Bring your friends and family for historic fun at The East Granby Historical Society’s Coach & Wagon Rally on Saturday, October 8th. About twenty historic coaches, wagons and other vehicles will participate in the event to be held at East Granby Farms from 10AM – 4PM.
In addition to the vehicles, the event will also include donkey rides, fiddlers, a barbershop quartet, artisan displays including decoy maker Paul Morrissette and The Clock Man, food vendors, and an Antiques Appraisal Fair.
Farms and collectors from surrounding towns and as far away as Belchertown, Mass., will be participating, some with horses or miniature horses. In addition to the Historical Society’s 1847 Concord coach, there will be a three quarter scale Wells Fargo coach, a Brewster phaeton, a Hercules work wagon, tip carts, a hearse, a cigar wagon, sleighs, pony carts, a peddler wagon, a meat wagon, a doctor buggy, and even an 1895 steamer fire wagon from the Rockville Veterans Firemen.
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The Appraisal Fair will run from 11AM - 2PM. You can get your treasures evaluated for a small fee which will benefit the Historical Society. Volunteer appraisers include: David Kimball of Stagecoach Galleries in Granby (paintings); Tami Zawistowski of Resource Books, LLC in East Granby (books and ephemera); Ed Zawistowski of Gallery One in East Granby (jewelry and coins); and Michael J. Tomasiewicz, an auctioneer from Harwinton (general antiques).
For more information about the event or to volunteer to help, contact Bill Westervelt at 860-658-7225.
