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Mar

6

TO Mar 20

MUSEUM COURSE – Archaeology in Deerfield: Digging Deeper into Deerfield’s Histories

March 6, 2024 - 7 PM - March 20, 2024 - 8 PM

The Museum Course is held over three sessions: March 6, 13, and 20, 2024, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. via Zoom. 

Did you ever want to be an archaeologist? Do you want to know more about local history and archaeology? What kinds of archaeological projects have been conducted in Deerfield? Register for the Museum Course this March and find out more about historical and precolonial  archaeology.

Mar

24

Led by an Evil Spirit: Lesser-Known Witches of New England

March 24, 2024 - 2 PM - March 24, 2024 - 3 PM

January 28, February 25, March 24
Outside of the well-known witchcraft outbreak at Salem and Essex County in 1692, there were other cases that resulted in trials of people suspected of covenanting with the Devil in order to harm their neighbors. These crises reveal fascinating details about community life in seventeenth-century New England towns and the fears and recriminations that sometimes resulted in the executions of those deemed to be servants of Satan. All lectures are free of charge and will be presented virtually via Zoom webinar. Registration required.

May

1

TO Aug 4

Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North

May 1, 2024 - 9 AM - August 4, 2024 - 4 PM

Flynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)

Image: Joseph Shoemaker Russell (American, 1795-1860). Dining Room of Abraham Russell, New Bedford, c. 1840s. Watercolor on paper, 6.5 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.9 cm.) New Bedford Whaling Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward K. Simpson, 1962.4.13. Image courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Coming to Historic Deerfield in May, 2024! Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North will be on view at Historic Deerfield’s Flynt Center from May 1 to August 4, 2024.

As a corrective to histories that define slavery and anti-Black racism as a largely Southern issue, this exhibition offers a new window onto Black representation in a region that is often overlooked in narratives of early African American history.

Through 125 remarkable works including paintings, needlework, and photographs, this exhibition invites visitors to focus on figures who appear in—or are omitted from—early American images and will challenge conventional narratives that have minimized early Black histories in the North, revealing the complexities and contradictions of the region’s history between the late 1600s and early 1800s.

May

1

TO Nov 30

Vermont Furniture from the Alley Collection

May 1, 2024 - 9 AM - November 30, 2026 - 4 PM

Vermont Furniture from the Alley Collection features an impressive array of 18th and 19th-century Vermont furniture recently donated to Historic Deerfield by collectors William and Patricia Passmore Alley. The exhibition highlights both published and unpublished material from the Alleys’ collection, showing how these objects reveal varied techniques and ornament as well as the characteristics of the environment in which they were made. Many examples in the exhibit retain their vibrant, original surfaces and are organized according to their decoration: solid and highly figured native wood, painted wood, ornamental painting on metal and glass, and veneer and inlay.

May

18

TO May 19

Wooly Wonders – Heritage Breed Sheep Weekend

May 18, 2024 - 6 AM - May 19, 2024 - 12 PM

Join us for a celebration of rare, historic and adorable heritage breed sheep, textiles, and wool-processing in New England. See heritage breeds of sheep as well as demonstrations, craft activities, games, and vendors selling wool-related wares.

Jun

28

TO Jun 29

Dublin Seminar 2024 – Into the Woods: New England Forests in Fact and Imagination

June 28, 2024 - 8 AM - June 29, 2024 - 5 PM

Historic Deerfield (+ Google Map)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded in 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of its 2024 gathering,  Into the Woods: New England Forests in Fact and Imagination, to be held at Historic Deerfield June 28-29, 2024.