3 for children 5 to 17, free for members and for any child four or under. They take cash, card or check at the door.

Where to go. The center is at 104 Weston Road, but parking and the entrance are off High Acre Road, not Weston Road, and everyone checks in at the Visitor's Center. Worth knowing before you circle the block.