SBHS News
Membership in the Salmon Brook Historical Society, 208 Salmon Brook Street, offers many benefits including free tours, newsletters, annual dinner in April, Christmas house tour and Wassail party in December and the opportunity to learn and help preserve Granby history. The society welcomes everyone. You do not need to be a Granby native or own an old house; just care about the history of Granby. Visit salmonbrookhistoricalsociety.com or stop by the museum on Thursdays between 9 a.m. and noon for an application.
Research Library (Preservation Barn) is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon or by appointment by calling 860-653-9713. Research fee is $25 per hour.
Museum Store (Enders House) is open on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Items for sale can be viewed on the website and include books, maps, mugs, notecards, jigsaw puzzle and other Granby items.
Summer Museum Tours: After two years of closure due to the pandemic, SBHS is dusting and cleaning the different buildings, sprucing up the gardens and putting out the welcome mat for this summer’s museum tours. The tour includes the Abijah Rowe House, Weed-Enders House, Cooley School and Colton-Hayes Tobacco Barn.
Our temporary summer exhibit housed in the Preservation Barn includes a collection of textile items including an interesting mixture of ladies’ hats, embroidered linen coverlets, aprons, an early treadle sewing machine and more. Also on temporary display is a political exhibit featuring pins and memorabilia from past elections. The green silk dress made by Granby-born Orpha Amelia Hayes, circa 1850, is on display in the Weed-Enders Victorian Parlor.
SBHS is open for tours each Sunday this summer (except July 3 and Sept. 4) from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission is free to members, $5 for adults, $2 children under 13 and seniors over 65 with a maximum of $12 per family. The museum store will be open during tour hours.
Fall Flea Market is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the society’s grounds, rain or shine. Donations to the society’s booth are welcome on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon at the Preservation Barn. Please contact Dave at 860-653-3965 for vendor information.
Men’s Breakfast
The next Granby Men’s Breakfast is 8:30 a.m., Friday, July 8, where you will be served a hot breakfast. The program starts at 9 a.m. with Dr. Peter Barwick, cardiology specialist—he will take audience questions.
Every participant must be a current member of the Granby Senior Center. Members can call the Senior Center at 860-844-5352 to reserve a spot. If not yet a member, you may join in person at the Senior Center or online. After you have become a member, your card will be available at the breakfast, where you pay $3.
Men of any age interested in joining should send contact information to gmensbkfst@gmail.com be added to the invite list for the next breakfast meeting.