New! Doorways of Deerfield features 16 historic houses and buildings throught the village of Old Deerfield. Under each doorway is the name of the house or building. Photographer Dan Dougherty. Poster comes rolled ready for you to frame. 18” x 24”
Slow Food/Sustainable Gardens
February 26, 2012
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Deerfield Community Center (formerly White Church Community Center)
In 2012, the Historic Deerfield Open Hearth Cooking Program will enter its 25th year of service! To celebrate this special occasion, scholars and experts will come together on three Sundays this winter to delve into the savory and seductive world of food and gardening in a winter lecture series titled “Gathering, Gardening, Preserving: Exploring Local Food in New England.”
“Slow Food/Sustainable Gardens,” will be delivered by John Forti on February 26. Forti is Curator of Historic Gardens and Landscapes at Strawbery Banke Museum, and wrote the forward tof American Household Botany: A History of Useful Plants, 1620-1900.
Free and open to the public.
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The 2012 summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North,” is jointly sponsored by Historic Deerfield and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA). All presentations are free and open to the public.
Historic Deerfield museum is proud to announce the recipients of its annual awards: Edwin S. Grosvenor, Henry “Hank” and Mary Flynt, Roger and Meredith Parsons, and Kevin Sweeney.
Programs
Join us to have fun practicing with a quill pen, learn (or re-learn) the art of cursive handwriting, and write a letter to someone special. Participants should bring the address of a special recipient so they can write and send a special hand-crafted letter. Included with general admission.
In recognition of National Preservation Month, Historic Deerfield will offer new architectural walking tours led by experienced Guides focused on building exteriors along our mile-long street that retains aspects of the built environment spanning the last 300 years.
In 2012, the Historic Deerfield Open Hearth Cooking Program enters its 25th year of service! To celebrate this special occasion, come and watch open hearth cooks prepare “celebratory” food and beverage. Included with general admission.
Learn about heirloom vegetables and have fun outdoors as you help us plant and tend the History Workshop Garden. Included with general admission.
Let us help you say “Thank You” to all the great fathers, grandfathers (even great grandfathers!) out there who deserve a special treat on Father’s Day.
This summer we will explore the ancient and versatile flax plant and its many uses. Try your hand at braking, scutching and hetcheling last summer’s crop and learn about all the steps and tools involved in dressing flax¾or turning it into cloth. Make paper from flax fibers, and handcraft a journal to take home. Included with general admission.
See demonstrations of flax dressing with Gina Gerhard. Included with general admission.
Join an open hearth cook to learn about herbs and seasonal vegetables that were used for both food and flavor in the past. Included with general admission.
Joanne Pope Melish, Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky, will give the first of the three lectures in the summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North”on July 12.
The second lecture in the summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North” will feature Alexandra Chan, Site Archaeologist, co-presenting with Thomas Lincoln, Executive Director, both from the Royall House and Slave Quarters, Isaac Royall House Museum, Medford, Mass. on July 19.
Warren R. Perry, Professor of Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University and Archaeological Director of The Archaeology Laboratory for African and African Diaspora Studies, will deliver the lecture in the summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North” on July 26.
See historic trades demonstrations of tailoring with Henry Cooke. Included with general admission.
See letterpress printing demonstrations with Carl Darrow at the John Wilson Printing Office. Included with general admission.
Join Historic Deerfield President Philip Zea on a trip through Pennsylvania and Delaware to view remarkable art, antiques, and exquisite gardens. Tour three premier museums and two amazing private antiques collections, both featured in Antiques and Fine Art Magazine.
Exhibitions
Examine one of the finest collections of early American textiles and costumes ever assembled!
Explore a dazzling array of masterworks by famous American cabinetmakers including Duncan Phyfe and Honoré Lannuier, Samuel McIntire, John and Thomas Seymour, and John Townsend. Included with general admission.
View 75 powder horns that offer a wealth of documentary information about the original owners and carvers who created them.
Be one of the first to visit this new exhibition features objects drawn from Historic Deerfield’s collection, many with local histories. On view through February 17, 2013.
Museum Store
Support Historic Deerfield with this 100% cotton twill cap.
80 pages of full color photos by Richard Cheek celebrating the four seasons in the historic village.
Hand hooked wool rug depicting 7 of our village buildings in Springtime. Taken from a painting by Anne Bell Robb, a MA artist. 2’ x 3’.
